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I suspect these are intentional. For one, casting hallow as an action is only arguably a problem; it seems appropriate to me for something called Divine Intervention, as a once-daily kind of thing. For the others, this appears to be the result of a new design mandate: nothing requires both an...

While I'm addressing items on KibblesTasty's list, this clearly seems like a misinterpretation to me: Hunger Pains. Eating less than half the required food for a day forces you to save vs. Exhaustion at the end of the day, but eating nothing at all doesn't have any effect for 5 days. A creature...

Also apparently fixed: Grappler feat wording on moving a Grappled creature, Giant Insect hit points, distance away from you that the Telekinetic feat's Mage Hand can be, Conjure Woodland Beings upcasting wording.

First, I want to address this: Not True Polymorph. True polymorph no longer ‘works’ since you transform back when you take a long rest, since True Polymorph uses temporary hit points, and those go away on a long rest. Makes the permanent part pointless. What? Nothing about the 2024 True...

There was also a concern about whether a free hand was still required to cast a spell with somatic components. The language now says: Is that a change from the printed book? (In any case, I feel that the intent is clear whether the word "free" is there or not.)

On KibblesTasty's list of issues in the 2024 PHB, discussed earlier, I see this item: Poisoned Misses. The poisoner feat triggers the poison when “they take damage from the poisoned item” and lasts “until you hit”. This means you can use it is with a Graze weapon, and then give yourself...

Just took a stroll through the Creature Stat Blocks appendix in the new PHB, and discovered the following interesting things (interesting to me, at any rate): We knew that the Bloodied condition was making a comeback, but I wasn't expecting to run into this so soon: Bloodied Fury. While...

For those interested in Tian Xia as an East Asian analog setting but not familiar with it, I can add some commentary. In general, I prefer Kara-Tur as a base setting for my own use. Overall, its adaptation of East Asia to a fantasy setting is fairly straightforward, which I know is one of the...

Huh. That's interesting. I recall monster children being rather common back in the day, but I've read and played and DMed Keep on the Borderlands so many times that maybe I'm only remembering them from there.

Right, the point being that the conceptions of monsters you've been raising as examples are nothing like the humanoids in Keep on the Borderlands, which have parents and children and live together in communities. And when people bring that up, it isn't because they're uninformed about monsters...

RPGA... unsurprisingly stepping on yet another TSR trademark.

In which of those legends and fairy tales were these chaos monsters presented as sentient mortal creatures that mate and bear noncombatant children to be slaughtered by the heros, as they are in KotB? Where in Tolkien's published works (which you reference) were there caves filled with Orc...

I don't think there's any evidence of a community of noncombatant family members living on the Romulan ship, though.

The Horta, Medusans, Tholians, Excalbians, and many others would quibble with this characterization. Star Trek presented lots of examples of treating other sentient creatures, even decidedly non-humanoid ones, with compassion and understanding. It's also worth pointing out that both Star Trek...

Given the differences between TLotRR and standard D&D, using the existing DDB character sheet would make for a very awkward fit. This is one of the key things I'll be interested in seeing: will DDB implement a custom character sheet for TLotRR, with appropriate terms, languages, weapons/armour...

Yeah, I really wonder how DDB will implement that. The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying (and Adventures in Middle-earth before that) are quite a ways from D&D in the 5e space, with significant differences in terminology and certain areas of the rules. Alternative rulesets like Tales of the Valiant...

Try reading this quote substituting "life" for "water", as they are effectively the same thing.

That's just what they want you to think! Those KGB PsyOps folks are verrrry clever.

Maybe; or there could have been other reasons. For one, public companies have several audiences: shareholders and others with vested financial interests, certainly, but also the broader public, and (often forgotten by those commenting on company actions) employees. After a round of layoffs...

So all of us have to put with threadcrapping about unrelated business matters when we want to talk about gaming? There's nothing we can do about it but tolerate the incessant negative behavior? These boards weren't like this before. Even during the Great Edition Wars in the 3e/4e/Pathfinder...