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I think bonus spells tied to subclass should be the norm for any caster. It adds so much distinctiveness and variation. When everyone pulls from the same list, everyone ends up converging on the best picks for their style of play. Of course, it would help if the spells were at least kinda...

If you get hit for 70 points of damage, which is hardly unheard-of at that level, you're facing a DC 35 concentration save. If you raised your Con to 20, and got proficiency in Con saves, and advantage, and +5 from magic items or something... you still need a 19 to make it. 80% of the time, you...

If I were redesigning the sorcerer from scratch, I would base it on the 5E warlock design (the original one, not the new one which is a hot mess IMO). You get a set of innate, at-will abilities -- beefed-up cantrips, basically -- plus a couple of high-end spell slots, and an ability that lets...

You certainly have a point... but now wizards and sorcerers have the same spell list, the same number of spells, both having "spell modification" as their signature feature. Why do we even have two separate classes? I feel like 1D&D is trying to make each class better, but they have a very...

Fixing Modify Spell is easy. Get rid of it. Spell modification is the sorcerer's signature ability.

The school system is a wizard's approach to magic. It's analytical, mechanistic, scholarly; no other class should care about it at all. They would have their own ways of organizing spells, which might or might not be reflected in the rules, but certainly should not be subordinated to the wizard...

He digitized images in somewhat crappy resolution and poor lighting and put them out. It's not as clear-cut a violation as if they were 600-DPI scans in perfect color, but it's a lot more than just a "review."

I am not a lawyer and fair use is a weird and wily beastie... but if you're showing a big part of an entire set, and Wizards didn't send it to you as part of a "spoiler" campaign, I'm fairly sure that is a copyright violation, yes. Whether WotC pursues it is up to them. They mostly don't, for a...

I had a number of issues with the 5E implementation of the warlock. So, let's see... 1. "Invocation taxes." You don't get many invocations, and Agonizing Blast/Thirsting Blade are practically mandatory to be effective in combat. If you don't take one of these, your regular damage output plunges...

If by "mage classes" you mean "wizards and sorcerers," I agree. Warlock got some QOL improvements at the cost of losing their most distinctive feature and getting nerfed all to hell.

The headline, as is so often the case, is not backed up by the article. "The documents say Pinkerton operatives were inserted into an Amazon warehouse in Wroclaw, Poland, to investigate an allegation that warehouse workers were circumventing sort of the application process for applying to...

According to their statement, they did. He didn't respond.

Quite possibly. But it is not illegal to send somebody to their house to talk to them about it.

The company that uncovered and thwarted an assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln before his inauguration? That spied for the Union during the Civil War? That hired the first female private detective? That's "a gross move?" Either their history is relevant, or it's not. I have a lot of...

So... someone at WotC, with no expertise in this kind of thing (but "M:tG street cred," whatever that means), is going to have to identify the person, find out where they live, get on a plane, fly there, and hope the person is reasonable and doesn't get violent? And apparently they did make...

Because I don't assume that everything Wizards does is automatically bad just because they're Wizards, and I have yet to see a convincing argument for why this specific incident was a big deal. "BUT PINKERTONS" ain't it. Their thuggery in the Gilded Age is no more relevant today than their work...

We in the D&D community have developed a seriously warped idea of what level of change constitutes an "edition." In any other form of publishing, or even any other TTRPG, there would be no question that 2E, 3.5, and 1D&D were new editions. 3.0, 4E, and 5E were not editions, they were total...

The jury is still out. Literally. There's a class-action suit pending right now over the use of artists' work without permission. Note that the suit is not just about the training process; the plaintiffs claim it is possible to get Stable Diffusion-type generators to actually reproduce their...

Ehh, not really. Forum discussions are widely used to train language models; they provide a gargantuan supply of conversational text. If you sit down to study natural language processing, the first exercise generally involves downloading a bunch of Reddit. And how many "independent" forum sites...

You are correct. Per the Silmarillion, dragons appeared during the First Age and played a significant part in the war of the Elves and Morgoth (Glaurung in particular caused a lot of tragedy); but winged dragons were not seen until the very end of War of Wrath, when Morgoth unleashed them in the...