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You're really posturing hard. Subprime mortgages were completely regulated. How did that work out for the Marxist science fiction writers?

And what would that be? Inflation? Sure, call me a fEAr mOngEr because I'm saying inflation is a problem with Fiat Currency.

There's two things that are quite glaring in these arguments against Block Chain and Crypto Currency: 1) Detractors rely on Fear Mongering - Bad for the environment is not a valid argument, especially on the internet. It absolutely reeks of fear mongering. 2) Global Finance Opposes Them - The...

Gygax covers this in his book "Rules Mastery" (or the other one) when he describes the development of D&D from being a miniatures based war game to an RPG. The Thief (skilled class) was the missing link. In a minis war game you had your medic (cleric), artillergy (wizard), and armored tank...

This is exactly what I meant when I said that Rangers need a permanent Beast Bond with their Animal Companion. There are too many commonplace situations where the interaction between the Ranger and their pet doesn't makes sense because it's just a guy and his dog. Even if his pet spots...

Boba Fat was mediocre. They took Star Wars laconic bounty hunter and turned him into an Amway salesman. The gangs were corny. It was the West Side Story: Mos Espa edition. Riding around on Vespa scooters with a cyber eye and a sidearm, eager to join up the next crime boss. Seriously, no one...

I have buyer's remorse over "Strixhaven." The UA articles were far more innovative than the book. Adding bonus feats to backgrounds is very lazy game design. I don't like the tedium of Relationship Points either. It's too much like a video game. Not to mention, at least half of the...

As someone who takes public transportation to work I can assure you that's not the case.

I voted that magic should have a "mystical" component to it, because by definition it should. One of the narratives that I've been using in my Eberron campaign is "previously unknown magic." Baked into the Eberron lore is a terrifying, powerful, but lost magic in the 13th Dragonmark: the Mark...

The thing about pets is I've been DMing a group for 5 years now, and one of them is a 20th level Ranger Beastmaster. I think the player is getting ahead of themselves. At lower levels your animal companion will have Advantage on Perception checks from their Keen Senses so you want them to...

I saw Hammerfast on shelves years ago but never picked it up. I've just read a review and I'm hooked! What a dense product too! Unlike a kitschy super-dungeon, Hammerfast seems more like the mini-campaign world setting you'd find in an AD&D module. Another tragedy of great content lost in...

DAT is one of my favorite D&D artists, right up there with Jeff Easley. Those two are responsible for me losing entire days staring at their work. The Monster Manual and DMG were something else. They seemed both authentically ancient tomes and instruction manuals at the same time. The AD&D...

What I like the most about this news is the fact that lots of money is being made but WotC isn't flooding the market with crap product like a backed up toilet. Living through the heyday of 2e and 3e I saw the D&D world inundated with crap. This is not to say there weren't gems, and I could...

I want quality, thematically consistent art. I'd rather than fewer pictures so long as they're higher quality. Having said that, what's important to me is races, classes, and monsters. When I'm buying a Monster Manual I want to see every single monster, no exceptions. Even skeletons? Yep...

Your question answers itself. Walls keep things out, especially armies. In D&D everything has a CR, and the most common are low CR and move around on foot, that includes things like criminals and armies. Should we bother elaborating? It's best if really big stone wall is between you and...

My group is very interested in Dark Souls 5e, probably because they expect me to run it. Since I never played the vidya I'm only intrigued by the new mechanics. Not to mention, with every variation on a D&D ruleset there's something to steal for house rules. Previous editions of D&D have...

We kept using Bloodied. Easily the most innovative mechanic from 4e that should be a core D&D attribute.

I've run a Rod of Seven Parts campaign and I found it was better to create new worlds rather than take from others. I figured avoiding the clutter and backstory of established worlds (though I did use Darksun) was a good way to narrowly focus on a story and metaplot. The campaign started on...

In my past two campaigns (previous and current) it was important to have Drow as any alignment. In my last campaign there was one particular place where the Drow were horribly evil, but didn't necessarily follow Lolth, and Orcs were very evil. In my current campaign, which is Eberron, Orcs and...

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