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If you've played 5E, you should know that you don't need a dedicated healer most of the time - the game will probably give plenty of potions, and most of the HP recovery should be easy to do by taking a Short Rest between encounters.

My name is misspelled in my country and mispronounced everywhere else - I've resigned to the fact that I'll have to squint at anything that looks or sounds like my name and assume that they're addressing me.

Blaze your glory! (Ondath Inc. does not accept any responsibility from following suggested maxims made up by billionaire man-children.)

Conjuration Wizard should theoretically be the best since their subclass features buff summons (though how they implemented it in game is yet unclear), but from what I understand, if you want the "minion playing" experience, the Beastmaster Ranger has been buffed quite nicely.

Oh, for multiplayer I fully intend to play with my old campaign groups, recreate their PCs and imagine it's the party I DM'd for going through this adventure + my DMPC. Though I need to increase the party size for that, as both parties have 4+ players...

I'm a simple man who likes Elven Wizards, so I'll probably play a Dark Urge High Elf Wizard. I haven't decided on the subclass yet. I honestly don't think Sven's comment applies for the Dark Urge, since you can customise your own character anyway, and while I understand that for the Origin...

I think that sort of thing should be discussed at a Session 0. In a realistic world, the players can't solve everyone's problems at the same time. But also in a realistic world, the world doesn't punish them with the nastry hammer of consequences for every single plot thread they did not follow...

The new community update mentions that not only is Geralt's voice a part of the cast, so is Abigail Thorn of PhilosophyTube fame! I love it when two of my separate interests collide.

Except a good portion of them either no longer have any business in the Baldur's Gate area, or died since the timeline advanced by more than a century. Since Minsc and Jaheira are here, I'm hoping we'll get a few more easter eggs. It'd be great to have Viconia since we visit the Underdark AND...

The only correct answer is "you should intervene if the players dislike being non-committal" (while not forgetting that the GM is also a player). The party might like moving at a pace that's slower than what you normally like, but if that leaves them satisfied and doesn't annoy you the GM too...

Some people just don't even look at a thread's prompt before plopping down their self-important comments, do they?

I think they should be discussed even if not ultimately used. There's no point in launching something traumatising at someone when they're at your table for a good time. For my games, I discuss lines and veils with every group in my session 0. One player was afraid of snakes to the point not...

Some worries have started popping up in the Baldur's Gate 3 subreddit. Apparently the review codes for media outlets are going to come out tomorrow (when they were expected to arrive today), and it looks like the reviewers will have 4 days to look at the whole game before release. People are...

I'll quibble with you on this one. The Druid subclasses that give short-duration alternative uses of Wild Shape (like Spores or Stars) seemed to cause a few issues in A5E at earlier levels. These subclasses assume you can use your new wild shape forms (Starry Form, symbiotic entity etc.) 6 times...

Assuming you have expertise on Sleight of Hand, automatically taking 10 on the attack roll seems like the correct reading of the rules. A5E doesn't use the same phrasing as O5E on most rules, so we usually don't need to go full Crawford when parsing rules interactions and can just assume the...

This is a really good point, and one thing that surprised me in one of the last Panels from Hell is that one of the writers who spoke during the B-rolls is Lawrence Schick - this is the guy who was the head of design and development in TSR and created the White bloody Plume Mountain! The fact...

When you compare a tongue-in-cheek gender-imbalanced society where the worst thing that happens to men is being ignored to a fetishistic society of slaver, sadist matriarchs, it really helps me see how worthless your opinions are. Thanks for adding yourself to my ignore list, I guess?

Oh man, I missed you guys so much during this server outage.

I know this is a joke, but the 2020s image is actually from the 90s... The Mask of the Phantasm was originally released in 1993.

Hmm, I'm not opposed to that idea! I would need to test both options to see which one feels more balanced...