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So much this. Can't we have a characters who can put their tertiary stats into the ones that fit their individual character's personality? Especially for martials when this latest game update has found even more ways for casters to use their casting stat with their weapons?

Wouldn't work. A Prince class doesn't have level 3 abilities, it starts out at Epic level.

As others have said, 1) generally no dying is worse but it is still a pretty frustrating part of play, and 2) it's because you are losing agency. And as others have said, With long turns it can become extremely frustrating. However, even with shorter turns it can be pretty frustrating if the...

I think the initial premise is shaky. Both TTRPGs and CRPGs were called simply RPGs approximately half the time for most of the time we've been talking about them. When not done so, they have been called CRPGs and TTRPGs (or 'pen and paper RPGS,' or similar) both at the same time. Mostly just...

I have fun when I get to meet with my department's legal team, it usually means I get ammo to tell someone else 'no' to a request with which I know we shouldn't be complying. :D There's also a gamer on staff there, I've shown him a few of the NuTSR endeavors you've gone over here and shared a...

There's still the possibility that it will happen. OSR/TSR-era grogs have quietly acknowledged AD&D 2nd Edition as yeah, actually part of the group. Farther afield, oWoD and nWoD/CoD fans now mostly appreciate anyone that is still invested in the overall game line. Staying in the...

Can't be, that's a feature endemic to every edition of the D&D.

Ah look, the paper tiger got wet. So you were able to read the AMA (no blocking, etc.)? Anything of substance to report?

I think you mean 'sude.'

See also CA governor Schwarzenegger's letter to state assembly.

Dave Scott would could have done himself a lot of favors by instead issuing public statements regarding their previous mis-steps, apologizing to those affected, and laying out a new plan on how to move forward in a way that would earn the trust of the buying public. It would even be appropriate...

Well, I'm glad the blog is called 'A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry.' ;) Okay, serious thought on the first part-- yes, we got it (we all got it, a long time ago) -- it is unrealistic that D&D treats gold as the benchmark coinage*. Most societies used coins where such a unit would have...

I should have clarified -- I meant the attribute for to-hit and damage. All the others (agonizing blast, celestial warlock 6 ability, oath of devotion paladin ability) add another +cha to damage. Shillelagh and True Strike both replace a weapon's normal dex/str modifier with cha (or other...

My thoughts are that it is certainly do-able. Despite Eldritch Blast+Agonizing Blast (with or without Hex) not being the end-all or be-all of character options, it's reliable enough and tried-and-true enough that you can add pretty much any-other-effective-thing to it and get something of a...

I mean, correct, but I think here we're in the clear, I was just confirming because the wording is confusing. If they thought it stacked, they'd end up with x5. see(notation added):

But what were they going to do? I guess I should check my assumptions -- was this constructed before or after you realized the tank was going to play more Leeroy Jenkins than protector?

FYI: I see both Thunderstep and Spirit Shroud, which are both legacy. It's weird, because dndbeyond doesn't seem to exclude legacy spells if you have the no-legacy boxes clicked. Certainly if I was designing one from the ground up. Given that it sounds like this character was pushed into the...

No one is trying to do anything (except answer your initial question). No is is making a spell to create holy water, they are referencing the spell (well, the process involving 5 spells, as Nikosandros mentions) that already exists. And people do purchase holy symbols and holy water. All the...

Supposedly Steve Jackson himself thought of it as a system to incentivize certain choices. I guess Combat Reflexes is price-optimized to get a lot of people to take it, because SJ thought it the kind of thing an action-adventure hero should have. Likewise, the whole 'getting higher skill numbers...

Re: the tech level -- yeah, we keep having to re-edit when 'the future' is. My nephew and niece are still watching Bugs Bunny cartoons that talk about the far-off era of 2000. At least the stuff on that TL 9 list are things we're attempting to emulate -- real time virtuality is sorta here; and...