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This is anthropomorphizing. A large language model is not "aggressively" anything. Nor is it dishonest -- it has no conception of truth and falsehood; it is incapable of honesty or dishonesty. It's true that it lacks humility, but in the way that a chair lacks humility. ChatGPT is merely a...

Not sure I would consider that the primary benefit of Mounted Combatant. To me, the main benefit is the ability to redirect attacks to yourself that would otherwise hit the mount. Mounts tend to be way more fragile than PCs.

There's nothing in the rules suggesting that bladesong can't be used mounted, and it seems like a cool concept to me. Likewise, I see no problem taking the lance for your free bladesinging proficiency. As you note, the lance is not marked two-handed, so it's legal by the rules, and the tradeoff...

The 3E ones are indeed far more complete. However, they have also been carefully scoured for references to product identity, and those references removed, in a way that was not done with the 5E SRD.

Any discernible relationship between sales and quality is a correlation. It seems like you're trying to say high sales do not guarantee high quality -- which is true, and supports your argument about Tyranny of Dragons. But you keep using the word "correlation" to mean "guarantee," and that's...

There are good things that sell poorly and bad things that sell well. On average, however, good things tend to sell better than bad things.

According to this interview, he started 44 years ago and has a still-active campaign that he's been running continuously, across multiple editions, since 1988. So, I'd call that a "yes." :)

So... my take after watching: TL;DR: I think Brink's heart is in the right place. I'm not convinced his read on the overall culture at Wizards is accurate. The top executives seem to be generally hands-off, open to arguments from both the pro- and anti-OGL factions, but the pro-OGL faction has...

It's quite possible that he does, though. "Rings of Power" owes its existence largely to the fact that Jeff Bezos is a big Tolkien lover; and "Meta" is taken from the Metaverse in Neil Stephenson's "Snow Crash." A lot of Silicon Valley bigwigs have strong connections to geek culture. If I were...

Looking at your question again, I realized that the median is more appropriate than the mean here. I just added it to my original table: DICE MEAN (AVG) TIME MEDIAN TIME STD DEV 1 6.00 4.00 5.46 2 8.73 7.00 6.13 3 10.56 9.00 6.39 4 11.93 11.00 6.54 5 13.02 12.00 6.63 6 13.94 13.00...

It seems like this is still a hit point mechanic; you're just counting up to whatever level of Stress/Heat/xxx equals "dead," rather than counting down to zero, and using a different system to compute damage from a hit. I'm with @Thourne -- what is the specific goal you're trying to accomplish?

Agreed. I mean, I'd love to know what happened and why, but I don't expect to get that information for a long time. Anything WotC tells us today about how we got here is going to be, at the very least, carefully spun; and it may well be total fiction. We have no way to fact-check it except...

The "long tail" of cases where you go seven or more rounds balances out the more common case that you go five or less. Remember, that long tail includes instances where the timer goes extremely long. There is a 2.6% chance that you could go twenty rounds on a single die! It only takes a few of...

Continuing with this theme of "clock with variations" -- you could have a pool of d6s, and each round (or whatever your time unit is) you roll one of those dice. NON-EXPLODING VERSION (if you don't want the risk of a "yahtzee" that slams the timer to zero in a single turn) 6: Put the die back...

Yup, I get the same values. In general, larger numbers of smaller dice will yield more consistent results. (9d4 and 3d6 have roughly the same average duration, but you're far less likely to see your countdown expire on the first round with 9d4.) If you want to ensure an absolute minimum...

I threw together a Google Sheet which did the calculations for a given dice pool. For each round, I calculate the probability that you've hit zero, one, two, etc. dice on that round, based on the probabilities for the previous round. I ran it out to 100 rounds, which seemed good enough. The...

Here's the average number of rounds and standard deviation for dice pools from 1 to 10: DICE AVG (MEAN) TIME MEDIAN TIME STD DEV 1 6.00 4.00 5.46 2 8.73 7.00 6.13 3 10.56 9.00 6.39 4 11.93 11.00 6.54 5 13.02 12.00 6.63 6 13.94 13.00 6.69 7 14.72 13.00 6.74 8 15.41 14.00 6.77...

1. Fix balance -- not just classes and species, but also subclasses, spells, feats, magic items, invocations. Trim the OP choices and buff the trap options. (There's a lot more of the latter than the former.) 2. Sort out short rests. I'd prefer 5-minute short rests 2/day as the official rule...

If I understand the rules of the OGL correctly, Wizards had to release the edited versions as open content, didn't they? That's the "viral" component of the OGL: If you use someone else's open content, you have to make it available to others under the same terms. I'd think that applies even if...

Yeah, that would be my ruling. The most rigorous interpretation would be that Careful Spell doesn't work on web at all; but I think letting it work on the first save is a reasonable stretch.