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  1. Alzrius

    I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism

    This is a salient question, because the entire point of having rules is to impose limits. This necessarily means that some ideas won't work as well as others, and other ideas won't be workable at all, under any particular game engine. Yes, that means that a halfling will never be able to...
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    20-posts/page setting

    I recall this happening before, probably due to some tweaking of Xenforo; you should be able to change it back to twenty posts per page in your profile settings.
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    I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism

    Except that in a fantasy world, it doesn't have to be a cultural thing. You can have all dwarves inherently knowing the dwarven language, regardless of whether or not they grew up around other dwarves, because the dwarven gods imbue them with that language prior to their birth. Or because...
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    I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism

    I think it's important to remember that this is a question of how you approach the game, in terms of generating characters. While a lot of people seem to think that the default method is to have your character completely developed—in terms of identity, powers/abilities, and backstory—before you...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Teams Up With New Holland For New Beer

    First the D&D slot machines, now D&D beer. Which vice will get the D&D brand next?
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    I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism

    I agree, but there's a very vocal contingent who keeps arguing that this is quite literally impossible, because humans will always imagine sapient beings in the context of humanity.
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    D&D General D&D Releases New Japanese Campaign 'Oni’s Right Hand'

    You would mind citing a page number for where in the 2024 PHB that's explicitly allowed?
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    D&D General D&D Releases New Japanese Campaign 'Oni’s Right Hand'

    My Japanese isn't that great, it's very much "functional" rather than proficient, and given that the basic description covers most of what's in the video, there isn't much left untranslated besides the characters, so I'll go ahead give a quick overview of the five of them (in order of...
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    D&D General D&D Releases New Japanese Campaign 'Oni’s Right Hand'

    Even stranger, the third character bio (for the barbarian named Waniguma) is a half-orc, which I thought wasn't a part of 5E 2024.
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    I own copies of both, but they're still part of my "yet to read" pile.
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    I just finished reading The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo, an 1819 work by Uriah Derick D'Arcy, and even before I can get into a summary of the story or my thoughts on it, there are several notes which need to be made. For one thing, "Uriah Derick D'Arcy" is a nom de plume; the real...
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    Itch.io is shadowbanning or deleting NSFW and LGBTQ content

    At some point, it's entirely possible for the products/services of a private enterprise—or even a small group of private enterprises—to become so ubiquitous in the functions/transactions of everyday life that they're essentially acting as a de facto public utility. At that point, the government...
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    Forgotten Realms Books to Have Several Digital DLCs, Including One Featuring Asterion

    Even with the fall of Sigil, their VTT initiative, I suspect that WotC hasn't given up the proverbial ghost on trying to make digital offerings the future of D&D, so this is really no surprise. I just thought they'd try to be a little more circumspect than flat-out calling these DLC, though.
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    Can you count?

    Looking at this again, it's a very inspired form of a base-64 counting system (i.e., the largest value a single glyph can represent is 63, at which point you'd need a second glyph, or some kind of other visual indicator, to denote a number above that). I can't help but be reminded of Maya numerals.
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    Can you count?

    61
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    RPG Sales of 2025

    Don't forget that there's a second page of 75% off specials as well, featuring titles such as the Candela Obscura Core Rulebook, Battlezoo Bestiary, Blue Rose, and more! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.
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    RPG Sales of 2025

    As part of the Christmas in July Sale, Cubicle 7 has marked Vault 5e: Uncharted Journeys 75% off! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.
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    D&D In a Castle Organizer to Launch D&D Dungeon Master University

    Though I respect that a lot, I'd be fired if that were my job (after killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts).
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    To quote something I heard/read somewhere sometime: "The public wants critics to tell them what's good. Critics want to tell the public what 'good' means."
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