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For me it's mostly indirect - I don't care a whole lot about stuff not related to the product I'm looking to buy (books), so DnD Beyond changes are trivia news to me. I already had no intention of ever buying it, ergo a drop in quality doesn't change my mind at all. But some of my friends who...

I generally agree. The only times I’ve seen “too few encounters “ become a problem is when players can assume that this first fight of the day will be the only one before the next long rest - if they have any reason to conserve resources, then the game can be balanced (with enough work from the...

If you want subraces, you’re going to need to add something major to dwarven lore. We don’t want to make ability score adjustments for skin tone or beard style (which seems to be the only differences between gold and shield dwarves, and that’s actually more intrinsic difference than Dragonlance...

A minority do that, but the majority go in completely different directions.

Honestly outside of western gaming it’s been that way for a while. It’s just that a lot more people play Warcraft than read new fantasy fiction. Although Japanese fantasy tends to either not use race or not use Tolkien races as such.

Obviously in DnD there are many breath weapons, but breath weapons are one of the key, signature, iconography features of dragons. A dragon without a breath weapon is not a true dragon, according to the rules of DnD.

I would lean toward the magical and elemental aspects of dragons before focusing on flight; after all dragons aren’t just flying lizards either. Fire breathing is probably their most iconic ability.

Okay but what does that have to do with Dragonborn?

My main issue witht htis is that dragonborn and lizardfolk have very different lore. So if I want to play a dragon-person but don't want to powergame to get there, if I could only choose a lizardfolk I would be stuck playing something that has no dragon theme at all and a ton of completely...

Pathfinder's answer to dragonborn is a versatile heritage - ie you're an elf with some dragon in your family tree somewhere. Scales are optional for them the same way red skin is optional for tieflings.

In addition to very, how you say "scaly" dragonborn, I like to add "dragon-blooded" as humans-with-dragon heritage as a separate thing, who are the dragon equivalent to tieflings. Less than a half dragon, but enough dragon for you to notice. They do not usually have scales at all, except maybe...

The more I read the book, the more I want to play as a giant, but the book doesn't even try to suggest how to do that. In 2e, that would've been the core concept.

I’m about halfway through and mostly enjoying it. Lots of stuff about giant culture which is my jam, not as much stuff that can be directly used as a player.

I think they were referring to the 2014 version of the feat.

So not for another 18,000 years? Yeah that tracks.

I think you could do something closer to “cast a spell to enhance your weapon attacks for one minute.” “A spell” could be one of dozens as you gain levels, and then let each subclass define how you actually cast spells. (Tricky with the 2024 structure) I do agree that one of the issues is...

I'm really glad they switched lances to two-handed as the base; it just fits the fantasy of big dang hit so much better. I'm sure at some point in history a knight rode into a tourney with two lances, said the local equivalent of "Yo! Check this out!" and proceeded to spear two apples at the...

The secret is online gaming. (I had two groups dissolve this year - heck, I'm considering forming another PF2 group if I work up the energy to gm)