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Last year being the operative word.

I think we are in general agreement, the crux of the debate (if there is any really) is on this statement above. Simply put, we don't know what the level of effort to maintain 100% perfect replication would look like in terms of time and energy. And it may be shown that the costs are simply too...

Hopefully this year will finally prove that the days of 1 billion dollar superhero movies are behind us. The genre has been exhausted like every genre that has come before, and now its only the die hards that are watching these, not the mainstream audiences. And that's just fine, it was bound...

I agree that for many monsters, the regen values are not high enough to really impact your standard "3 turn combat" scenario. Regen does two principal things: 1) Keeps out the riff raff. Its a mechanic that ensures you have to either have certain capabilities or deal X amount of damage...

I think the trick is, which was well noted above. This spell is not offensive, it’s a recovery spell. It is removing a condition from a character (in this case banishment). That is why it doesn’t have a save or attack

100% agree. For most levels I wouldn’t bat an eye, but 4th -> 5th is one of biggest jumps in the game. I do think care needs to be taken here

Saw the first two episodes. Rock solid so far, I'm engaged and intrigued. The characters are interesting, the new aliens pretty cool and interesting...I'm in! The big thing that struck me is....honestly Earth doesn't look too bad. When your used to the sterile existence of space travel in teh...

This is actually what your cells do. You have immune cells that look for cells no longer following the program (ala cancer) and kill them, and your cells are programmed to die if they veer too far off the course. Of course those programs are based on dna and your back to the propagation of...

Its actually an interesting question if that kind of longevity is even possible. Sake of argument lets say your a super advanced race that uses nanites or something to repair and maintain everything, perfect over time. Well those nanites themselves have to be repaired and replicate....and with...

Less a power question and more trying to get in the mindset of WOTC designers (and perhaps there is an interview out there someone could point to that explains why). The Tarrasque, the CR30 big baddie, the apocolyptic force that threatens even 20th level parties. And yet with the Tarrasque of...

Yes I found my mistake. Where are the new CR calculations found, I have not seen any formal new rules for them in 2024, just the ones 3rd parties have made by extrapolating monster data.

CR24 red dragon only does 146 avg damage, and dragons tend to be high damage. Your doing 252 avg damage. Monster damage baselines at high levels haven't actually changed all that much. The Blog of Holdings monster on a business card is only 6 + 6xCR for average damage (which is 150 at CR 24...

If Zard thinks their party can take on a CR24 monster than more power to them, but since the request was a CR13-17, I wanted to highlight this guy is WAY outside of that. If a CR17 is a tough challenge for the group, this guy will wipe the floor with them. (especially looking at that alpha...

CR Sanity Check Damage: So we are going to assume the vulnerability to piercing is in effect the whole time, though in a ranged fight it might not come up as often. So (18 piercing + 24 poison) x4 = 168 damage. The tricky part is the unstoppable, so we are reducing damage 1/rnd for all...

ok lets do a CR sanity check. Damage: Flame strike is 49 average damage x2 = 98. Then the unholy word is 28 x2 = 56. So based on the 1/day and the 5-6 recharge we will assume one use of each of these in a 3 round standard combat. For now I will ignore the other spells since they don't do...

agreed, I think people are balking at the flavor of the touch, and you can easily remove that with 0 mechanical change required.

I think you actually point out why that scene is even worse. They could have had most of their cake and eat it too here. They find the dead body, there is some symbol on the guy that freaks the alien out, he still does his "its EVILLL!!!!" and runs out the door, and gets blasted....starting the...

Completely agree. Regenerating healthy eyes conceptually is straight forward with Star Trek tech, it’s just directed cellular copying. But altering a failed organ to work normally requires an entirely different Solution, and likely in an area of genetic engineering that strays towards the...

Or with his ex :) The way I took the scene (which I agree could have been better) was this was an expedition fraught with delays. Between working just to get into the site than realizing they needed a starship, finding a starship, working with the local government to approve it which has all...

just like people are pieceing out the first season of Picard (which is truly horrible), I think if we pull out the first season of TNG it’s the best trek. But with it included I have to give it to DS9. Its still funny to me that we often associate TNG as the "pure trek" where its really focused...