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I mean, isn't it? You talk about the zero-to-hero narrative, but when was that last really true in actual D&D? 2E had Kits which absolutely blew that concept out of the water (some of them being very elaborate, literally from the launch of 2E). 3E had L1 Feats and all sorts of stuff. 4E...

I mean, that's a bit of truism, isn't it? Like, if you looked at 5E in 2014/2015 you might reasonably have said "Eh it'll probably do okay but it's not going to grow D&D, just please some old fans", based on sales and impact, but the combination of accessibility, broad appeal and massive...

I wonder if it's the same setting as the one they're working on for DH, if that's the case, or if this is the other project that Perkins alluded to? My guess is it is the same one - maybe they'll release a dual-stat book for DH and D&D 2024 eventually? That's got some real potential I think...

I mean, D&D fans are at least that volatile, so I'm surprised this was surprising! I guess it surprised you because the others have had decades? But volatile fans is something that can instantly coalesce in basically seconds, just look at the fandoms of say, Steven Universe, or god help us all...

Yeah expanded ritual casting would be key, because 5E has an utterly bizarrely tiny number of spells that can be ritual cast, and hard-locks rituals to (casting time +10 minutes) which also means far less can be done with them. But even then the issue remains that 5E is balanced around combat...

You'd really need to very thoroughly re-work Dark*Matter's lore because it's er... messed up and not in a good way, and in, accidentally, a very politically relevant way today, because the current government of the US got elected in part because of very similar conspiracy theories and itself...

Honestly both kind of make more sense as Psionic given their abilities in 4E.

It is so I refuse to do that! People did complain about it, and whilst I don't recall the exact changes (hopefully someone has all the game builds archived somewhere), it did become a lot harder to just casually apply these effects, I think either Swen liked them too much and wouldn't let them...

That's not really true. Very few people seem to be aware the RPG exists let alone was released not just "people who play fantasy RPGs", but even if it was the latter, that's like 90% of the market lol given how dominant D&D and others are is. So a pretty peculiar situation. The videogame is...

There has to be, but sure as hell Pillars didn't find it. Two games of largely disappointing consumables. I'm sure they were "balanced" but sheesh. I think BG's problems are really: A) The game isn't very well-coded, to this day - for example, if you throw a bomb on to an already-flaming...

I agree, but I think we need to be real here, because there are two massive factors here: 1) We know what we're doing, in extreme detail, compared to "normies" with 5E D&D (and this isn't that different, and generally easier). A fight that's trivial with good builds and good knowledge of how...

The funny thing is I mostly agree! I don't think it's an exceptionally compelling argument. I don't think it's remotely in that bracket/tier of arguments! C+ at best. I think it's an opinion, and frankly, not one I'm married to, but I do think seems correct to me ("seems correct" being, imho...

It's pretty bad but some far from the worst L&O spin-off. I wouldn't watch it unless you wanted to see how funny the concept was (the England & Wales legal system is not an ideal one for this format lol, especially as the whole thing is set long, long after PACE became a serious thing, which...

I think that's maybe an unintentionally misleading way of putting it. Mearls' team absolutely provided Larian with information about D&D and the Forgotten Realms, and I'm sure that involved some amount of what is technically "consultation", but I'm not aware of any suggestion that Mearls or his...

I tend to agree. Metacurrencies can be very useful for some games but D&D isn't, fundamentally, a metacurrency game. I disagree that there shouldn't be any default-included metacurrency at all, note, but agree that it shouldn't be mechanically or mathematically required for the game to work, and...

It's interesting to see the ideas people have, there are a lot of strong ones with some very weak ones mixed in, which uh, I guess that's D&D in a nutshell! Like, alignment, bless its heart, is no more going to make a comeback than racial level limits. The most successful edition sees truly...

Have been continuing an HM run through BG3, pretty far through Act 2 now, and it is fascinating that, even beyond any amount "harder" it makes the game (and HM doubles-down on that by also increasing the difficulty of fights, though they eventually patched in that difficulty level for non-HM...

Fascinating. I was in Bali a few weeks ago and I didn't notice any, but I might have just seen "Bucket in bathroom" as so normal that it didn't even consciously register. What they did have in all the bathrooms I visited was bidets of various kinds, including "just a sprayer on a hose next to...

If it helps your quest, Hard West II is also profoundly mediocre, just like, determinedly "kinda ok" and really gunning hard for that coveted "nothing to write home about" award. It's definitely not a "bad game" or something, just profoundly non-compelling on pretty much all levels.

I mean, do they still appear though? It seems like it's been a very long time since I saw a 1950s car in an actual new movie. Late 1960s? Now that's a bit different. I guess there was a late '50s car in the Barbie movie but I feel like that was for a different reason lol. I offer an alternative...