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I mean, it's a ribbon feature until it interjects to spoil the DM's plans. It's kind of just one more thing hemming in what sort of challenges DMs can effectively throw at players, and one more thing DM's have to remember when planning, while at the same time being something that will never come...

Alright, question for my own 5e clone design needs: If Aura of Protection just added half your Charisma mod, rounded up, would Paladin's still be sufficiently incentivized to invest in Charisma?

This ad doubles as an ad for the monster manual. As an advertised point of pride no less!

But the astounding thing about that is they still don't seem to be very good at making things simple. Or at least not simple in a useful way. I mean, I get it, it's very hard for a game designer to not introduce more complexity than is necessary. Being someone who likes game complexity is...

I voted very low. Up through playtest packet 3 I was displeased but still fairly deeply invested. But the whole OGL thing both made OneD&D's absolute brand dominance seem less all-consuming, and got me hard at work making my own 5e clone taking advantage of the CC-SRD, and whether or not that...

In the early 90s I think the Star Tours gift shops basically just stocked all Star Wars merch that was being manufactured at the time (it wasn't all that much).

I was actually just leaving a Target earlier today, and found myself thinking about what a well run retailer it is. Gold standard in big box stores as far as I'm concerned.

I would pick that in a heartbeat, except that singular "Vagabond" is the title of an upcoming indie steam game that is also a fantasy rpg, and there are several other game or rpg products which come up on a search for "Vagabonds rpg". It would be hard to make search optimization ever work out...

I mean, I take the point, but I don't die on purpose in legend of zelda as soon as I lose the shooting sword. Other people's mileage perhaps varies. But there must be some level of benefit that both makes a character above x threshold feel extra cool, but doesn't overly incentivize never pushing...

Yeah, to clarify I really meant more that WotC will eventually diverge more from 5e in a subsequent edition whereas 5e probably has a long life after they do it. OneD&D is still on track to be a 5e clone. My thinking was that after OneD&D proves anemic in sales due to what I foresee as it's...

I think part of the problem is that these sorts of things are often just imposed on characters as an afterthought, as a negative penalty. The better angle to take is the old Legend of Zelda "your sword shoots when you're at full health" approach. Have some special things characters can do when...

Oh god, I had a player who carried a lost myconid child they were helping in a babybjorn through like half the campaign. We'd constantly forget it was there and then we'd always remember when I hit the group with an AoE that would kill it. I eventually had to rule that it could go into a...

I think the fates of "5e" and "D&D" diverged the day WotC released the 5e SRD under creative commons, and the divergence will only increase over time. And thus anti-D&Dism and anti-5eism will diverge more over time. For every designer who took the OGL fiasco as time to reevaluate their...

Van Damme isn't the good kind of bad, he's the stupid kind of awesome. Your evaluation of Steven Seagal is accurate.

Certainly better than any scene featuring the protagonists of that movie. I could have forgiven the dumb plot and terrible dragon cgi, but what absolutely kills the 2000 movie is that I find the adventuring party annoying and unlikable. While you can never judge a movie for certain based on...

AI art is already doing that for us. It's our best defense against itself! I will say that I really like that of the tells of AI art at the moment is that it usually fails to include a belly button when their should be one visible. Very appropriate error when depicting a person who was never born.

So I have a 5e clone more or less ready to start playtesting, but it's provisional name Vagabonds and Varlets, while a fun conversation starter when talking about the game with friends, is that in part because of it's problem: as a title to actually market something with, the overwhelming...

The harder actual effective censorship gets in the world the louder would be censors have to scream their disapproval at clouds and passers by.

In proper 5e even those who don't care about their familiar in that way made a judgement call about whether the fight was worth risking 10 gold of incense, and being familiar-less until the next short rest. A situation which also means the more familiar-protective players weren't being entirely...

My own 5e clone game has a handful of narrow, but fairly certain to come up occasionally, "social abilities". For example at level 4 the Sellsword class gets the "Tough Negotiator" ability to add an extra d8 to rolls to negotiate over payment for quests or other services rendered by the group...