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I am so sorry; you are 100% correct! Wildspire are good guys!

Is the design intent to have firearms as a primary weapon for a certain kind of build or subclass? Or are they more like one use items that a character might use before switching to their primary weapon? The action economy seems challenging for a character specializing in firearms.

I'm not sure what has you writing so angrily (I didn’t quote the part where you are implicitly swearing) but a KS taking TWELVE YEARS to fulfill is not how the system is supposed to work. Obviously, you pay your money, you take your chances with a KS, but folks have every write to be upset when...

With miniatures-based Kickstarters, which are my main thing, the stretch goals are the difference between me backing or not. For Reaper and Dungeons and Lasers KSs, the stretch goals can double the value of your pledge, basically. However, I think this falls into the category of what the OP...

This New Yorker article is fairly long, but the writer, an author themselves, offered a thoughtful take on the question, "what if readers like AI writing?" https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-if-readers-like-ai-generated-fiction

We just watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Most of my family members like it, including my kid, but I really hate that film. Chevy Chase just comes off like a clueless jerk (honestly, what do his neighbours do to deserve everything he does to them?), the jokes are all dumb, most of...

It can be done - Matt Mercer, for example, runs far fewer combats and has a lot more social and exploration play happening - but D&D does tend to default towards combat as the ultimate means of dispute resolution, even in his games. It's always been this way - more so, back in 1e, at least as I...

With point buy and background increases to ability scores, MAD classes are not a problem. My monk started with 16 wis/16 dex/14 con/10 str/10 char/8 int, which is great.

Speak for yourself! I, for one, had wondered for ages why Han always called Chewbacca "Chewie." Such a mystery!

I appreciate when someone tries to change themselves. Over the course of his life, cut tragically short, it seems like Lennon did so. I think Happy Christmas (War is Over) has lovely verses, and the lyrics aren’t super deep but well intentioned. At least, unlike the sentimental sap of so many...

Merry Christmas, and I hope the KS Santa comes through for all of us, in the end!

"Life is sometimes crappy and unfair and so sometimes your RPG character should be too" is not a compelling argument for me. But there is nothing stopping players from choosing worse scores if they want to experience that.

I don't see any major shifts in D&D happening any time in the near future. DDB is now integral to the game, which means D&D needs to evolve gradually, like with the 2024 update. Which is also WotC's emphatic position: no more "editions" (in the old sense of a D&D edition) and instead incremental...

I'm curious as to your reasoning for turning firearms into spells, effectively? It raises a lot of balance issues. For example, they now function essentially like cantrips, but offensive cantrips are essentially a low-damage option intended to give spellcasters an option to cotnribue a little...

Inherent disparity makes those games MUCH worse if you aspire to be more than a spectator at the highest levels. You can argue that it makes them better entertainment, but I don't think disparity makes them better games. Whereas in a tabletop game, we don't have to have random disparity. So why...

What my students had a problem with was the obvious inequity built into the rules. It was like starting a soccer game where some players might, randomly, only get to wear one shoe. Yes, you can argue it's fair in that everyone has the same chance of being advantaged/disadvantaged...but how does...

I feel, very strongly, that some mysteries are best left unexplained and to the audience’s imagination, especially in horror. Everything we learn about the Xenomorphs origins makes the films less scary. The original premise was haunted house, but in space. Cameron successfully turned that into...

I believe Gillian said ten seasons (!!!) but Seahorn said 3-4?

Was at a family gathering last night and the Jim Carrey Grinch was on. I really dislike that film, whereas I love the original animated version (the most recent animated version is…fine. Unremarkable). I think it’s because in order to make Seuss’s story into a feature they had to create a...

You had extraordinarily bad luck, then. 4d6 drop one produces a slightly better average total than standard array without rerolling ones. Doing it 6x6 times and getting only one result outside of 10-14 is mathematically almost impossible. Which got me thinking: the three options in the PHB are...