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I figured if anyone knew about the living wall, you'd be first up, but now I realize it was the stunjelly all along. "The real treasure was the friends we made along the way...that were absorbed by a living wall."

Ahahah, hopefully I would remember! Maybe that's what I was thinking... actually looks oh it's the stunjelly. Totally different from what I was thinking. It's an ooze that looks like a wall. Different from the (much cooler) Ravenloft monster too: Stunjelly

Fair point, in some ways magic items were how you "buffed" your character and gave them unique abilities. Nowadays...well now I watch Castlevania and see Alucard with his dancing sword and think "that guy is incredibly overpowered!" But a bog standard fighter with a dancing sword in early D&D...

Maybe that's where I saw it! I feel like there was a "living wall" spell or something that a cultist could summon, and it had tentacles and beak attacks. Probably not a standard monster though. I do vaguely recall the Ravenloft version.

Pretty sure. I mean of the list, the rover didn't make it (for obvious reasons due to copyright), living wall (probably showed up elsewhere though, maybe in Temple of Elemental Evil or something?), squonk (Fearsome Critters I guess didn't make it into D&D), and the withra (a "joke" monster). All...

Lew wrote an article about this (and discussed it back in White Dwarf #43!): Worlds of Design: The Problem with Magimarts

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That's what I call "edition anxiety" and it's not just you. It's caused publishers no end of angst over declaring compatibility with editions (D&D being the obvious example) and why it's problematic when a publisher doesn't want to declare a new edition, for this very reason.

I do sequences as part of a long-running campaign, but I'm discovering (as the years go by) they vary widely in tone. Trying to describe the campaign arc has been a journey: Deadly Candyland Disney's Haunted Mansion Time Travel with Dwarves and a Vampire Capitalist Gnome Televised Murder Games...

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BINGO. YouTube has entire countries it disqualifies as traffic from its internal metrics, but will charge customers and "count" them as clicks when it sells ads. Same here. There are now more bots than people constituting Internet traffic, we've passed the tipping point, and it's all starting...

Right. So in other words, FB would rather summarize than moderate, or in any way encourage comments to be useful. They of course ENCOURAGE this form of engagement, then minimize it, because it's garbage. Also, FB is reaping what it sowed here, many users can't distinguish what's on their page...

WOTC got rid of their own forums, arguably for the same reasons: "social media made it unnecessary." That was true then. But for better or worse, it ties communities to platforms that we don't own. Having a commentary platform doesn't magically make it better of course. I'm amazed by the sheer...

Prediction: Sites that expect you to ONLY read without any sort of community platform, who made a deal with the social media devil by just getting rid of their forums or comments sections (or rather, have them and ignore them so people can just yell at each other and don't actually engage with...

The fact that the article was launched the same day as the D&D Monster Manual preview is no accident. Can't break through the coverage that everyone else is doing (we're all covered by the same embargo)? Write something different that goes against the grain, baiting the numerous indie TTRPG...

Well done you on your goals overall, and congrats on #3 specifically! I think I've made it clear before that I work in recruiting (as a marketer, not a recruiter), so any gamer who needs help finding a job can always contact me on LinkedIn.

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Exactly, and the issue isn't necessarily the damage, it's how players (and thus their characters) treat the threat of it. Because we know the upper limits of damage ("30 feet? I can handle 18 damage easily!") it's a bounded threat. If the damage range was much wider (one of the solutions I...