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My read is that "imbuing" is defined by the feat, and so that doesn't take a spell slot. "Cast" is where I'd rule the spell slot is spent. It's also a little wild that this lets you access any spell on your spell list. Not powerful, exactly, just...weird. "I'm Jeormy the Wizard, and I have...

Correlation isn't causation, of course, and it shouldn't be surprising that college success and good jobs go hand in hand with a lot of things OTHER than "intelligence." Not exactly. They were originally designed to identify if French schoolchildren needed academic help rather than to be sent...

Autognomes, meanwhile, have no canonical mention of a soul. And neither do gnomes....:oops: One of the early twists of the campaign I play the autognome in is that it is actually in Hell. Every character experiences a deep guilt and is consigned to hell because of it. Which suggested that my...

And to an LG person, that's not desirable. Sacrifice for a greater cause? Perhaps. Sacrifice for another person? No, you are de-valuing yourself. This is supported in game. The Athar in Planescape play with this idea a bit, via the idea that devotion to a god is never a Good thing, even if it's...

I don't see why it matters in this specific instance? Like, especially in game design, sometimes things work differently in action than they were intended to in development. If you're trying to find out who is "right" in this game of make-believe you've already lost the plot, friend. Do you...

Why do you need evidence of the creator's intent, here? The reality is that machine-people and transforming people inherently give options for people who don't fit into traditional gender roles ways to express that in gameplay. What's Keith got to do with that?

It's compatible with hierarchy in as much as that hierarchy serves good and order. An LG character sees a good king, and that's fine, but what might be better is a good council, where power is shared between good people - more sustainable, more ordered. Putting an end to a monarchy or an empire...

My own perspective on Lawful isn't so much that they "uphold the law" as that they prefer order. In a vacuum, to a Lawful individual, civic laws are generally a desired thing, since civic laws help everyone behave in an expected way, and thus increases order. An LN person values this order as...

Without overthinking... LG - Offers to pay for what the man has stolen (normal); embarks on a campaign to end poverty by challenging the system that produces them, changing it so that all have enough money (heroic) NG - I didn't see anything, what are you talking about? (normal); embarks on a...

Back when chainmail bikinis were a big thing, you could count on the person buying your fantasy product to, for the most part, be a heterosexual cisgender white tween boy whose parents were working class or wealthier. So big muscles (exactly what your tween wants to be) and scantily clad ladies...

The nuance here is that it actually depends on how many risks you feel like you can take. If you need mass appeal, you take relatively few risks. If you don't need mass appeal, you can take more risks. At a certain level of expected $, you need mass appeal. Which is how we get Disney...

When it comes to publishing an official setting, there's a bit of a paradox in this choice. Because by allowing one thing, you cause people who don't like that thing to avoid it. You could have chainmail bikinis in your art, and those who don't like it would then avoid your product. But if...

I don't really agree. Disability, skin conditions, things like this...they become part of how a person is perceived by the world, and so how people see themselves, too. And that self-reflection is core to "fantasy." The idea is that me, or someone like me, could be this great hero or storied...

It's pretty disheartening to see Fighter - a class defined in part by its adaptability to many circumstances - be thrown into the "Strong" bucket and locked out of tactics, of gishes, of archers or duelists. Six classes each tied to an ability score could really just be one class with six...

If the barbarian archetype in 5e is broad enough to contain wild magic and holy power within it, it's also broad enough to contain "just a guy good with weapons" in it. The rage maybe gets flavored as a "grit and determination" kind of thing, and you're off to the races.

They all look like celebrities from the 70's, so there is an element of idealized beauty to them. If the goal of D&D art of adventurers is to present a fantasy hero, then there's nothing wrong with presenting that fantasy as something that's a little grittier and less polished than most of the...

So many folks are going to do WIS/Cleric, INT/Wizard, STR/Fighter, DEX/Rogue. What would it look like if I yeeted those obvious answers, I wonder...? STR = Barbarian DEX = Ranger CON = Monk INT = Artificer WIS = Paladin CHA = Warlock Fighters get broken up by archetype. Want to play a knight...

This is a strawman. The brave warriors and sly rogues and giants could have a diversity of body types, ethnicities, abilities, and traits that are not in line with a "good looking" stereotype. You don't need to body shame players to recognize that basic truth.

I think this idea is well worth entertaining, but I can't help but think of people beyond myself. Sure, I don't always need a physical copy. However, if we abide by the seventh generation principle, then what happens to the history, the creativity, the context when these things disappear? How...

I mean, it's a hypothetical. Any actual scenario will be able to answer the question of if the Big Bad can escape or not in that actual scenario. Hypothetically, that's what I'm looking at as a DM in this situation - a way to escape. BBEG has lost. Taking out a PC is going to be at most a...