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So...it...won't result in the end of reality? Because if that's so, then the Neutral is either Evil With Good Publicity, or Evil In Denial With Extra Steps.

But all that's doing is saying that the faction labelled "Good" is really just stupid. That's the problem here. When you make Neutral (on the G/N/E axis) into "we're actually protecting all of us by preventing the end of the universe", you're making them into the Actually Good faction--the...

There are three pathways by which "True Neutral" can be made to work--but you've already excluded one of them. The first is, as you say, more or less the assertion that what we call "Good" is not actually Good; it is merely the force that, ordinarily, is most similar to Good. And, likewise, the...

Much as I am a skeptic about AI, a friend of mine who works as a vet tech has specifically said that the introduction of AI summary tools has made his job a lot easier. It can automatically grab all the important details from forms (assuming the form was filled out correctly, which I know is not...

Which cosmology--the one known and accepted, based on all observable evidence available to the finest natural and esoteric philosophers? Or the truth? 😄 According to all data available to Waziri mages and other, non-magical observers, there are only and exactly three observable planes: the...

If only there were a way for something to truly belong to one and only one class, rather than being a spell on several classes' spell lists and still accessible to people with the right feat or ability to poach spells. Some kind of....class component, by which one and only one class could...

While that is some interesting context, if anything it makes my concerns grow, not shrink. Now we're hearing that there wasn't just one "oops, we dropped the plot", but multiple? Even if this came from a reasoned and well-supported choice to limit the scope of the project (a perfectly good thing...

How do you do something like this? How do you just lose the core plot of your major conclusion? This isn't "someone didn't like that direction and chose to go elsewhere". This is "yeah we just sort of dropped the ball because I got moved somewhere else". It's, frankly, sloppy.

Looks reasonable to me. The Nick property allows you to make an attack as part of the Attack action. This attack isn't special in any way (other than which weapon you use for it). You can give up any attack you make as part of the Attack action--if it were meant to eat your whole Action it...

Less "easily overlooked" and more "something people do not wish to accept as true". People want to believe that rules designed for use by PCs can be used perfectly fluidly against PCs with zero problems whatsoever, and that's simply not true. Mages you fight in combats get to unload their...

Not for this thing though. I know you love to inflate the issues with 4e and downplay those of other editions, but on this you are just flat wrong. Yes, they changed the monster math. The change wasn't "oh god, our numbers are so useless you have no idea whether things really work or not, we...

In 5th edition, sure.

I believe this poster is someone who re-defined the casting stat of Sorcerer to Constitution instead of Charisma, so you wouldn't actually be suffering a loss at all, but rather a pretty substantial gain.

I wasn't really thinking of it from a simulationist perspective anyway. I was thinking of it from a fairly gamist stance. There are a lot of things someone-as-a-player would want to be able to do, but which would be a wasted action if that was ALL you could do during the turn. 4e made core...

Perhaps... Prepared Defense: Increase your AC by 1 until an attack hits you, or the beginning of your next turn, whichever comes first. Prepared Offense: Add half your proficiency score to the first damage roll you inflict during your turn. Prepared Mobility: You may move a number of extra feet...

They were trying. "Minor" action wasn't enough to inherently induce readers' brains to think that it wasn't something they HAD to be consuming 100% of the time. That's precisely why they called them "Bonus" actions, because they thought that would inherently make readers think that it was a...

If you're already going to have bonus action spells, I'm not sure what the point is in getting rid of them for various other things? Also, just so you know...divine smite IS a bonus action spell now. Level 1 Evocation Casting Time: Bonus action, which you take immediately after hitting a...

For a lot of people, it seems that the fact that the structure is the same means that whatever you do with that structure is the same. Why they don't then decry the Bard, Cleric, Sorcerer, and Wizard as being "samey", I will never know.

For the former, exceedingly rare, but occasional, e.g. the fact that 5e finally broke from the supremely horrendous BS established in 3e, where Fighters and Barbarians suck at skills for no reason except "because they're Big Stupid Fighters". I know of nothing present in 5e that was present in...

I mean, that one is simple enough. They want greater flexibility in how you can make use of those ride-along actions. Consider something like healing word. In order to circumlocute around the bonus action cast time, you would have to do something like this: "You can cast this spell any time you...