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I think, like so much that is discussed on enworld, is a table-by-table situation. I think Matt Colville had a video about that, that we can't really talk about playing D&D because it varies so wildly table by table, you're not comparing it the same way as you might compare playing Fallout 4...

I became aware of "healing potions: bonus action for self, full action to feed someone" primarily when I watched Critical Role. I'm sure it existed at tables and in material before that. So I wasn't shocked to see it in BG3.

This is what I was thinking. The schools of magic don't directly map over one to one for specialization of a wizard, but I would bet there are conjurer specialists in the Red Robes

This reminded me of Vice City, when the radio ads talk about America winning our war against Australia and the documentary Red Dawn.

... especially the part where the barbarian doesn't use magic and gets XP by destroying magic items

I played in a small campaign (a DM and 2 players) where, as a cleric, I doubled down on all item creating in 3.x. The other character was an astral deva from whatever the WOTC book was where they had monstrous races as classes. RAW, there is an insane amount of stuff you can pack on weapons...

Are you talking about D&D as its own specific genre, or do you mean the fantasy novels that spawned D&D? Because I don't remember too many magic items in Conan, Grey Mouser, or Thieves' World.

To me, it feels like having slots moves the game back towards being an MMO... which was a huge complaint about 4e. I do think there should be limits on how many magic items can be effectively used though

I think that was Xenk's design. He's the deus ex machina who comes in strictly to solve issues and then walks off. ... over the rock in his way because the character was always on autopilot.

I wasn't part of that discussion because I've never had the chance to play either but... I hate that as gamers, instead of being impressed that someone with the reach that CR has is even introducing MH/PBTA to people who've never heard of it, we're more concerned with if someone is playing it...

I like it. It reminded me of something I read, probably on enworld at some point, about the old rules about magic items in 1e being worth xp. Anyway - someone mentioned that, to capture that Conan/Fafhrd feel, gold didn't get xp - SPENDING gold, specifically wasting gold, gave XP. Buying...

For the Venn diagram, I found it interesting that CR did a one-shot of Monsterhearts to expose their fan base to it, AND did an episode of Handbooker Helper to explain the system (Bonus points because Matt says that playing Monsterhearts is for people who wondered about being Taliesin Jaffe as...

I don't see it as a loss for gaming if they also release their system - they literally are Yes And'ing themselves to possibly get more money. I don't see it as any different from a company making 5e books to 'keep the lights on' and then putting effort into non-5e systems.

I think that's because a lot of people don't realize Germany, as we know it, was not a thing before 1871. I feel like, at least in America, Germany is as old and settled as France or Spain or England

On a side note about Jane Austen, not enough people talk about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I've never read her works, but a dear friend told me this movie tracks with the books... with zombies added.

Matt Forbeck's Brave New World. Updated and broadened in powers. As well as the sequel that was going to be about just where all the Alphas went when Chicago got cratered with a nuke during the Bicentennial Battle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World_(role-playing_game)

This talk of Warcraft and D&D makes me wonder if we will see another Warcraft rpg, now that Metzen is back in charge of Blizzard. He does put out 5e stuff with his company Home Page - Warchief Gaming

I remember the old Diablo II books Wizards had put out and a lot of the fun from that came from rolling the random magic item abilities. Some, obviously, were super overpowered but some were just randomly cool like 'your character gets +3 levels worth of spells a day'

I don't feel there's a huge difference between his being a role model for a streamed game vs a home DM. Is he a lot smoother now? Yes, he's had a ton of time to practice. But if you've ever seen Ashley Johnson's video of the original home game before the SHITs were forced to become Vox...

Hand-wavy of me, but I could easily ascribe that to... they're alien intelligences. How many decades of science fiction movies do we have where we absolutely can't understand aliens. And that's before you even get into the weirdness of TNG and Darmok