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Oh my God. You went to a help forum, posted code that looked nothing like any code that anyone using that language writes—taking about 20 lines to accomplish what most people could do in 1 line—and then screamed at people for saying it was very hard to read. And they were still trying to help...

I'm so glad I swore off PayPal after they cost me $100 about 20 years ago. It's some of the best money I ever spent.

It's incredibly intricate for reasons I don't really fathom. I don't know why they seem to oscillate between TWF being extremely simple and extremely complicated. There's the Light weapon property, which is where the two-weapon fighting base rules exist now: "When you take the Attack action on...

Yup, and 2014's GWF let you reroll once, which meant a d6 had the values of 3.5, 3.5, 3, 4, 5, 6 => 25/6 = 4.1666.... That meant a 2d6 weapon dealt 8.333.... So 2025's GWF for a 2d6 weapon is an average damage of 8, meaning it's +1 damage. But 2014's GWF for a 2d6 weapon used to be an average...

#2 makes as much sense to me as anything. There has often been a tendency for DMs to complain that the game is broken, especially when (a) other people play differently than you, and (b) they're clearly having a ton of fun! I still remember how genuinely surprised I was reading 1e and seeing...

The last errata was December 2021: D&D 5e Errata There might be another printing, but it's probably identical to the December 2021 edition.

Yeah, I'm not really interested in Gygax's story. I'm interested in the hobby and that transition. Yeah, I've heard this part of the story before. By itself I don't feel like it explains Gary's apparent divergence from the rest of the roleplaying community. Or, I guess, his failure to diverge...

I never tried any of Gygax's fantasy novels. Given how I generally feel about D&D novels, I assumed I wouldn't like them. But I do agree that when Gygax was in his prime he knew what he was doing running the game. The 1e AD&D DMG at once contains both some of the most timeless and most absurd...

That's true for at least 10 of the classes in the PHB. That's not the design level. That's the play level.

But that doesn't mean it's "extra". 2014 Ranger's Natural Explorer and Favored Enemy were amazing and quite powerful.... for a character that would be involved in a campaign where wilderness recovery was difficult, and actual resource attrition once you leave town had real teeth. But D&D...

OK, so I agree that HM on Ranger is not an inherently bad design, but this take is like calling the spell slots full casters gain at even levels "extra". Sure, you don't have to expend those slots, but it's not a "ribbon" feature like bonus languages. It has a real, tangible effect on combat and...

As though the rest of us don't bash 5e.14. Or 3.x or 4e or AD&D or B/X. There's almost nothing fans of D&D hate more than D&D.

I've had similar observations, particularly the third one. However, the only change I've really considered is elimination of concentration saves from damage for PC spellcasters. I'm fine with the PCs using attacks to break the concentration of the NPCs, but I don't think the NPCs breaking the...

I'm just going to generally rule that you can't be affected by the same DOT effect more than once a round, but allow an exception for egregious instances at DM's discretion. The rules don't really need the general rule to handle corner cases like, "What if you zig-zag through a wall of fire?"...

Of course it won't. D&D -- especially the TTRPG -- is a small brand, and D&D is overwhelmingly large within it's market space. A new edition is unlikely to attract people away from other games, and TTRPGs as a whole aren't a very popular hobby. They're already the biggest fish in a rather small...

What type of feedback would you expect from a misleading presentation except similarly misleading feedback?

It wasn't a long adventure. Or, well, there wasn't much left. It was just that I got hit immediately after we got to the important part of The Abyss at the start of the session, which was actually supposed to be close to the very end of the adventure. We had already killed just about everything...