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Advantage/Disadvantage isn't gone, I just meant that is the only time you use two d20s to adjudicate most stuff. Each spell has which list it belongs to in their entry (except for subclasses), so Fireball says it's a Sorcerer/Wizard spell in the description.

1. Removal of most contested checks and two-part resolution. Grappling, for example, is now a saving throw instead of a contested strength check. Spells that used to have both an attack roll and then a saving throw now only have one (initially). Beast stat blocks used to have an attack that...

I am about 50/50 DM/Player, but I do expect to DM with the revised rules before I play a PC. And ... I'm pretty positive about the changes. While some rule changes might cause initial hiccups, there's been a solid push to streamline rules and speed up task resolution. The PHB is a lot cleaner...

The only time I've ever played past 20 was a 4e Epic tier one shot. Haven't played a 5e campaign past 12th level.

So, finally got my hard copy. And I have to give the writers and designers a lot of credit, this is a well put together book. The reorganization and general improvements to readability and accessibility alone make this a worthy upgrade. Chapter One, in particular, is very well done. I think a...

I'm amused that Baldur's Gate got the nod for urban adventures over Waterdeep, but I have to guess that it's due to the popularity of BG3, and that's fine with me.

After enjoying being an Owl with a top hat (art from the new PHB), I'm back to my Vorlon self. Awesome movie. Willem Dafoe ate, but the sleeper hit for me was Amy Madigan's McCoy. So good.

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First episode was a good resetting of the board, still only a fine series, but waiting to see what happens.

I'll admit, I'm a little conflicted on this. My assumption, if I'm DMing, is any player is free to customize a background as they wish. Swap out the feat, skills, ability scores? All fine. But messing around with character generation right now, I've been theory building as if they're locked...

Mainly looking forward to have the physical copy in my hands

Went and saw this with a friend last night. Realized that this was the first Alien movie I'd seen in theaters, despite seeing all of them except Alien 3 (even both AVP movies). Alien and Aliens were common VHS fair, I remember a sleepless childhood sleepover. But as someone who's never been a...

One fun trick with Arcane Vigor is that it triggers the ability on Bloodwell Vial (because you're spending hitdice to heal) so a Sorcerer can cast this spell to recover Sorcery Points. Once per day, but still ... I know Sorcererous Burst and Starry Wisp aren't the best cantrips, but I really...

Knowing how a story ends isn't a killer ... they tell you how Romeo and Juliet ends at the beginning. Babylon 5 and other Scifi often do time travel stories as "closed loops", where you do know the ending before it happens (A character tells you his fate in the first episode ... and he's right)...

I tend to view Druidic as a vaguely magical language. It can be written into the bark of a tree (without carving) as a secret message only another Druid would read. Highly contextual, it resists learning by non-Druids because the same shapes and patterns could be meaningless if it appeared in a...

I know the UA had rules for which weapon masteries can go with which types of weapons, but that seems to be missing from the actual printed PHB (aside from Nick). So why not Graze or Cleave? Graze kinda makes sense if we think of the Sabre as a cavalry weapon. I know it's a finesse weapon here...

My understanding is it's an anthology series, similar to Love, Death +Robots, or Star Wars Visions. Different takes on an overarching theme (here it's games), but independent from each other. This isn't What If?.

If it were me, or if I were to pitch a book, I'd go for Adventurers From Across the Multiverse. It'd be more or less a PH2, but I'd use different settings as chapters. Maybe a generic chapter for a bunch of subclasses that are missing. Eberron would then have the Artificer, Dragonmarks...

I have mixed feelings. By the end, I wasn't that into the Acolyte, thought that the most interesting characters were dead, so this does make a S2 a hard sell for me. OTOH, I thought the show had some possibility and great fight scenes, so I'd have at least given a second season a try. If nothing...

I, on the other hand, believe that after Nemesis and Enterprise killed Star Trek (for awhile), that nothing made since Trek's rebirth has been as bad as those two. I have mixed feelings over Picard, I like Disco but respect its experimental nature isn't for everyone, but there are reasons that...