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I am aiming to wrap up my campaign and hand off the DM hat in the next 3-5 months. I do not currently plan on pushing an update in this campaign. If the players are gung-ho to rebuild their PCs with the new rules, I'm certainly open to making the switch, but my guess is they won't want to bother...

I quite like the Greyhawk deities. As @AdmundfortGeographer observed, they look like a mess if you dump them all in the same bucket, but that's because you're doing the equivalent of dumping the Norse, Egyptian, Greek, and Celtic gods in the same bucket. There isn't a "Greyhawk pantheon," there...

My approach with "cool moves" that go outside the established rules is to require some sort of check, and impose a significant consequence on failure. If you try to do a crazy vault into the air, I might have you roll Athletics. Succeed, and you get where you wanted to be, within reason. Fail...

I would put an asterisk in each save box, and immediately under the stats I would put a line: "*Affected by Magic Resistance, immunities." You still have to look up those features to see what they do, but the reminder is the most important thing for me. It's way too easy to forget to apply...

Thoughts: 1. Sphinxes as celestials...? Interesting. So, in essence, Egypt rather than Greece is now the primary mythological inspiration for sphinxes. I approve. Not that I don't like Greek mythology, but D&D's mythic roots are overwhelmingly Greek and Norse*. Diluting that influence and...

If I ever found a staff of power or staff of the magi, I would deliberately plan to do this in the campaign finale if I could possibly arrange it.

There's a gnome (well, half-gnome, but mechanically a gnome) in the campaign I'm running now. She's fairly insane, obsessed with building a magical engine powered by souls that may or may not destroy the world.

Babylon 5.

I'd be on board with Fighter getting renamed to Knight with the caveat that it's going to give up its claim to Dex-primary builds, surrendering those to the Ranger. While the name comes with some baggage around knightly ideals and feudal reality, it does a splendid job of indicating "heavily...

Yes, exactly this. The rogue is an obvious top pick. The two others: 1. The battlemaster if (as @Zardnaar observed) they have a -5/+10 feat. 2. The druid if they are in a form with a hard-hitting single attack, such as a giant elk.

If you consider "virtually all birds" to be "very few species."

This is half of it; the other half is organization. In D&D, you have species like elves and dwarves, who have ancient storied civilizations but whose populations are small and slow-growing. And you have species like orcs and goblins, whose numbers grow swiftly but who don't establish stable...

I feel like the nature of the artifact is super relevant here. If your patron is the Orb of Dragonkind, that's going to be a very different power set from the Book of Vile Darkness.

I played a low-level wizard in 2E. My two war dogs were more dangerous than I was. (This is not meant to make any kind of point about monster roles. Just noting my own experience re wizards and dogs.)

Now we're talking. I'm not a fan of the regular cover, but this is right up my alley. It's the first PHB cover I've really liked since the 1E cover with the thieves stealing the idol's eye.

You're not wrong, but that's to be expected, isn't it? The "generic medieval fantasy game setting*" was basically invented by D&D, and now exists in an incestuous cycle where D&D and fantasy MMOs copy each other's homework back and forth. *This setting, incidentally, is actually not generic at...

D&D's back catalog, or even the entire body of work published under the OGL, is nowhere near enough to train an LLM from scratch. And even if it were, I doubt Hasbro could afford it. The alternative is to use an existing LLM and fine-tune it on D&D. But then you haven't addressed any of the...

CRPGs are notorious for long playthroughs, but ain't nobody got that kind of time.

We'll see. Being willing to spend a lot of money is something, but it doesn't mean the people running the show have any clue how to make good CRPGs. You need talented people -- and not just talented devs, but also managers and writers -- and you need to give them enough freedom to do their...

I have a suspicion that somebody was being very optimistic about this percentage. Whether that optimism is warranted remains to be seen, I guess. I am certainly not making that shift, but I may not be representative.