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How dare a short rest class wants to actually use their abilities! The Gall! We have had 2 encounters and the Warlock cast a spell in both encounter? No more spells for you today, because we are under a time crunch. Don't like it? Well you should have though of that before you played a Warlock.

Well the DMs I usually play with Do tend to either chain encounters together, or we only tend to have 1 or 2 encounters per day. Because of this, my groups short rest classes tend to get the short end of the stick. Having different classes use different recharge rates for their abilities may...

Has anyone ever actually used a dagger, light hammer, or sickle yet in 5e? I suppose a character might use daggers for the thrown and finesse property, but that is still the case in 1dnd. The light hammer and sickle are still useless. That is kind of on purpose though. Light hammers and...

Except none of those games are sold by the same company. Traveler 5 is Far Future Enterprises, Cepheus Engine is made by Moon Toad publishing, and Mongoose Traveller is obviously Mongoose Publishing. This isn't a company selling a simpler and a complex version of the game, it is 3 different...

No one can hate the things they love quite like nerds can.

The thing with the errata's in Essentials was that 4th edition was incredibly heavy handed with them. Sure Essentials had new rules for skill challenges, but they were actually the 4th or 5th different errata for them. It got to the point where probably half the the content in the books had...

Based on what we have seen so far, its not exactly a lot of work to update from 5e to 1D&D. It only takes a few minutes to update a subclass from 5E to 1D&D. A developer could wait until the new rules are almost out to start working on new products, or they could start working on products now...

You do see people making those sorts of claims, but Morrus and the mod team do a good job smacking that crap down, and banning people who post it. However what you do see is lot of people saying there is nothing wrong with using "race", that D&D has not history of racism, and dismissing the...

We have the playtest. Even if we don't know exactly what the final rules will be, we have some indication. Game developers and going to develop games. I can guarantee there are lots of developers who are working on products to release as soon as 1D&D comes out. Even if no one was actually...

Correct me I am wrong but they said they are new OGL license not the new SRD. They are just going to release the contract or license not the actual game rules. Even if they don't know what the actual rules will be, releasing the terms of the OGL will let developers decide if they are terms...

Ok you got me, Indians were also stereotyped as "Nobel Savages". That isn't any better. Positive stereotypes are not better than negative ones. Indians were not some magical nature spirits, they were just normal people with their own vast array of cultures and societies, just like everyone...

Lots of people are confused and upset about the changes. Releasing the new OGL will at least let people understand the issue, instead of getting worked up about internet speculation. I don't think It will please everyone, and lots of people will still be upset, but at least they will be upset...

I'm sorry in i misunderstood your post. What I was responding to was On first read I took it as you were saying both that race was problematic and should be changed and that it is not something that people should care about. They are mutually exclusive things, which is why I asked you a...

Revenants aren't exactly a race either. It wouldn't be a bad idea to have a separate category of templates someone can add to a character that aren't inherent to their species. Things like Revenants, werewolves and the like, that you add on top of your species. With the free background feat...

In science fiction it is completely normal to refer to carbon-based species, silicone based species, or even energy based species. The default terminology is alien species. In the real world we haven't found any aliens yet, but when scientists are talking about the potential, they use alien...

I don't think it is controversial saying that vast swathes of American culture and society has historically demeaned, belittled, mocked and oppressed Indians. For literally decades the most popular film and television genre in the country was based on celebrating murdering Indians, while you...

I think all three are fine. Like you said the important part is that they are all biological not cultural descriptions. I still think species is the best choice because it is much more clearly defined and less confusing. Even if someone has never played D&D or any RPGs at all, if you tell...

Exactly. Casual racisms is just racism so ingrained you do it instinctively without thinking about it. The only way you can claim that the orcs of Thar was not deliberately indented to be racist, is that that author like lots of Americans of his generation didn't actually consider Indians to...

Take a look at Orcs of Thar and Chief Sitting Drool before telling me that D&D never deliberately intended to be racist.