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That is not really my point. I don't want to continue side-tracking this thread, but just to clarify: I am not expressing an opinion on the quality nor attempting to define it. I am only pointing out the ways "more content" is not inherently better, assuming you agree with Orius's premise that a...

Then you could have said that in the first place, instead of which is not at all the same thing.

The "promise" is to replace it with a) free time not spent sifting through low-quality monsters, and b) some of your money back because you're buying 1 supplement instead of 2. Sometimes less really is more. It's not something to act incredulous about, even if reasonable people may disagree...

I guess it depends on what kind of scholars you think of. If you think of wizards like liberal arts scholars, no, Fireball doesn't really fit. But if they're more like chemists, physicists, or engineers, then most wizards think explosions are awesome (as long as you don't much care about the...

In fact, the US Supreme Court issues plenty of 9–0 rulings. Except for the two most recent terms, the plurality (and sometimes the majority) of cases have been 9–0 every term since before WotC bought TSR (at least; scotusblog only has stats going back to 1995–06 term). (Source: scotusblog.com)...

In fact, the designers of SECOND edition supposedly wanted to switch to ascending AC, but couldn't because of concerns about backwards compatibility. Something I learned about playtests when working on video games: if players tell you something is a problem, they are almost always right; if...

I don't think it's possible to make real sense of either. They probably never existed and are simply misinterpretations of drawings of armor. However, looking at 1e, I think we can make at least a LITTLE more sense of it: 1e DMG, p. 27: 1e DMG, p. 165: Plates set in the leather to me suggests...

As LLMs exist now, no. If you've tried AI Dungeon, that's sort of what you're talking about, and it can get pretty silly, pretty quickly. It will give responses that contradict previous ones, ignore context, or don't follow logically. It's more like playing D&D in a dream world where things...

It depends on what you mean by "after", because they mostly appear in prequels, and also "see", because in some cases we see their ships but not the creatures, or only their skeletons, or action figures of them. One Gorn appeared in the background in The Animated Series. A Gorn appears in one...

Here's the case: 10 is evenly divisible only by 2 and 5 (and, trivially, 1 and itself). 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6, making it more often convenient to divide. This is why we still have 24 hours per day (often counted 1–12 twice), each divided into 60 (5*12) minutes, divided again into 60...

"Almost" is doing a lot of work there. Of the 7 SI base units, we use normally use 3, arguably 4. Of those 3, the second long predates SI and doesn't use base 10 or follow the usual SI rules. (How often have you heard someone unironically measure time in "kiloseconds"?), amperes have never...

Water breathing: the material component of the spell is a short reed or piece of straw. A snorkel. Enchanted Weapon: The material components of this spell are powdered lime and carbon. Whitewash. Fumble: The material component for this spell is a dab of solidified milk fat. Butterfingers...

Both the goldfish swallowing fad and Cleopatra's pearl dissolved in wine have origins in "eating weird things to win a bet". Why that relates to Identify in particular, I don't get.

David Frost: So what in a sense, you're saying is that there are certain situations, and a crit that would one-shot a PC is one of them, where the GM can decide that it's in the best interests of the game or something, and cheat. Richard Nixon: Well, when the GM does it, that means that it is...

It does say it in the DMG:

Yeah, AD&D magic-users were intentionally designed to suck at low levels and be the most powerful at high levels. The 1e PHB explicitly says In 1e, 1st level magic-users had 1d4 HP (probably no Con bonus) and could cast 1 1st-level spell a day. So in a sense, it was "fair" that they got to be...

This is a top to, you know, what we use on the table, but it's very, very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to 30. Look, right across the board, 30, 30, 30 and... Oh, I see. And most editions go up to 20? Exactly. Does that mean it's more powerful? Is it any more powerful...

Comet 20 Donjon 14 Eurayle 20 The Fates 21 Flames 21 Fool 20 Gem 18 - 2 = 16 Idiot 14 Jester 21 Key 20 Knight 20 Moon 23 Rogue 21 Ruin 23 Skull 23 Star 22 Sun 20 Talons 20 Throne 20 + 1 = 21 Vizier 21 The Void 12