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I still grimace when I remember the two players who, after being told that our next campaign was going to be Ravenloft-style gothic horror in tenor, decided to make characters who were tag-team luchador wrestlers. One spoke in faux-Spanish, and the other talked in a Hulk Hogan accent. The GM...

No, it's not. There are absolutely some ideas that can't be executed under a given framework of rules, and other ideas that can be executed under such a framework but not very well. A -2 penalty to a single ability score does not fall under either of those headings. The idea that they do is an...

When someone states their opinion of what's "bad" as if it were objectively true, and goes on to state that that their beliefs have been undeniably proven and that there's no debate to be had, it's important to remember that they're either trolling or a fanatic, and that there's nothing to be...

I'm not sure how you'd have a framework of rules that don't impose limits, if for no other reason than doing something in a given way rules out doing it some other way. Even if you have optional rules or other alternatives, using them results in not using whatever rule they replace. Any given...

There's a great discussion to be had regarding the aspects of the social contract that come into play when players build disadvantages into their characters, specifically with regard to their expectations (particularly in comparison to the GM's expectations) as to how frequently those...

Even if they allow for freeform character creation, there's still going to be things you can't do. A given option in a point-buy system, for instance, might cost more points than you have available at 1st level (or even for several levels after that). "I should be able to immediately play the...

This is a salient question, because the entire point of having rules is to impose limits. This necessarily means that some ideas won't work as well as others, and other ideas won't be workable at all, under any particular game engine. Yes, that means that a halfling will never be able to...

I recall this happening before, probably due to some tweaking of Xenforo; you should be able to change it back to twenty posts per page in your profile settings.

Except that in a fantasy world, it doesn't have to be a cultural thing. You can have all dwarves inherently knowing the dwarven language, regardless of whether or not they grew up around other dwarves, because the dwarven gods imbue them with that language prior to their birth. Or because...

I think it's important to remember that this is a question of how you approach the game, in terms of generating characters. While a lot of people seem to think that the default method is to have your character completely developed—in terms of identity, powers/abilities, and backstory—before you...

First the D&D slot machines, now D&D beer. Which vice will get the D&D brand next?

I agree, but there's a very vocal contingent who keeps arguing that this is quite literally impossible, because humans will always imagine sapient beings in the context of humanity.

You would mind citing a page number for where in the 2024 PHB that's explicitly allowed?

My Japanese isn't that great, it's very much "functional" rather than proficient, and given that the basic description covers most of what's in the video, there isn't much left untranslated besides the characters, so I'll go ahead give a quick overview of the five of them (in order of...

Even stranger, the third character bio (for the barbarian named Waniguma) is a half-orc, which I thought wasn't a part of 5E 2024.

I own copies of both, but they're still part of my "yet to read" pile.

I just finished reading The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo, an 1819 work by Uriah Derick D'Arcy, and even before I can get into a summary of the story or my thoughts on it, there are several notes which need to be made. For one thing, "Uriah Derick D'Arcy" is a nom de plume; the real...

At some point, it's entirely possible for the products/services of a private enterprise—or even a small group of private enterprises—to become so ubiquitous in the functions/transactions of everyday life that they're essentially acting as a de facto public utility. At that point, the government...

Even with the fall of Sigil, their VTT initiative, I suspect that WotC hasn't given up the proverbial ghost on trying to make digital offerings the future of D&D, so this is really no surprise. I just thought they'd try to be a little more circumspect than flat-out calling these DLC, though.