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I mean, but presumably you do know he's described as having relatively darker skin than we'd consider "white"? And dark hair and initially dark eyes? Or is this one of these "Rue"-type situations where some part of the audience hears "tan skin" or "brown skin" and just thinks he's a white with a...

Some cats and dogs can understand the threat of future action, understand the vague concept of "guilt" (as in future punishment for a thing, and how you should avoid being detected doing it), and so on. Monkeys take items from people and barter them back, even refusing "low" prices for them (in...

Oh there is though. And this is something I've seen reliably across virtually every DM I've ever played D&D with, and the same occurs in actual plays I read/watch/listen to as well. D&D DMs reliably treat spells far better than skills in practice - simply because the utility ones don't involve...

Zardnaar's analyses tend to be very focused on combat capability (not just whiteroom DPR, broader than that) rather than utility and flexibility, so definitely bear that in mind when reading them. I don't think that makes them valueless at all, but anyone's analysis is going to come from a...

I don't think that's actually true in my experience. I mean, we all have our own experiences, right, but in D&D, there's a key and vital difference between Rogue skill checks and spells, and that's that spells always succeed. So when the chips are down, and you really need to succeed, you use a...

This is a very interesting perspective. I don't know if I fully agree, but thank you for sharing it. Interesting that Monks aren't on the list! Would you say they're sufficiently improved in 2024/5.5 or would you never have had an issue with them?

I feel like an update of Oriental Adventures is 100% possible if they do three things: 1) Make damn sure it isn't called Oriental Adventures. 2) Make it about Japanese mythology specifically (including cutting or redoing any elements which aren't present in Japanese myth, but that's not very...

But it hasn't. That's my point. D&D hasn't ever "stuck to" that aesthetic. As I showed at some length, that aesthetic was essentially abandoned in 2E. So this wouldn't be "sticking to" an aesthetic, this would be completely abandoning the last 30+ years of aesthetic in favour of reverting to...

What's truly astonishing to me is that D&D still doesn't have a dog-person or wolf-person race. Like, at all. We've got multiple brands of cat-person and bird person, arguably two brands of cow-person, countless other anthro races, but no playable dog/wolf-people? I'm not objecting here - it's...

I profoundly hope you're busting my (space)balls here.

I often say "You can’t fight in here gentlemen, this is the war room!". But I have never watched Doctor Strangelove (I know, I know...) and I'm not even entirely sure what the plot is beyond that it's satire, involves nuclear weapons and maybe eventually a dude is riding a nuclear bomb whilst...

Given that they made Gith into Aberrations, when they share basically no characteristics with other Aberrations, just some history, it seems like they really should. (Honestly the refusal to dual-type species and monsters in 5E mystifies the hell out of me - you can just do it, and it doesn't...

Yeah exactly - it could even be a kind of "don't feed them after midnight" kind of deal, or like, what happens if a kobold eats dragon flesh or something.

I don't doubt either is true, but I would say that is probably unusual. I tried a Monty Python quote on a 35-ish nerd I know recently and he was frankly totally non-plussed, and when I cringefully explained it to him, he was like "Cool, cool, I've always heard that stuff was fun and should...

I'm a bit put off by this, personally. The level of staggeringly broad assumption here is truly remarkable. Just a real "everyone who plays D&D is basically like me and my friends" vibe for me. I think you will find, Horatio, that there a lot more and more diverse people who play D&D in heaven...

Not really imho. Cleric is a complicated set of fictional, mythohistorical, and mostly-Abrahamic religious concepts rolled into one. "Power from the outside" is not what defined the class at creation. Further, I would suggest that's never been at the core of the Cleric, never been definitional...

I think they can, actually. I agree - but that's because it rarely comes up in things like Critical Role or BG3 or even discussions of D&D, but there's a reason it rarely comes up - its very existence means there's no point in playing weird lighting games, so D&D isn't a game about lighting...

I think that's optimistic, but if they do half-arse it, I hope you're right.

Oh I was talking from a designer perspective primarily. A designer should understand what they're doing and why re: fiction and simulation and so on. When playing/running whilst it helps to understand the designer intentions you can often just go with the vibe as you say.

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