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The Outer Worlds, Pentiment, and definitely Avowed (as with its cringey companions and tendency to drown the player in abtruse lore). But I suspect you and I just have different aesthetic sensibilities, since I also disagree with you about the earlier games! That's not the impression I got from...

You're forgetting about Chris Avellone, who was at least as important as Sawyer was to preserving the tone and feel of the original Black Isle games; what's more, I doubt it's an accident that Obsidian's games have been slowly but steadily declining in quality—with increasingly overwrought and...

Fair! I won't try to speak for Hussar, but even I don't think that! (I might quibble with the semantics a bit, but that would be really too pedantic!) As long as you agree that some opinions can--and at least in some contexts should--be based on facts and/or reasons, we're good. This makes me...

Don't bring a dictionary to a logic fight. Nothing in the OED definition of "opinion" conflicts with anything Hussar said at all. If Xs are not necessarily Y, the only thing that follows is that if something's an X, it's possible that it could also be Y. It obviously doesn't follow either that...

Drood! I mean, good. And dread. Dread and good.

Fair point, but things can do a lot of damage at those levels--critical hits and other big attacks still have a solid chance of forcing a save your caster wouldn't be able to make.

Yep! I opened the thread half expecting someone to have posted that "always was" astronaut's meme. (This feels like an apropos time to link to my favorite character optimization document ever.) But, yeah, getting a ton of temporary hit points doesn't in itself seem especially overpowered for a...

Thanks for the interesting & thoughtful reply. fwiw, I interpreted Paizo's motivation as I did because it was described as an aim to "move away from the real-world negative historical connotations of the inquisitor," rather than just to capture a wider range of concepts. But that might've been...

Okay, hardly an original objection, but: what harm would keeping "inquisitor" have done? Does anyone seriously think that Paizo is implicitly endorsing any of the historical Inquisitions by using the name, or feel personally distressed when they see it? It's not a big deal, of course, but I'm...

depressingly realistic! :(

I knew everything, too! Shame I forgot it.

Well, it's a forum created as part of a site dedicated to giving news about the then-in-development 3e. The 2024 revision of 5e is no more "our" game than any other descendant of D&D is.

This one isn't. Which one should D&D encounters feel more like?

After all these years, I continue to hold out hope that at least one of those projects involves FIGHT BATTLE!!!

(warning: this is also spoilery!) It might seem like a nitpick, but I think it's indicative of the adventure's guiding philosophy that it uses Vecna's new & controversial statblock (which greatly reduces his spellcasting in favor of simple, spammable damage and recovery abilities). If you like...

But there are some sane posters!

So they keep the same engine, but use it to produce an infinity of new content? (I spent five minutes trying to devise a corresponding "Gold Box" pun, but came up short. In any case, this strategy has certainly worked for D&D computer games before!)

At this risk of piling on, this raises a more general point that I don't think gets made enough: dismissing criticism like this as (objectionable) "negativity" or (as I've seen elsewhere) "commerce-shaming" is a way of siding with business interests against consumers. It undercuts our collective...

Well, I CAN think of a story, though it's kind of a downer...