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But it hasn't. That's my point. D&D hasn't ever "stuck to" that aesthetic. As I showed at some length, that aesthetic was essentially abandoned in 2E. So this wouldn't be "sticking to" an aesthetic, this would be completely abandoning the last 30+ years of aesthetic in favour of reverting to...

What's truly astonishing to me is that D&D still doesn't have a dog-person or wolf-person race. Like, at all. We've got multiple brands of cat-person and bird person, arguably two brands of cow-person, countless other anthro races, but no playable dog/wolf-people? I'm not objecting here - it's...

I profoundly hope you're busting my (space)balls here.

I often say "You can’t fight in here gentlemen, this is the war room!". But I have never watched Doctor Strangelove (I know, I know...) and I'm not even entirely sure what the plot is beyond that it's satire, involves nuclear weapons and maybe eventually a dude is riding a nuclear bomb whilst...

Given that they made Gith into Aberrations, when they share basically no characteristics with other Aberrations, just some history, it seems like they really should. (Honestly the refusal to dual-type species and monsters in 5E mystifies the hell out of me - you can just do it, and it doesn't...

Yeah exactly - it could even be a kind of "don't feed them after midnight" kind of deal, or like, what happens if a kobold eats dragon flesh or something.

I don't doubt either is true, but I would say that is probably unusual. I tried a Monty Python quote on a 35-ish nerd I know recently and he was frankly totally non-plussed, and when I cringefully explained it to him, he was like "Cool, cool, I've always heard that stuff was fun and should...

I'm a bit put off by this, personally. The level of staggeringly broad assumption here is truly remarkable. Just a real "everyone who plays D&D is basically like me and my friends" vibe for me. I think you will find, Horatio, that there a lot more and more diverse people who play D&D in heaven...

Not really imho. Cleric is a complicated set of fictional, mythohistorical, and mostly-Abrahamic religious concepts rolled into one. "Power from the outside" is not what defined the class at creation. Further, I would suggest that's never been at the core of the Cleric, never been definitional...

I think they can, actually. I agree - but that's because it rarely comes up in things like Critical Role or BG3 or even discussions of D&D, but there's a reason it rarely comes up - its very existence means there's no point in playing weird lighting games, so D&D isn't a game about lighting...

I think that's optimistic, but if they do half-arse it, I hope you're right.

Oh I was talking from a designer perspective primarily. A designer should understand what they're doing and why re: fiction and simulation and so on. When playing/running whilst it helps to understand the designer intentions you can often just go with the vibe as you say.

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I get that you just jumped in without reading the thread and we all do that sometimes, but I politely suggest you read the thread, because this is simply not true and not even really what's being discussed.

Those are two separate issues though. The fiction can need it in a non-simulationist game (indeed I'd argue Shadowdark is primarily gamist, particularly the default torch mechanic as I understand it), or you can have a simulationist game where this isn't a particularly important or interesting...

Yeah Shadowdark (bought it, still haven't read it, I will eventually!) does this right? It presumably has to in order to make the torch mechanic meaningful. Daggerheart notably also doesn't include any "darkvision"-type abilities for anyone, PC or otherwise. It doesn't necessarily make...

Why not? Fear doesn't reset between sessions. Paying 3 Fear now means 3 Fear you don't have next session. It also means you have to hold Fear back to be able to pay for it, limiting how hard you can go in combat. I really think a lot of people forget that Fear doesn't reset. And they should...

I feel like this is a really common issue on ENworld specifically. And let me be clear, I'm not just talking about a 2020s aesthetic zeitgeist, it's been increasingly towards lanterns and magic items (often very minor) and non-mundane mundane light sources (like glowing bugs etc.) since like...

Classic ENworld "question answered correctly in first response post" action here! No sarcasm, I fully agree this is the absolute core of it. And every class where the PC and/or their powers can potentially be messed with by an outside entity has this to some greater or lesser extent - players...

With love, this seems like the worst possible example unless you absolutely body some of those players who can body him! Because it potentially supports the opposite point to: Which I think is mostly true though I think DMs who are unimaginative/narrow-minded or thick or particularly...