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Ditched Paramount Plus now that I've finished Strange New Worlds. Ditched Netflix after finishing Sakamoto Days. I only kept HiDive because they offered me a deal, lol. I wanted to cancel Disney, but I have a deal until January and my Mom likes it.

3e Ranger, not 3.5.

And a lot of people would, but "Hunter of supernatural creatures who themselves have supernatural abilities triggered by alchemy" could fit in the Ranger's wheelhouse. Alchemy makes more sense (well, to me, at least) than spellcasting, since it's simply using components found in the natural...

How does moving at transwarp speeds turn you into a salamander? Or Barclay devolve into a spider? Let alone that time Barclay was aware while being transported... Star Trek is just plain weird. You stop to question one thing, and it never ends. You have Miri's World which looks just like...

I just had a chat with some people I game with who are younger, and asked them what they thought the Ranger should be. The answer was basically, The Witcher.

Narratively, hit points are the devil. You can get crit for half your hit point total, but mechanically you're fine. Sure, we can explain this to a degree as your will to live and adrenaline counters any "penalty", but that only goes so far. You can try to explain that hit points aren't...

It's not actually a Ranger thing per se, though it was obviously meant for Rangers, but 3.5's Horizon Walker was peak for this sort of thing. If you're a Desert Ranger, you're resistant to exhaustion and get a bonus to fight desert creatures. If you're a Mountain Ranger, you're better at...

My comment was a bit dismissive, you're not wrong in that there can be rewards to the story for taking risks. While some DM's are mean spirited about this sort of thing, that's not universal. Personally though, I prefer player buy-in for volatile, unpredictable character abilities. I used to...

Midi-chlorians. The explanation from The Phantom Menace is off the cuff and leads people think that the M-C's are the source of Force abilities. The more in-depth explanation explains the presence of M-C's are a symptom, not a cause. I had a big argument with a friend over this because most...

And worse, you're being forced to make a choice at the start of the adventuring day when you might have zero information about what you're actually going to fight, thus opening the door to picking wrong anyways. Just looking over my last adventure session, the players had three encounters, one...

Honestly, that line "as part of the same action" just strikes me as damn odd wording. Why not: "As a Magic Action, you may cast any Cleric spell of 5th-level or lower with a casting time other than a Reaction, without requiring any V, S, or M components"?

So they're on par with 3.x Druids?

I got together with some gaming friends I hadn't played with in awhile recently. It was decided we'd each take turns running a game. For my turn, I wanted to run a silly older D&D adventure (Fluffy Goes To Heck, from Dungeon #4). I assumed I'd be running 5e since everyone was A) familiar with...

Here's a few things that have been problems since 2014 and have yet to be resolved (or were made worse): Phantasmal Force: as written there is no logical reason a creature would take the action to study the illusion and break out of the spell due to the line “While affected by the spell, the...

The Paladin is great for burst, but I don't really like Smite. My playstyle is, if I have spell slots, I want to conserve them because I always plan for a long adventuring day, even if it doesn't manifest. I've seen Paladins burn all their spell slots in early encounters and then end up with...

I think there's a small percentage of DM's who miss bouncing lightning bolts and fireballs immolating friendlies on a regular basis, lol.

I mean imagine if the Ranger had a feature called "Monster Hunter". By spending your bonus action, you can deal, say, 1d4 additional damage* on all your attacks, and it scales by d4 every 2 levels after the first. Then you have a second feature, "Favored Enemy", that lets you pick a type of...

And again, if you're an experienced DM, you can probably make these intent calls. But not every DM is going to be able to read between the lines or understand the "unwritten rules" of the game. I mean, every game needs to have, before even rule zero, a rule minus one: the rules aren't meant to...

Yeah, I know, I remember a lot of people in the past griping that "WotC took away the DM's authority" and "players are too entitled" back when the rules didn't have the consistency of quicksand. Not that any DM lost their ability to make rulings, mind, but because they had less justification to...

Forcing "rulings over rules" is really a bad idea. I mean, it's true that every group is going to play the game that's best for them (we hope!). But by saying "hey people, we don't expect anyone to play this game as written, so our books are more like guidelines than rules you should take...