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The luddites broke machines so they wouldn't face mass unemployment in the wake of widespread disruption and not be held at the whims of factory owners, the type of people who, y'know, would lock fire escapes so people died in terrible factory fires Like, are we forgetting '1800s factory owner'...

Of course I of all people have dinosaurs. Not even dinsoaurs, all sorts of extinct weirdos. They just, turn up in appropriate places, generally not jungles. The "What if I just, stuck the Western Interior Seaway back in the middle of North America" continent has a lot of 'em, but they can be...

And I like the up to date one that gives you a 'can be an ally can be an enemy' figure that's got a lot more use everywhere, rather than being this weird one note "Man atheism bad" thing they had their. Someone damning themselves through their actions rather than "oh the gods got pissy and gave...

A lot of original Ravenloft was bad though. No matter how much you polish a turd, its still gonna be just poop, and its better to throw it out and grab a gem instead. Just saying, when folks talk about the good part of Ravenloft, they bring up Strahd, not "The blatent Frakenstein expy" or "okay...

I hate to dredge, but.... The FR wiki is a hot god damn mess that is honestly, hard to read. It just compiles everything together and holy hell its past tense on absolutely god damn everything makes it a nightmare to actively read and research stuff If I get the choice between looking...

On the Thac0 I think its also worth noting that uh, hi, I got into this all in my teens and in my teens? 3E and 3.5E were the active games and the OSR didn't even exist. Thac0 was basically dead as far as folks concerned Its the other side of things that's the problem. Its much easier to go...

I mean, that's varied on what people think. Regardless though, when it comes to AI stuff, I roll on the "If someone couldn't be bothered writing it, then why should I be bothered reading it?" side of things Tell that to all the companies using AI for that very purpose and how 'well' its going.

I will argue against this and point out there are quite a few popular fantasies with guns. Warhammer and Warcraft are the obvious two, with Warhammer having both the Empire and Cathay using pleny of firearms, and Warcraft just making guns interchangeable with bows and crossbows (except for the...

I mean, with the go-to biggest introduction to D&D these days being a widespread bunch of generally low stress Twitch streams? Its generally a pretty chill experience and folks will relate to stuff like that as the way to play Its unrelated to balance, sure, but it is the player experience and...

I mean I'd argue it is a balance change, as you're adding either a minimal resource drain or a "Woops you didn't buy a torch guess you've got to turn around now and go get one". Its not making the dark threatening again, its making the dark annoying again. Mind, having both seen Skyrim players...

I mean, you're correct on the second point there, that isn't balance That's called "Poor encounter design" and kinda is irrelevant to this thread as a whole? The discussion is on balance. BBEG's go down super quickly in every edition except 4E anyway. If you want them to stay around, take some...

I disagree with this. They very much care about balance, as a certain old edition (Of the "3.5e is more balanced if you ban every PHB class" infamy) showed us. Not caring about balance would be wanting BMX Bandit versus Angel Summoner situations Folks want to be able to meaningfully contribute...

Unless of course the mum is the player's former character In which case they then get the enjoyment of getting to RP both their mum bothering their kid, and their adventurer being upset their mum is like this. As it should be.

I mean the patron isn't necessarily there, they're generally off in another realm or something So its just a voice the PC hears at the Appropriate Times telling them to do a thing or write home (the patron is their mum)

There's a few of us gnome fans out there. We will fight viciously against folks trying to merge halflings in, we don't need no hobbitses in our gnomes Gnome tinkers has stuck hard on them, though. If anything's going to survive, its the tinker aspect, what with elves already hogging part of the...

When it comes to Egypt though, you gotta remember that was the religion at the time and also, we're closer to the fall of the Egyptian civilisation than they were to the start of it. Religon just, changes over time, and Ra being side-graded to the whole Osiris side of things thing is just what...

Whismsy. Just a pinch of lightheartedness, just a scrap. And no, I mean Autognomes who canonically are just built that good they've got souls Warforged and Autognomes have souls, plus Golmoids if you like your random Dragon Magazine articles. S'why all the various raise from dead spells work on...

Whimsy Also will drag a setting kicking and screaming into "Yeah we have robots now (the gnomes accidentally figured out how to make souls and the robots now have souls)"

Gnome supremacy I could write instead about how it does infer that half elves do indeed fill that gap between humans and elves so losing them isn't nearly as bad as losing a unique race and therefore they should be considered expendable for future editions, as both elves and humans will always...

I got that many witch homebrews in my Homebrew Pile that, legit, you could pull an easy all witch party with every single one using different mechanics I will note on this that, despite Tolkein being the inspiration for half elves, they've never really followed his way on how it is. Instead...