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Yeah, spell scrolls I'd think are magic items. But the Magic action is used for two distinct purposes. One is to cast a spell. One is to activate a magic item. Fast Hands lets you do the latter as a bonus action. Using a scroll is the former, which Fast Hands doesn't let you do as a bonus...

Oh, I'm not saying they can't cast spells from Spell Scrolls. I'm just saying they can't do it as a Bonus Action using Fast Hands. They use the spell's casting time (the level 13 feature reiterates the language that when you use a scroll, you use it to cast a spell, which to my reading means you...

Apples and oranges. Quickened spell changes the casting time of the spell for one casting. Using a scroll requires casting the spell. Each spell has its own casting time, which you use when you cast the spell. By my reading, that also means that sorcs can use Quicken Spell on scrolls that...

Eh, there's some debate in that reading. Fast Hands lets you take the Magic action to use a magic item that requires the action as a bonus action. A spell scroll itself doesn't require you to take the Magic action to use it. It requires that you "cast the spell using its normal casting time."...

I don't think two SA's/round is beyond what the designers intended. Rogues have always been able to make OA's. A reliable bonus action attack makes it easier, but not beyond the pale. You're totally right that I also don't understand quite how the proposed interaction works, though. True Strike...

I wouldn't worry much about this one in particular. Rogues are basically meant to get SA damage every turn. It's probably easier in 2024 to get advantage given some of these shenanigans, but even in 2014, if you didn't have SA on your turn via some mechanism, it was an exception. Multiclassing...

So many more people play D&D today than played in 2014. Even if this was a deeply unpopular revision (and early indications are more "mixed" than "bad" from where I'm sitting), the potential audience for a new core book is a lot bigger than it was in 2014. I just hope that Hasbro DOESN'T get...

Yeah, not surprised that new core books sell well. I'll be interested to know if the NEXT D&D book sells - more like Tasha's, or more like...idk...the Book of Many Things?

Heh, I remember when I noticed in my 4e games that all the modifiers basically amounted to "If you roll a 9 or better on the d20, you hit." D&D became quite the number cruncher in 3e and 4e. 5e has some of this, though I appreciate that it's toned down significantly (ability + proficiency is...

Yeah, people being displaced by technology is nothing new. And, also, it's always been a problem that we have a responsibility to solve, every time it happens. Part of how to solve it is to be clear that the suffering that being displaced by technology causes is not inevitable. It is a choice...

All I can impact is my own little world, and in that world, I'll be pushing for treating people better. That includes pushing WotC away from using AI to replace people by calling out this little interaction for what it is - dehumanizing.

I don't accept the fatalism. People make decisions. It's also not about stopping the technology. It's about doing our best to ensure that the uses it is put to are things that make life better and not worse. Inventing the airplane means inventing the airplane crash, but we can push for things...

This is a bit of a side tangent, but it's real bad, especially internationally, and getting worse here in the states. Agricultural jobs have been bad forever about this, hiring 14 year olds to work 12 hour days without adequate cooling, and that's bad but legal. There's also a growing host of...

As long as we make survival contingent on employment (food costs money, you need to buy housing, medical care isn't free), every firing is a significant survival risk to an individual (sometimes more than one individual in the case of families). All it takes is a few bad months to wipe out most...

I think that's a very reasonable take. :) But, we can point it out. We can talk about it. We can note that there's elements that suck about this and talk about how layoffs are a problem and about how we (well, I, and maybe some others) value products created by people with their own ideas and...

Yeah, things change. This isn't new. This isn't exceptional. And also, when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash. The people who are worried about what AI will do to human beings aren't wrong to be worried, they aren't making things up. People have been hurt by every major...

I mean, we can get very specific about what specific models were undermined by what specific labor disputes, but losing sight of the forest for the trees is part of how we keep making this mistake, so lets at least try not to repeat it in this conversation. The forest is: this isn't new or...

We gotta be real specific about what we're calling bad, because depending on the exact target, we could be talking past each other real fast. I think it would be bad if WotC used ChatGPT to write adventures (even if they used some editors/writers to "clean it up."). Sounded like you agreed with...

Now generate some art, some page layouts, and get in contact with a printing service, because you have there what someone interested in "bending the cost curve" for D&D would want. Feels like burning down a haystack to find a needle to me.

Planescape is an interesting case. You could make a case for all of the Factols, as a whole. They really embody the "both potential villain and potential hero" of the setting, and 15 or so of 'em show off some of the wild potential of the setting. You could also make a case for maybe Tarsheva...