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Armor of Agathys is an excellent spell for a bladelock if you're able to cast it before combat starts. The THP adds some much needed durability for a melee warrior with a d8 hit dice, and the no-action damage can add up. A bladelock is going to spend his actions on weapon attacks rather than...

I don't think that's going to work all that well in practice. Neither Mantle of Inspiration nor Form of Dread give enough temp HP to reliably absorb a round of attacks from a level appropriate monster, or even a single attack much of the time, and once you have no THP the spell ends. You might...

The union workers are also arguing against increased automation. Maybe the reason the west coast ports can pay higher wages is that they have automated away a lot of the low-value jobs?

You got it!

No artist has ever made money by producing illustrations for my home game. Nobody is getting replaced. The only artist who has made art for our home game is one of the players who likes to draw and draws his own characters. He still does that, the rest of us have switched from google image...

Surprised they aren't moving to Seattle.

It's not like having your job replaced by technology should be a new and unexpected thing in 2024, it's been happening for over a 100 years and the experts have been telling us for a long time that workers need to be flexible and ready to adapt, and that we can expect to shift to a new field...

Japan never stopped making guns. However in the 200 years of peace that followed the end of the sengoku period there was little demand for military weapons of any kind so large scale manufacturing stopped. Gun production continued as a cottage industry making hunting weapons, and there wasn't...

Some news: I just received my alt-cover PHB, slightly delayed but now it's here, yay! It says "printed in the USA", so it seems like the speculation that the overseas alt-covers are printed in China is wrong. At least here in Europe we're getting American books. Which makes me wonder why...

It's a problem because it's a product that will never be available again, a product that many people really wanted and went out of their way to pre-order so that they would be sure to get it. Do you have any examples of other companies treating a special, limited edition in the same way?

This is a myth, the law largely leaves it up to the corporation itself to decide how to do business and what its goals should be. If the shareholders are unhappy with the direction the corporation is taking, they can vote to replace the board and senior management, not go crying to the courts...

I also find it hard to believe, Cocks is probably exaggerating. But it would be cool if it was true wouldn't it? That the CEO of D&D likes the game so much that he finds time to play in 5-6 campaigns simultaneously. :geek:

This trick could be useful for setting up some combos that require multiple concentration spells. It doesn't matter so much that the original caster loses access to a spell, when he's going to be busy concentrating on something else anyway.

I don't remember that holding me back when I was a kid and learning to ride a bike ;)

Me neither. But if you're a book publisher, you should know, because it's part of your business.

The problem books were apparently printed in China. Chinese companies are eager for business and will tell you whatever they think you want to hear about their capabilities, so if you're not doing due dilligence when evaluating them you're risking ending up with results like the current fiasco.

Then calling it "training wheels" is a completely misplaced metaphor. Training wheels don't limit where you can go on your bicycle, they just make it much less likely that an unskilled rider will fall and get hurt. So completely the opposite of what level 1-2 in 5e is like.

I won't let WotC off quite that easily. Selecting the right printer for a book is in fact part of your job as a publisher. If the cause of this problem is something exceptional and unexpected then yeah, maybe nobody is to blame. But if WotC failed to properly evaluate their potential suppliers...

I suspect adding support for 2014 spells on short notice has pushed back everything else they were working on.

I've never understood the idea of level 1-2 being "training levels" In my 10 years of 5e and many campaigns played to high levels, nearly 50% of all character deaths have happened at level 1 or 2. Low levels is really where you need to bring your A-game if you want to survive, there is a lot...