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There's a lot of unfounded assumptions in these sentences that you should deeply question. The question that got Cocks talking was about bending a cost curve. IE: reducing the development budget. IE: using fewer people to produce more things. If you don't imagine that a key reason investors...

It's OK to kill a goblin with a single sweep of the greatsword. It's OK to fix a common disease with a single spell slot. Diseases need CR and potency and (potential) complexity. But they also need to be able to enter the flow of play seamlessly and be actively remembered (even between...

D&D has never really had a great use of disease. The mechanical role of disease is as a way to inflict a condition that robs characters of the option of rest (rests don't restore you, they make you worse), and drain your resources over long periods of time (so, when between adventures, or...

Human beings can make choices that are different. It's probably hard to make choices that fly in the face of what the people writing you checks want, though.

One of the especially awesome bits about Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel was that almost every culture included some notes on its culinary traditions (and in some adventures these traditions became very important!). Adventures in that book are one of the few experiences I have had of...

Less dire than some cases, for sure! D&D is owned by Hasbro, whose top investors are huge investment firms. The investors are already there, and have been for a while. Since D&D is one of the profit centers, I'd generally expect D&D to be pushed more toward monetization in general in the...

When "every industry" is doing something, that's suspicious. What do industries as diverse as healthcare and toy making have in common? Well, one big thing: wealthy investors. That doesn't mean generative AI can't also be useful in certain contexts. It does mean that the cart is before the...

What curve? What's the curve? Well, now we know what those layoffs are paying for. Peak CEO logic. "I know a lot of people who do it, therefore, this is a signal that means something for EVERYBODY." This is OK. This is probably bad.

It does get pretty immoral when that Elf is the hero of the story. When the audience is meant to cheer on the inherently moral Elf and his massacre of the inherently immoral children. But regardless of morality, I can say that bringing up the slaughter of children is not something a casual...

Yes, yes, YES, hahaha. Not familiar with the setting, but in principle, a background that is a guild membership sounds perfect. If the setting has the guilds, but isn't CENTERED around them, you could just have one background as "member of a guild," among the others.

"You get to wail on your enemies for 10 minutes before they can react" ...well, I DID say I liked a powerful ambush, hahaha.

When you would've given a whole round out to the side with surprise, just give out one turn to the character with the highest initiative bonus on the surprising side (or just have the party elect someone). Then, roll initiative (you can keep 2024's advantage/disadvantage if you like, too) and go...

Eh. It's OK if the party stomps the occasional encounter (or if they get seriously threatened by being ambushed themselves). Having combats isn't really the point of play for me. Running the game with surprise rounds since about 2000, and I have yet to have a game fall apart because of it. The...

Limiting CME to actually conjuring 1 elemental of CR 2 (or something similar) is a much better solution than "have a weapon buff."

I get that this rule is made to make surprise less powerful. I want surprise to be more powerful. I don't mind a group engaging with the world to get a significant advantage. Combat isn't the point of play, I don't mind a fight where one side gets a little stomped, or where the PC's need to...

This is one of the hard ones to convert. If you want to ride a tiger by the Official Rules, there's some hoops you might have to jump through. DM Involvement. Let your DM know about your character concept and see if you can't just...have a tiger NPC that you can mount. Personally, I'd consider...

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My preferred solution to the nonsense of damaging zones is generally to limit the damage to once per round. So if you ping pong an enemy in and out of a zone or run a character up and down a line, damage happens once.

Hypothetically, share holders are "the public." In reality, the major shareholders of HAS are private finance industry corporations like Vanguard Group, Capital Research Investors, BlackRock, State Street, Citadel, etc., etc.. Maybe not a great idea for someone who works in investor relations...

In fact, if it's a bridge that you don't think anyone else should cross, either, burning it is doing active good. "Virtue signalling?" That's for when people are dishonest about their beliefs in public for some benefit. What leads you to believe that Tito's being dishonest, or that he's...