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Great question- let's see what we're dealing with here: OK, roll to hit, deals psychic damage on a hit, and it moves them somewhere. If they drop to 0 from it, the mind flayer magically devours its brain. So ... let's say ... it's like ... yeah this one's hard. I think we can get there...

That's similar to the old E6 (epic 6) house-rule from 3e. A lot of folk, including myself, have tried their own hands at it over the editions and especially in 5e. How'd your 5e version work out?

Same problems, appreciate y'all working on it!

Free content? That's nice.

Is this an actual actual adventure path published somewhere?

This is just incorrect. There can be alternatives, but if you're one of the go-to's for the industry (which is one of the steps of enshittification; making yourself a standard for the industry) you can absolutely enshittify- see: Amazon, Uber/Eats, Google search, Reddit, Unity. Perhaps we just...

The "lock-in" isn't literal- it's mental. People COULD go to a different service, but they're so invested in yours and/or yours has been set as a standard; so you can afford to increase the prices and lower the quality to increase profit. You can afford to make promotions for new customers, to...

At the time of its release I just thought the whole vibe of the setting was awesome. I think I was a player primarily at the time but Eberron made me want to run games- I think that's probably one of the high compliments I can pay to a setting. Now I go to it, and KB's blog, for lore...

No noticeable delay; single-digit days? Short memories, is all I'll say. September 2024 is when the unannounced changes (stealth patching) started. April 2025 is when they posted errata, and you can see folk in this thread saying how it would've been helpful for them to list the changes so...

The problem, at least IMO, wasn't that they were making such fixes- it was that for some time they were making them without telling anyone or posting "patch notes." There wasn't an errata list for some time, they'd just change the rules on DnDB and you'd only find out when you went to reference...

People throwing around "DCC" to refer to Carl really screws with my head, since I think Dungeon Crawl Classics.

Pretty sure @SlyFlourish has posted some strong opinions on the topic, see: the Walled Garden. I believe that was more relevant for 3pp but this touches on that. Is it bad for customers? Short-term no, long-term yes. It's the path to enshittificiation. I'd feel bad about using that word so...

I prefer in-person games, but all of my friends that I ran games for for years and years pre-COVID now only want to play online because it's more convenient. So I get why people maybe think one way or the other... I run online because I made it my means to make a living, and because I like the...

Unfortunately, reducing efficacy on the player side is making it easier on the GM but the players feel it more keenly. Whereas if you just ramped up every enemy, the players might feel like the world is a lot more lethal, if all DCs were upped things would feel more difficult, but that would...

I usually hyper focus on an indie game, one at a time. My friend finally caught me between game fixations, at just the right time, to get me back into WoW. For years n years I couldn't imagine playing a tab to target MMO again, even games that I WANTED to like such as ESO I couldn't enjoy. But...