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Great, in that case werebear lycanthropy is the best treasure in the game for your character. Damage wise, you want to maximize your number of attacks, which can be done most consistantly by using two-weapon fighting or polearm master, and less consistently by being a Berserker and/or taking...

What's all this Mighty Nein talk? This is clearly a promo for the Sensual Seven.

Not every product is for you. I love both D&D and Stranger Things and I doubt it's my cup of tea (a game built around medieval fantasy character classes just doesn't map that well onto a show where the protagonists are children in the 1980s). But of rpg products released this year this almost...

They are all excellent when executed well, and can all be utterly butchered when executed poorly. There is none that I would prefer a below average example of over an above average example of any of the others. Since frying to correct crispiness and serving hot are far more important to whether...

Yeah, I don't know, I haven't seen it in a very long time. It certainly is more thoroughly a Superman movie, covers the origin story, and Reeves, in my book and many other people's, is the most Superman Superman who will ever Superman. And I saw that movie before I'd been exposed to any other...

I think the fundamental question is, is this a "this is what was really going on behind the history in secret" premise, or is it a full on, alternate history, Knights and Aliens, scenario where aliens openly show up sometime in the middle ages. Both are pretty cool. The prior has a lot more...

As far as feats go it's probably best to just lean into whatever weapon or weapon setup you are mostly using by time you get to level 4 and get the feat that goes with it. I think polearm master with a spear (or quarterstaff) is still, within the white walls of the kingdom of Theorycraftia, the...

For the first hour or so I loved it, and felt like it was easily on track to be the best Superman movie. Very comicbooky, in the best sort of way, while also interrogating the impracticalities of the fundamental naivety that the "good guy punches evil away" narrative of superman is built upon...

Per Wikipedia his given first name is actually Lucion, not Lucian, so that possibly tells you something about the care with which this lawsuit (which does read as being against "Lucian") was prepared. I bring it up mostly because, holy heck does he have an awesome villain name for a Sci-Fi or...

Man, I wish my paycheck had a little "figures in millions" note attached.

The dissonance between characters and npc humanoids is something that bothered me and people I've played with in 5e since that first Redbrand took a second attack against level 2 characters back in Phandalin. 2024 New 5e has, I think, actually cut back on this on the attack front, but then has...

Sure, a whole slew of spells that only target humanoids (Hold Person) will now not target Kalashtar. Meanwhile they are susceptible to a bunch of spells (like Protection from Good and Evil) that affect "Aberrations, Celestials, Elementals, Fey, Fiends, or Undead" (or perhaps variations on that...

Oh sure. But that isn't the only thing they symbolized, because we humans living on this world with only the one species of humanoid tend to read race into D&D races, which is why this whole aspect of the game has become a colossal minefield. Correctly pointing out that they are actually hybrids...

For those who know the fantasy lore of a particular setting, sure. Having clearly labeled biracial options in the PHB spoke to people in a way that never will. I knew that D&D was full of half-elves and half-orcs many years before I ever played an actual game of it.

Personally my budget and price points for cool indy projects and my budget and price points for mass produced WotC products in Walmart or wherever are different things. And yes, a boxed set that is the entire game is a very different prospect than one that anticipates you buying a set of core...

Well those are leveled spells, and we were talking cantrips (ie: the caster's equivalent unlimited resource). I see a goalpost moving. The fact that I've accepted that figuring out the consequences of big spells will slow down combat does not mean that I want to slow down the resolution of...

Well I got all the 5e starter sets because I thought their adventures were really solid ones which hit all the classic D&D notes, and fun starting points to build my own things off of. At the old price points I didn't mind paying for some extra bits of paper or cardboard, a set of dice, etc. I...

A cantrip turn for a non-warlock caster soon becomes a rare, "didn't have something better to do" occasion, whereas the weapon properties are going to get spammed from levels 1-20, many on multiple attacks per round. Also the cantrips that did those things were generally the less damage...

See from my perspective it's more that they came back with a name that doesn't normalize being biracial the way D&D used to, and I felt it was more accepting the way it was.

Nay, nay, nay. I also appreciate the intent. It makes different weapon types more distinct, but it should be entirely player side and resolved in their turn to run well. If it was like, this weapon does an extra d4 on a crit and this other weapon gets a bonus attack under X circumstances I'd be...