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I recently wrote a quick review of every single 5E that came out so far for a Turkish hobby site, so I am actually quite prepared to talk about this! The books that I gave the lowest scores were: Hoard of the Dragon Queen + Rise of Tiamat - This dead horse has been flogged a thousand times...

Is it me or am I the only one who finds that halberd to be useless? It stuns you when you attack with it if you're not a construct - and nobody is. I had Karlach use it once and then binned it. How do you guys deal with the drawback?

Well, we agree on these points at least! But I wonder whether you think A5E's crafting system overcomes these issues then. So maybe this is something specific to my table, but I did attempt something similar to this at some point. I said they couldn't go find materials for any item wily-nily...

I agree in principle that giving players the freedom to craft the items they want and face challenges with the preparation they come up with is very rewarding, and integral to sandbox style play. In a system where the power level of magic items is properly factored in, I'd have absolutely no...

On the one hand, I dislike it when a thread devolves into something completely unrelated. On the other hand, the original topic was becoming insanely annoying, so I'm happy it devolved into something else.

I am absolutely in favour of artists, inventors and scientists making a living off of their creations (and thus be encouraged to create more). As long as copyright serves that purpose, it's great. I also think these protections extending to anything beyond one generation of close family...

I am absolutely aphantasic, I can only maintain very simple images in my head. Still, conveying TTRPG narratives only through verbal and textual descriptions in a setting of friends sat around a table (or worse, friends in a Discord call!) still immerses me more than video games. I can...

The supplies had started becoming a problem for me towards the end of Act 1 - mostly because there aren't that many occasions to buy supplies until you've cleared the situation with the Grove and Goblins. After that, it's a breeze though - I just send whatever food comes my way back to my camp...

To be frank, I haven't seen a big difference in Act 3 performance with Patch 2. I turned off two settings that apparently cause some issues (dynamic crowds and something else), but I still needed to lower my graphics settings in order to get a decent enough FPS.

Oh man, I'm writing a philosophy PhD thesis on narratives and you're wrong. Not every sequence of events automatically makes a narrative. A narrative is a narrative because there are meaningful connections - in terms of agency, explanatory power, and so on. So no, you're wrong in saying that the...

The mods needed to intervene on such a post just one page ago.

You can, sure. But that's the specific aesthetic that I'm chasing when I'm playing TTRPGs, so it's important to me. I don't deny that other people might have different priorities when they play TTRPGs, but it's particularly grating when people essentially insinuate that those who chase any...

My point was that the game achieved immersion despite it being a video game with a lot of gamist mechanics. And what made it a great moment was not the turn-based system or having explicit game rules. It was the fact that I could think like a Barbarian whose weak Wizard friend is stuck on the...

Why? Because TTRPGs aren't simple board games. I'm playing them for something beyond simple ludic enjoyment. I'm playing TTRPGs for immersion. Immersion means that the game's fiction isn't just a pretext to have some fun. There's a genuine element of escapism, of feeling like I am transported...

Well, that sucks for Minthara fans. With my real life work still getting nowhere near done, I'm more and more tempted to keep my playthrough on hold until more and more stuff is patched...

Or a philosopher of language. They've got some craaaazy theories about how we name things.

Huh, have you got a source on this? I remember seeing a tweet about how almost everything about Minthara was blocked by an incredibly small and stupid bug (in Swen's words), which made me think that this would be an obvious fix for Patch 2.

Ah, that I guess is pretty sensible.

I'm not sure about varied XP rates, but reaching level 20 with multiclass is already modded in! https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/570 It apparently still can't do spell slots beyond a 12th-level caster, though.

Wasn't the comment you quoted earlier saying that they allow people to increase any stat they want regardless of the kind of stronghold they built? That's completely against what I said I prefer (that is, strongholds only increasing stats that are thematically related to them). I may have...