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I think that's maybe an unintentionally misleading way of putting it. Mearls' team absolutely provided Larian with information about D&D and the Forgotten Realms, and I'm sure that involved some amount of what is technically "consultation", but I'm not aware of any suggestion that Mearls or his...

I tend to agree. Metacurrencies can be very useful for some games but D&D isn't, fundamentally, a metacurrency game. I disagree that there shouldn't be any default-included metacurrency at all, note, but agree that it shouldn't be mechanically or mathematically required for the game to work, and...

It's interesting to see the ideas people have, there are a lot of strong ones with some very weak ones mixed in, which uh, I guess that's D&D in a nutshell! Like, alignment, bless its heart, is no more going to make a comeback than racial level limits. The most successful edition sees truly...

Have been continuing an HM run through BG3, pretty far through Act 2 now, and it is fascinating that, even beyond any amount "harder" it makes the game (and HM doubles-down on that by also increasing the difficulty of fights, though they eventually patched in that difficulty level for non-HM...

Fascinating. I was in Bali a few weeks ago and I didn't notice any, but I might have just seen "Bucket in bathroom" as so normal that it didn't even consciously register. What they did have in all the bathrooms I visited was bidets of various kinds, including "just a sprayer on a hose next to...

If it helps your quest, Hard West II is also profoundly mediocre, just like, determinedly "kinda ok" and really gunning hard for that coveted "nothing to write home about" award. It's definitely not a "bad game" or something, just profoundly non-compelling on pretty much all levels.

I mean, do they still appear though? It seems like it's been a very long time since I saw a 1950s car in an actual new movie. Late 1960s? Now that's a bit different. I guess there was a late '50s car in the Barbie movie but I feel like that was for a different reason lol. I offer an alternative...

No, the hat chooses for him. I've read text just now. He's crapping his pants about it selecting Slytherin, but it doesn't ask him to make a choice, it makes a choice for him, possibly (unclear) because he's crapping his pants re: Slytherin, which makes sense. But the idea he just chose is an...

That's basically a massive retcon though isn't it? There's no evidence, textually, that it has anything to do with the student's choice (with the possible exception of Harry, who himself continues to insist the hat chose for him), until, years after the fact, after years of people, including...

The hardship (which was much more severe for Monroe - Rowling's accounts are demonstrably exaggerated and self-contradictory, and increasingly more dramatic and Dickensian the more she tells them - the earlier versions are much more plausible) may have made more Monroe empathetic and socially...

And yet a wholly correct one! It's right to stand by it! My unpopular HP opinion, also not one to bring up in casual conversation because it makes a lot of people uncomfortable, is that it was increasingly obvious as one went through the HP books that the writer was an extremely narrow-minded...

The big question with a lot of those is whether they actually are in a lane, or are in the lane they say they're in though. Like, what happens to Aunt May when a super-strong (like Dr Doom but not Hulk-ian levels) villain punches her in the gut (not specifically intending to kill her) is kind...

That's the thing. Many groups are sane, even when you're like 12 or 14 or w/e. Like, the worst thing that happened in our groups when we were teenagers was basically just occasionally two PCs/players getting so mad they duelled or something (which resolved the issue because usually both of them...

Ohhhhhhhhh that is interesting! I knew Gonzales left Guerilla (he lead-wrote HZD - including creating the setting etc. - and some of the sequel), but I didn't realize he was back. I see he says he's not working on FO:NV2, but that's kind of a given because it would require Bethesda to not be...

I mean, I don't think there's particularly "adolescent" about either author (who are very different too), and I think that might speak a little more to your attitudes re: sex/sexuality in literary works than what's actually written in the books themselves (I'd be fascinated to know what books...

For sure, but they tend to do so in a different way, and it doesn't get as much purchase. The dedicated D&D-hater community isn't generally hugely interested in individual releases it seems.

At the current rate I'm not convinced we'll have TES6 by 2035 lol. FO4 was definitely on the way to being a looter shooter already (it had literally randomized magic guns from Diablo 2-style random rares with random affixes, as well as the component-based randomization on other guns), so yeah...

I tend to feel the same way but here's the problem. Several books that did not seem very promising for like over half their length turned into some of the best I've ever read. In fact my personal favourite book, Imajica, I think if you had a 50-page rule an awful lot of people would drop just...

If we're wishing for the impossible, I'd love to see an incredibly thorough 5E take on Taladas, which was very true to the setting of the original, but with modern art and mechanics. They could even re-use the Purple Dragon Knight subclass as a the Dragon Knights of Taladas! I would buy it.

I mean, it's an official WotC D&D book. An awful lot of people will defend whatever they do, no matter how bad. So far we've no bottom limit to what will be defended in an official WotC D&D book (but see later in the next paragraph!). We've seen that at great length. The very worst, weakest...