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Just now joining in at the original questions: 1.) No, I don't think that is railroading. 2.) As a player, my definition is when the player stops havign fun as they try to get off the train at a reasonable place but cannot. They are further forced to act out the rest of the adventure without the...

Yes, I was always sort of upset that there was never a campaign appropriate in 3E to taking all those mounted combat feats. A knight with a lance always seemed like they'd be a fearsome foe. I'd like to see a campaign or just a large sandbox wilderness adventure that is mostly set in an above...

Since this is the current version forum section, I went with 5.24. Fireball has a range of 150'. Shortbow and longbow have ranges of 80/320 and 150/600 respectfully. They could shoot at disadvantage well outside of fireball range. There's only six damage dealing spells capable of hitting at...

We're talking mounted archers. Stay separated and far away. Bows have a much greater range than a fireball spell. And mounted warriors should have more than one mount.

I'm IT, and for my entire group we think it is mostly hype. We do have some professional uses of AI, and I have personally been involved in for around ten years now, but these are hyperfocused cases of pattern matching. Meanwhile, I've been working with it in cases some of our users want to use...

I don't think I would consider it stupid. What we call irrational, sure. Once dealing with ideas of Pure <whatever>, it stops working on the ruleset we understand, because they are working with a different ruleset. I don't think good "winning" would destroy the world, but certainly change it. An...

I think what I would like to see would have been a book with adventure(s) based on people finding and using the hand and eye of Vecna, artifacts that they are. Let their powers even change from person to person, modeled after the corrupted desires of that person. That's where all Vecna's charm...

I could certainly give you examples of "too much good", but they'd be my interpretations. However, it has been proposed that Forgotten Realms in the past has had that problem, in that there are too many good NPCs running around dealing with all the issues and incompetent evil NPCs for PCs to...

I'm old fashioned. Vecna's personality will always be the corrupted personality of whatever fool attaches his hand, eye, or both.

I assume they mean verjuice or verjus, highly acidic juice made by pressing unripe grapes, and autocorrupt probably changed it.

As somebody that worked a lot of pizza in the 80's and 90's, pineapple was an uncontroversial standard topping, although usually pared with ham, until the internet arrived and people started fake outrage over fairly common things to drive clicks/troll and/or because they forgot anchovies exist...

Yes, but they are more their portfolios and unless their portfolio is of good/evil/law/chaos, the given alignment of the people facing avatar can change up to one degree typically. So, for example, what is considered generally as a neutral god of death could have an evil aspect that governs...

Since most pies in my world are containers for the food, the cheese would normally just go inside the pie with the apples.

Well, the utilitarian answer is ask your DM as they're the only one that can answer that for the game you are in (and perhaps not even then). IMC (or at least most of them), True Neutral would seek to limit the effects of the outer planes. The prime material is not good or evil, lawful or...

Oh, this reminds me to do my AI training today in brainstorming various ideas for various problem solving environments ( ie I'm going to go ask it for a list of encounter ideas for D&D, in a Dungeon Master voice, that I can glean for game.)

Not for me. I've reached point in my life where I have gotten rid of all my little plastic toys and tchotchkes and don't need any more. Excuse me, I have go paint my minis now.

I'm going to say at 3E. It had a lot of good ideas, but generally I think the execution of game design failed on multiple accounts and a lot of those resulted in the class tier system we saw and how fighters ended up one of the lowest. Take all the classes and make them use the same XP...

Sounds interesting. Especially since I was thinking about applying mechanical penalties and benefits to the various Lifestyles and then requiring certain level of gear and expertise to maintain those lifestyles while adventuring in the wilderness.

I generally say the Great Wheel exists and is as presented int eh books, the same way a five minute explanation of quantum mechanics is correct (for the audience). However, the outer planes are not the afterlife. Instead each world in the Prime Material also contains their own afterlife tailored...

I'm a fan of existential cosmic threats personally. Not the world shattering kind, but ones that slowly spread darkness until everybody has no choice but to submit to see anymore. Invasion of ineffible outsider entities that seek to corrupt the world to more their liking. Also, to continue the...