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June Lockhart has died at 100. https://people.com/june-lockhart-dead-lassie-and-lost-in-space-actress-dies-at-100-8621340

If see invisible is only making it evident which creatures are under the effects of some kind of invisibility magic, it's hardly giving out the equivalent of detect magic.

I do a little of it, usually as DM and usually to emphasize something about the NPC's character. I use my own voice and just change up tone, expression, and cadence a bit for most NPCs and my own PCs.

The thing here is - if you want to arm the goblins with short bows, use the goblin warrior stat block instead of the goblin minion one. Changing their weapons can change the amount of damage they're putting out and thus can contribute to changing their CR (in this case from CR 1/8 to CR 1/4)...

Are you KIDDING me? I've been playing this game for over 40 years. I AM an old customer. And I can tell you that NOBODY is ignoring me. I'm swimming in nostalgia-oriented products from WotC and have been all the way through the 5e run. And that's great. I'm digging it. And I'm all for WotC being...

Which is great until your cleric is down, out of spell slots, or is tied up and busy with something else. But even if just looking at just potions of healing, there are any number of reasons quaffing that potion might be a preferred or even necessary thing to do. Once you also add in other...

Oompa Loompa Doompity Doo I've got another warning for you...

I hope you see the problem here, right? If you try to be inclusive of more customers, other customers are treating that as excluding or insulting them. It's impossible to be ideologically neutral in that situation because one segment of the customers is making it impossible to do so.

While it's kind of a neat idea, the problem I have with the proficiency a PC may have with a skill being represented by a die is that trained skill is treated as a swingy part of the result rather than providing reliable stability. In fact, no matter how proficient a master might get (from +1d4...

The Expanse's exclusion wasn't arbitrary - it simply failed the complete rule because there were shows that hadn't aired yet at the time of his post. The series, as filmed and shown on TV, wasn't complete - we were anticipating more that would have a bearing on our judgment of the series as a...

Dave Ball of Soft Cell has died at 66. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg1rrzn1kwo

I'm not entirely sure I'd ever say that the game was deliberately exclusionary - as in intending to exclude people based on characteristics they can't control. As an example: While sexism is evident in some of Gygax's commentaries outside the game and it has some notoriously sexist elements...

Moreover, if upcasting was an optimal strategy for D&D damage spells, then why have the upper level damage spells at all? Just introduce spells like "energy rays", "energy ball", "energy cone" and make them fully generic in damage and/or damage type and just set those variables based on the...

The 1.6 million is just the BookScan-handled sales. And Ben Riggs clearly points out that's merely a floor for what 5e sales would be considering only about 50% of his own book sales are captured by BookScan.

I was recently reminded of the Cornetto trilogy: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End. It's less of an interconnected story trilogy as much as a set of movies made by the same people and senses of humor.

Your mama is so fat... how fat is she? She's so fat that when she sits around the house, she forms a gravity lens.

I'm not surprised people feel strongly about it. It's an issue that breeds divisiveness because you're (effectively) telling them whether what they're doing is in Bin A or Bin B based on some criteria that they might agree with. I had to put up with that crap from coaches of other sports in high...

They're sportspeople, jocks, athletes, or whatever because both of those games are sports/athletics. Just as we'd call Traveller players, D&D players, Masks players, and Warhammer Fantasy Role Playing players RPGers.

That's pretty much what we'll have to deal with in Wardens. And I think it's OK for the general table to be run as 5e.2024 and have the players adjust themselves to that expectation if there's a difference. I told my players that the references I bring are 5e.2024 focused and those will be the...