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Gnolls are now kholos. This is one of the least legally necessary name-changes, as D&D style gnolls have existed in WoW and Everquest since forever. However, it makes sense to me, because it ties them more closely to Golarion lore, particularly the large gnoll population in Mwangi that are...

And it throws! I've actually held a couple of African throwing knives. Stranger than what? The urumi is a functional weapon, so it's not stranger than a starknife.

You've been Starro'd.

This is a little different than simply unrealistic weapons. I can't even visualize how you would wield this.

I've seen a PC death in two different playthroughs of Phandelver. So if your standard is, does the game regularly kill characters during the introductory adventure?, then the answer is no, D&D is not easy. A lot of DMs keep saying, "Well, this was supposed to be a level-appropriate encounter...

That's more effective than any method I could come up with.

The starknife makes no sense. At first I thought it was a bit like wind and fire wheels, but you can't actually hold it a plane with your arm because of its ring body. You can't really use it holding it up and down, because it doesn't even have a point going down, they go at diagonal angles...

D&D came right out of fantasy wargaming (and is, in fact, a fantasy wargame, albeit one with unconventional facets at the time), and in turn, is a "Braunstein" of fantasy wargaming, with Braunstein also being a wargame scenario. Superhero games had no miniatures game to come out of, and there...

I sometimes suspect it's more common among writers and artists than the general population. Something about depicting things accurately rather than from memory, maybe? Anyway, I'm a 1. At will I can enter my own VR world with lifelike detail.

That doesn't make much sense, the cartoon is clearly set in some kind of interdimensional nexus. It's not just the Earth kids that make an appearance, but also a group of nomads who don't understand and fear magic, demons and devils, some kind of evil force that Venger serves, and "bog beasts."...

Somebody's still buying my third-party books.

I see the Essentials line as comparable to the AD&D Unearthed Arcana, which changed some things (paladins are cavaliers now!) and added some options, but didn't really interrupt the overall direction of the line or create incompatibility. And a few people just ignored it.

Most of your score on a Capcha actually has to do with measuring your mouse movement to see if you act like a human. Being "correct" is helpful but not always necessary or sufficient.

I don't know about compelling, but Pathfinder has a much cleaner skill list. The feats are generally more worthwhile; 3e still has plenty of trap options. Downside: 3e's monster design rules were better than 3.5, and Pathfinder is basically the same as 3.5 in that regard but with even more feats.

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The GURPS 4e corebooks are now available on demand, in hardcover or softcover, black-and-white or color. Announcement link here. Store link here for softcover Characters. This is a tremendously good thing if you've wanted in, but didn't want to pay a premium for print.