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Actually, long rests still take the whole night, so it's clear that they take time. It's just that most of the content isn't time sensitive, so you can take more rests than needed.

The condition has always worked that way in 5e, and at least I always run it that way when I'm DMing. The monster is likely to feel conflicted about fighting his friend's friends, but that might help stop the fighting at most, and wouldn't prevent the charmed monster from harming the other...

The real question is, would your friends jump off just because you did?

Absolutely. It definitely means Hasbro won't have all of the pie, but it makes the pie stupendously larger so Hasbro's slice also grows. Nevertheless, some shareholder types seem to be of the opinion that not only should they make the maximum amount of money NOW, nobody else should be allowed...

My hunch is that the money you can make from investing in books and book-based RPG content isn't that much, but online? Oh, you can make hand over fist with microtransactions. MTG Arena is already a microtransaction and season pass infested hell where the devs' priority is clearly over...

This isn't the first time you're saying this (the last time you had also claimed that the game pitted you against mind flayers at level 1 when it clearly doesn't), and I'm still not sure if we're playing the same game. BG3 is an incredibly close approximation of the tabletop RPG experience in a...

By this line of thinking, N95 mask manufacturers in 2020 became incredibly successful not because of external circumstances but because their management consisted of epic business gurus who managed to grow their business thousandfold. D&D is not a well managed brand. Hell, WotC makes incredibly...

As a newbie DM, I shameless stole names from other media properties for my NPC's. The result is that now there's a well-established Archmage named Severus Antonidas who was a PC's mentor. I felt a bit ashamed for the corniness of the name for a while, but then discovered Warhammer 40K officially...

Larian is a private company though, and Swen Vincke has made it clear multiple times that he wants to maintain ownership of the company - because he wants it to make the kind of games that he likes to play, not be a money-printing machine. And honestly, I hope the company stays that way. Too...

The only place where Friends became a problem was in Last Light Inn where the Harpers got into the "you just broke the law" dialogue with me, but I've been casting Friends left and right and never had that interaction elsewhere. Maybe I was just lucky in that my spell's effect always ended...

I personally didn't encounter any downside to Friends in Tactician. Maybe it's a bug?

On the one hand, I get the desire to have a specific, predefined area where romance/character development/personal quest type of events happen. It was weird in Baldur's Gate 2 where you're exploring a pocket plane full of monsters when Aerie suddenly turns to you and starts talking about your...

Oh for the love of... You know there are ways to give dividends to shareholders without salting the earth for short-term profit? Every time a company does something that will be detrimental not just to everyone else, their industry etc., but also to them in the long turn, everyone goes "oh a...

All in on digital? Goodness, they never learn do they. I love how the WotC staff keeps claiming that their sole concern is acting as the caretaker for the D&D brand. And then you get the investors' call where the cold hard truth is revealed: that they want to squeeze as much money as possible...

All I'm hearing is that Gale is exactly the kind of character wangrods who identify themselves with Marty Stu types would like, the fantasy equivalent of Ted Mosby or Ross Geller in romcoms. I'd say it proves @EzekielRaiden's point more than disproving it! :P (I say this is as someone who used...

At least the 4E stat blocks I saw still seemingly listed all possible actions. But granted, since the monsters were designed in a much more gamist manner, the number of actions was limited to a reasonable number so you could grok the monster's tactics much more easily than, say, the 5E lich. A5E...

Perhaps algorithm was too strong a word. What I essentially want is the actions section being designed not around the types of actions (a section for Actions, a section for Bonus Actions etc.), but instead being designed around a synergistic sequence that would normally be sequestered in a...

Do you think it's the kind of thing that'd be improved by an upcoming patch, or would it get better only when a Definitive Edition gets released, if at all? I'm rather close to finishing Act 2, but I would honestly prefer putting my playthrough on hold if it'll get patched in a few weeks. It'd...