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To be fair, it is behind a paywall, which does make it rather hard to read. But, yeah, this is a fairly perennial issue. LIke the mythical hydra, you cut off one head and two grow. We point out facts, complete with actual direct evidence and people STILL insist that it never happened or it's...

Well, sort of. I mean, the issues in SF and Fantasy genre circles predate by a LOOONG time the notion of pandering to the algorithm. F&SF have long been the "boys club" genre. You seen this in so much of 20th century genre fiction and circles. That it exists in D&D and RPG circles is not...

I think one needs to understand that while, yes, this stuff absolutely existed in the hobby and fantasy fandom at large, it is such a small part of the fandom. I don't believe that this was ever the predominant viewpoint in the hobby or the fandom, but, rather evidence of a small subset that...

((Really, REALLY not directed at you. Like, not at all. Not even a little. Just using your story here as a really, REALLY good example)) So, you're telling me that you had a problem with payment, contacted customer support, had a bit of a wonky bit with understanding the resolution (totally...

Just to double repeat this. He absolutely did not say that his products use AI. And, I hope that anyone skimming this will not read your post and think that you are, in any way, correct here.

I've been critical of Fantasy grounds for a number of reasons, but, customer service certainly isn't one of them. Problems that I've had have been professionally and quickly fixed and they have very kindly taken my very non-technical brain and led me step by step to solutions. When I was...

I'm one of those. Or, at least I used to be. I didn't think that they'd put out a setting like Dark Sun simply because it's asking for too much trouble. But, times change and the social winds blow in different directions, so, it's pretty likely we're going to see it.

To be fair, standardizing "energy" types was a 3e thing. Sure, you fire or lightning damage in earlier editions, but, there was not "thunder" or "radiant" or various other standardized damage types.

Well, that's the thing. You never use it during combat. Obviously. However, given the rather large number of scouting options that a caster might have, setting one up beforehand isn't really all that difficult. I mean, heck, go into the dungeon, set it up in the first large(ish) room you...

Nope, I was 100% wrong. For some reason I never realized that it was always a force bubble. Totally my bad. But, rereading the spell, I do notice that it doesn't block attacks.

Oh, you're right. I had totally forgotten that Leo's Hut was a force effect. Been too long. I guess my point is, so few of those spells ever saw any actual play. Either they were too high level, rather pointless (unseen servant was something I used personally, but, never, ever saw anyone...

Not even sure if we can blame Gygax for this one to be honest. Magic Missile wasn't a "force" effect in OD&D. It was an actual arrow. It was a "magical missile" in AD&D. It wasn't until 5e that it suddenly became a bolt of force. Shield was always a "force" effect, even if it wasn't called...

Thing is though, we already have that - magic damage. It's what weapons do to bypass resistances. So, why give wizards yet another way to be more effective? Just change "force" to "magic" and we're good to go. Then remove all the "force area" effect spells like Forcecage and Leo's Hut and...

Well, the problem is that it gets added to so much. Why does an artificer's construct deal force damage with a bite? Well, mechanically that's so it bypasses any damage resistance. But, it makes zero sense. And, really, what is "force" damage? A mace deals force damage but we call it...

This is kind of the point I was trying to make. The reason that this has all these bizarre interpretations (does it have a floor, how do you breathe, what happens if you use it under water? etc.) is because they insist on using these "force" rules. Just make it a cottage and all of a sudden...

If the atmosphere is "comfortable and dry", being filled with fire, smoke or poisonous gas is not what I would call comfortable and dry. Well, I suppose fire breath might make you really, really dry. :D If it keeps rain and snow out, why wouldn't it keep out things like fire and smoke? Up to...

I mean, yeah, that would be fine at 3rd level or maybe even 2nd level really. It's a small house. Perfect. It does what it's supposed to do - be a place to shelter from the elements while you rest. It's defensible, but, not invulnerable. I would have no problems with this spell at all...

Heh. Troglodytes. Or, better yet, Kuo-Toa so that they can actually bring about a god. :D But, the point is well made. LTH is a 5th level spell. It comes into the game pretty early. It's not hard to have 5th and 6th level parties with this. And, the enemies that 5th and 6th level parties...

Yes, that would be correct - one group for 3 campaigns - a homebrew Spelljammer campaign, a Candlekeep Mysteries campaign and ... I'm actually blanking on the third one. Might have been 2 campaigns. ;) My point being, it was VERY player dependent. I've since rotated out a bunch of different...

Well, you weren't talking about me either, so, I guess that's fair. On the idea of a hemisphere doesn't have a straight line. A hemisphere without a "bottom" isn't a hemisphere. It's an arc. If we want to get all technical and all. Considering every other version of LTH that is a hemisphere...