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Looking back on history means looking back on its mistakes. Being honest with ourselves about our past. "Virtue signalling," you claim, but the question of Riggs's motive is irrelevant. Who knows or cares what his "true intent" was? Feels like a dodge. "If I can discredit the messenger, I don't...

Gary doesn't get a pass for being of his time. Riggs points out that even "for the time", Gary was sexist. Second wave feminism was 15 years old (ish) in 1975. The Feminine Mystique was more than 10 years old - likely available at the Lake Geneva library. Women had been appointed to places of...

To support this point, I feel like this also needs to be called out... You're on the internet in 2024, Riggs. You're posting on a website owned by one of the richest right-wing enablers in the world, in a country where incels engage in mass shootings and bigoted rancor spills from the drooling...

I do wish we could move away from "sexist" as a character trait and toward sexism as an action. I feel like so many people's reaction upon hearing the accusation of bias like this is saying "The accusation of sexism is baseless because I saw this person be nice to a woman once!" or "It was no...

Pretty sure WotC never said there won't ever be another edition change. Just that one of the main people working on the game thought it'd be a good idea to have more stable editions than there had been in the past, in a 2012 interview. Which is something they're continuing with. This "5.2"...

The LevelUp's spell-less ranger does a lot of "not-spells"-ing. Heck, it basically reprints Hunter's Mark.

This isn't how demand actually works. Say WotC makes 50% profit on a book sale. Say they make closer to 80% profit on a sale of a month of DDB subscription. Now, every time someone buys a book instead of buying a DDB subscription, WotC makes less money off of them. This could even be true if...

I liked how Flee Mortals! addressed this. Legendary Resistance works like legendary resistance - monster chooses to make the save. However, the monster suffers some debuff for a small time after it does. It might move slowly, not be able to use certain legendary actions, gain vulnerability to...

I said I like and use digital tools in the post you quoted, so no, I don't want it to stay as it is. I also don't want to lose what we have.

D&D typically dodges this little moral quandry by saying that the torture-plane is essentially created by the evil people themselves (cuz they like torture, and made a place where all the evil people go to torture each other).

And in 20 years, will you still have that access to that content? With corporate shenanigans, with edition transformations, with, idk, a world where net neutrality is gutted and every website we access outside of the walled garden of our internet provider costs a fee? In a world where you're a...

This kind of thought process always makes me a little sad. One of the virtues of an actual book is that other people can use it. "I have paid my money and gotten my use," sure, but your friends? Your family? How many of us found D&D by poking around bookshelves or learning at the table with an...

There's this kind of weird blind spot in the game that occurs with any timescale longer than about 24 hours. Because of the pacing of a lot of the official adventures, the game in practice doesn't actually want to pay attention to this timescale very much, but with other modes of gameplay that...

Well, hard in that it takes work and careful attention to details. It's part of why a good sensitivity consultant is absolutely worth their paycheck. :-)

Sure, but that's where an individual group can do things that a mass publisher can't. D&D-branded official content should avoid putting tables in a situation where they have to discuss editing or removing or working around the Bad Stuff in order to have fun (if only because people who don't want...

What's so deeply frustrating to me is that this culture shift is so piecemeal and incomplete. Like, I don't want to get into specific politics, but if you tune into practically ANY country's election coverage these days, you're likely to see proud bigots and predators who try to and often...

Pacing mechanics are useful for this. 4e had a few abilities that worked differently when you were bloodied, creating a sense of escalation as a combat goes on. The Escalation Die in 13th age is a good idea. Monster mechanics like villain actions from Flee Mortals or Mythic monsters from...

Just as a counter-example, my Dark Souls-themed gothic Snow White game has four players, and I've calibrated encounters to a VERY high level of challenge, and they eke out a narrow win each time, and they're loving it. Interesting fights, sure, but the threat of death is a lot of fun for them...

I think it'd be kind of cool to see the hexblade as a Fighter archetype that tapped into some Warlock vibes. Less about the pact, more about the curse - the OG hexblade was more of a gishy anti-paladin, a half-caster or eldirtch knight with a gloomy spell list whose most iconic abilities were a...

My thought has been that Carceri is a prison like Pandemonium is an asylum. It's not about breaking the law, it's about exerting power over others. Not a modern prison, just a hole in the ground to dump the multiverse's malconents, where they can all hurt each other instead of the rest of...