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That was the 5e.2014 rules. The 5e.2024 has removed the incorporeal part of that rule.

Not just preventing PC abuse. Think of how much trouble a DM can cause with incorporeal undead occupying walls or floors and attacking from a largely unassailable location.

When I first encountered it? No idea - it's always been in the environment around me in some ways. But we definitely encountered it in elementary school. Various stories would be in our reading instructing texts.

She may not be wrong in her assessment of continual governmental attempts to reconstruct the program, but her solution comes from her being broken by her experiences. I think that puts her on a path to become a tertiary villain behind Vecna and Dr. Kay. And I think that's kind of sad, in a...

It's entirely possible to have various rituals, even some teasing, when it comes to PC death and not be a "Killer DM". Lighting a character sheet on fire in a public game may be a bit much (I keep my character sheets even from one-shots at conventions as records of the games I've played), but...

The first GM I had for the game described the threat symbol as soccer balls and advantage symbols goalies catching the balls. And that actually did make them easier to pair off when reviewing dice results.

Since there's a teaser trailer for it, that would be an enormous failure to fire Chekhov's Gun. That baby's gonna have some significance - you can count on it.

I prefer rolling in general. I like to have my character revealed to me - or at least certain aspects of the character - so then I can see what I can make of them. For other pro-rolling arguments, I do have a couple: 1) The stat values are independent variables. One isn't higher because one is...

Oh, I've been... maybe not exactly there... but in a similar neighborhood. Sounds like she's having a pretty rough time of it. I don't want to just say "It gets better" because it's still pretty tough to get through. But assuming her immune system isn't compromised by something else (always a...

The Dunlendings are basically the widespread inhabitants of parts of Middle Earth who have been pushed aside and off their ancestral lands by other, high-competitive migrant cultures - the Númenóreans and later the Rohirrim. They have long memories, at least in their stories, and long-held...

Yeah, and I wonder if we're thinking of the same person.

There was also the 'zine scene. All of these debates about how to run/play D&D from adversarial (even extremely so) to far more cooperative with the players have been raging for virtually as long as D&D has existed. Jon Peterson's The Elusive Shift is quite the chronicle. Granted, the 'zines...

As I see it, this is just one of the trade-offs involved in game design. Sometimes, you know the game will be easier to work with on the back-end as a designer or developer if you do make a particular decision - so it's a mechanics-first decision, rather than fiction-first. And, honestly, all...

It was, in fact, a forest of huorns.

I don't think that's really unexplained. Just mysterious to the men of Rohan who heard it pass by. But the answer you seek was in the following paragraph wherein the people who stayed at the Hornburg witnessed the departure of the forest - herded by the ents. The strong implication is that the...

I can see this is a serious discussion.

I think being less restrained and more open in the use of his power probably has less to do with being a new reincarnation or even being promoted to the white robes. Rather, this is his time. The job he was sent to do is coming to a climax, for good or bad, and the time for the subtlety he used...

Well, that's the thing, right? If you approached it with that attitude, it was never going to work for you. But if you had buy in from all the players and DM, it would work just fine. Just because D&D has stuff in it doesn't mean it's gotta be deployed in every campaign. The fact that it's...

Yeah, that's one of the Peter Jackson changes that didn't sit well with me in the Two Towers. I'm not sure what the grammatical error here would be. It's largely the same sentence in my version, just with crawled and groped reversed in position. I think it may be a layout error to leave an...