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The funny thing is, both of those cards are unplayably bad now. You think ol’ Tarmo was OP? Bump the cost up by a single mana (and swap the green for a black) and you can get the exact same thing, only with Deathtouch, Lifelink, and when it comes into play you mill yourself for four and can put...

The thing is, competitive play sucks now. It’s a coin flip, followed by two people playing solitaire, where the person who won the flip has a significantly higher chance of winning at solitaire first. Or four people playing Solitaire in CEDH. That’s what happens when you make all the win...

Well, yeah. But to your credit, you were vocal about this being an issue back then too. You were one of the regulars who was most dialed-in to the implications of the system’s math, and you correctly predicted basically all of the problem builds before the PHB was even out. I don’t blame you for...

This is just… the opposite of the case in literally any competitive Magic format. Maybe it was true at one time, but it has not been the case for many, many years. Cards do way too much now, trying to spend your resources on stopping your opponent from winning instead of presenting your own win...

I mean… yes, that is true, and anyone vaguely engaged in charop circles knows it. This reasoning for it, though, is frankly nonsense. I mean, maybe it’s true that older editions’ monsters had defenses against save-or-die spells and other such auto-win buttons, I don’t have the experience with...

To be fair, I think episode 4 was the best episode of the Overture, and the first half of it was just the Seekers. And, I do really like all of the characters on that squad, despite some reservations about Julien. I’m just really hopping he and Ashley don’t make a habit of competing for who has...

Yeah, as will the two broody semi-antagonistic PCs (Julien and Vaelus). Neither are ideal pair-ups for my tastes, but c'est la vie.

I mean, that’s like one of the key fundamental building blocks of European fantasy. The specifics of what technology the preceding civilization had vary from setting to setting, but the idea of “current society is built on the bones of an older, better society that collapsed for reasons now...

Yeah, D&D itself is fundamentally pastiche. Taking your favorite ideas from a variety of sources and throwing them together into a soup is a tradition as old as the game itself.

I’ve said before that I assume that will happen, based on Brennan having described the campaign as “West Marches style.” Though, as far as I know, I don’t think they’ve ever explicitly said this would happen. Still, to me it seems likely to at least be on the table, given the purported style of...

The requirement of a clear path to the target is part of the base spellcasting rules. Technically you don’t need to be able to see the target if the spell doesn’t specify, but your target can’t be behind total cover. The 2014 PHB also clarified how this interacts with AoE spells, and though the...

Only in the books for copyright reasons. In the show they were Torog, Avandra, the Raven Queen, etc.

Notably, Exandria’s pantheon is the 4e pantheon (with the serial numbers filed off in the published books, though they used the original names in the show), plus Sarenrae from Pathfinder (also scrubbed of the name in the published books), ported over because the first campaign started out as a...

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Critical Role posted a roughly 16-minute video recapping the main takeaways from the 4-episode Overture today. Mainly a summary of the principle casts’s characters, those characters’ motivations and relationships with Thjazi, rather than a recap of the plot events of those four episodes. At the...

I looked a little at V5, and I think the hunger dice mechanic is extremely cool, feels much more modern and fresh than tracking Vitae as a hard resource. I also really like how they blended Blood Potency and Generation, both interesting concepts that I think there’s room to combine. But it’s the...

Yeah, good point about your players’ preferences.

Yes, 100%. Abria and Liam both do it too, but not nearly as much as Luis does. I can only hope the three of them don’t end up at the same table when we get the final three subgroups. Oh, I see. Certainly could be, I’ve never seen him in anything else. I have very mixed feelings about V:tM. I...

What I could see being confusing is the combination of “significant change” and “to your liking.” If you’re someone who already thinks 5e is basically prefect, that combination of things doesn’t compute

Yeah, fair point