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Interesting. To me remembering a numerical conversion rate I almost never use is vastly harder than remembering a place name I almost never use. To other people it is doubtlessly the other way around. It sounds like for you they rate about the same.

I rewrite monsters all the time. In this case, whether or not it's an improvement depends on usage. It has a lot more lore embedded into it than the vanilla version, so if you build it up a little bit before hand, such that players go in afraid of getting their hearts snatched when they fall...

Even in places where willing the lands to a non-natural heir is possible, noble titles are overwhelmingly not the holder's to pass on to whom they like. At the very least adopting the step children as her children would seem necessary (usually not allowed in a medieval European context, but...

Yes, that would probably be the most likely solution, unless the barony was in another kingdom or otherwise a matter of particular national or international contention and someone had to be assured of it never being united with the royal holdings, or something along those lines. Generally...

Alien, because it lends itself to the sort of game I could find friends who would want to play, and Princess Bride, because it's one of the nostalgic properties that I'm not burned out on merchandising for.

We should note that the ability to will a noble estate to a particular child of one's choosing was pretty rare, but since there is a king involved all things politically possible are legally possible. Generally noble titles and estates are not something the possesor can bestow on another (at...

I mean that just makes their advancement in dragon punching more quadratic (assuming number of Ki is still progressing at some rate while they level up). It might be justified; it depends what dragon punch does and what the progression of other classes looks like, and what other demands are...

Absolutely, but so are the ethics, say, of producing things by means of industrial production. Which is to say, I tend to ignore the ethical issues when making prognostications about the economics or future of AI art, because radical revolutions in production method (of the sort that turn the...

The scale, history, and synergies of WotC's operation make non-AI fantasy art more affordable to them than their competitors. In a market where you have a competitive advantage on one sort of product, stigmas against an economical alternative to that product favor you.

I'm confident it's not yet economical for them to do that, as even the entirety of official TSR and WotC art would not be enough to train an effective AI, specifically since so much of the art they have, and need, is for weird fantastical creatures, which AI art generally struggles to produce...

In response to all the "use an action to regain ki" and similar proposals, I have to reiterate my prior stance that ki should just be dropped for all the things a monk does on an average turn. At the point where a limited resource is freely regenerating it is no longer meaningfully a limited...

WotC are one of the companies that benefits most from AI art being stigmatized, having both a vast trove of art they've already paid for to recycle and being able to parlay being the publisher of both Magic and D&D to reuse art between the two to make properly human-created art more economical...

Sure, which is why it might not be a dealbreaker for me (to play at tables where I had that level of rules control) if the 2024 game offered things I really liked. Heck, I would probably be happy just adding up the total number of spells I can prepare at all levels and preparing that many, no...

I think it was mainly to have a tense and dramatic end to the episode. Frakes directed episodes 3 and 4 and Stewart and him evidently reworked a lot of their scenes together and tried them various ways. Some of the choices may have drifted a little from what the writers originally intended...

Ki is the problem. Having it equal your monk level was the original sin of the class in 5e, and having so many things run off ki compounded the issue immensely. Drop Ki, or make it a more limited resource used only for stunning strike and some high end subclass abilities (but just making...

Oh my god, all Socrates ever posts is those dumb reaction videos. Why do people even subscribe to him?

Well first off they are seemingly foisting it on all spellcasters, and second off they are tying the number of spells you have prepared of each level to the specific number of slots at each level. Thus a level 5 caster has exactly four level 1 spells, three level 2 spells and two level 3 spells...

I mean that's a fair distinction. Really the question here is not "will there be a split" but rather "will there be an unusually large split for an edition change". I personally suspect it will, for a time, be an unusually large split, at least for the tiny amount of stuff there is to actually...

I think basically everyone would agree that the rules of class features run with the class granting them, not whatever class happens to be in the same PHB as the class of the character receiving them. It is a 2014 Bard class feature that grants that particular bardic inspiration, not a 2024 Bard...

What an appropriate thread to revive from the dead after 5 years.