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Yes. It was fairly straightforward and a bit exposition-heavy at the outset, but it was fun. Maybe not the best of the bunch but not the worst either.

We finished playing through "Shard of the Accursed" this evening. I have added my play report to the original post.

I'm originally from Philly, but I did not get the joke. :( I've never been to Pittsburgh, so maybe that's why. Yeah. While I think that La'an's ancestry is why the serum turned her into a Romulan instead of a Vulcan, I don't think Spock made that connection. His thinking would have stopped at...

I'm not vetoing the lore. I'm telling them that their so-called defiler is mechanically something else. Despite their little nod to withering plants in the opening description, there is nothing about environmental damage in the subclass' mechanics. It's entirely focused on drawing magical power...

Touché! OK, now I really am going to go away and do some other things! I'll catch up on the ensuing discussions later.

Yes, probably. I mean, they made an effort to give the setting a classical civilizations vibe -- not-Aztecs, not-Romans, not-Greeks, etc -- but had a bit of a blind spot about slavery, I guess. Or maybe they just felt American-style chattel slavery was more blatantly evil and didn't want to go...

Even though I don't know you from a bar of soap, I am glad that we can butt heads in one thread and then come over here and joke with each other about it. That's one thing I really like about this place. :)

Sure, and I have already stated that I'm fine with defiling and ex-templars etc. I just don't like the specific mechanics presented in the UA, and I don't think WotC should be encouraging that specific kind of playstyle in the context of Dark Sun. I think there are more creative ways they could...

Yes. My point was that it shows that the violent nature of D&D is something WotC's designers are thinking about. I wasn't arguing that they've resolved to turn D&D into a completely non-violent game - just like I haven't decided yet if the violence of D&D is something that matters to me. I...

Exactly. I was referring to the first line. Besides, I doubt you would have made that post at all if I hadn’t put dying on hills in your mind.

I guess. Well, it's lunch time here, so I'm going to take a break and go eat something and then do some exercise and review the adventure for tonight's D&D game, so I won't be responding for a while. Hopefully the conversation will move on in my absence. (I dislike being the center of attention.)

I was wondering when I'd get a "mention" in this thread. Not that I've been trying or anything. I am just aware of how much of an outlier I am around here about a great many things, so it was only a matter of time really.

Fine, but I'm not the first one to say these things in this thread. This isn't even the first time I've said them in this thread. So why me and why now? Why not others and why not earlier?

Hmm. Yes, I guess if their budget limits them to terrain in the immediate vicinity of the film studio, then that makes it harder to come up with exotic alien locales!

I don't know if you've noticed, but WotC has been offering more and more non-violent approaches in recent D&D offerings. It's theoretically possible to play through all of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight without resorting to violence. A number of the adventures in the Radiant Citadel and Dragon...

Sure, and I expect that it will. I can only think of two instances where WotC has changed something in line with public or private playtesting feedback that I have submitted. One was the start to Tomb of Annihilation; the other was the inclusion of Dark Sun in the Spelljammer adventure. I can't...

I agree with the first part. But I think we can make the case to WotC that they shouldn't be encouraging Bad Guy TM playstyles, and I don't agree that excluding these specific subclasses will make the setting less itself or more bland corporate trash. There are other (and arguably better) ways...

The mechanics are fine on their own. They're not unbalanced like, say, the druid's temp HP. I just don't think that a mini-tyrant should be a playable option - and the class features are all geared toward being a mini-tyrant. I'm not saying it should be sanitized. I'm saying WotC should lean...

Yeah, I'm thinking that too. That and some "undercooked" writing problems potentially stemming from that last writers' strike.

OK. Most turns of phrase are ridiculous really. I am arguing that it is not something anyone, in this day and age, should really want at their table, not just me. It's not a behavior anyone should be encouraging, even in make believe land. Yes, that is something I've been mulling over for a...