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That can also be said about every other setting.

No, you’re just being pedantic. There is no meaningful difference between the two phrases. The gods don’t have to be worshipped to exist, my dude. The only people worshipping Asmodeus are power hungry who don’t care what his ultimate goals are. Frankly it would make even more sense to just...

Agreed. Just break it entirely away from the drunken master. Or, if the issue is more that some people didn’t like the theme and the name was harder to construct as Warrior of X, lean further into the weaving through and around enemies and the reactive aspect of the subclass mechanically and...

if my cousin who has actually grown up identifying and being identified as a Mexican makes a joke about Mexicans or parodies a Mexican media trope or the like, it isn’t racist. If I do it, it is racist. Even if I learned the joke from him. Now the original 5e Drunken Master does a decent job...

Yeah….completely nonsensical, as the actual martial arts tradition being referenced doesn’t involve intoxication

Lol okay, you don’t like. That isn’t the same thing as having no built in conflicts. Nah. The “evil” gods are defined by wanting to destroy the world, that’s why they’re evil. It makes vastly more sense than the standard D&D cosmology, where mortals nonsensically worship openly evil gods.

Strongly disagree. Opposing empires, gods that want to destroy the world, and at least 4 very distinct continents with very different history and culture, just as a quick couple picks.

😂 how on earth….lol Barovia has a lot of the same letters I guess

See, but Tolkien wrote from a place of hope in darkness, and a world worth saving. From the standpoint that people are good but can be corrupted, rather than that people are corrupt but can rise to the moment in rare cases and do soemthing good. So I don’t really know that I believe JA on that...

So, I will say first that 4e’s implied setting, Nerath or Nentir Vale or Points of Light Land, Föraeia, whatever you want to call it, is actually very hopefully. The world is in a bad state for civilization right now, but heroes and regular folk working together can improve things, and those...

Agreed Okay but consider If it takes multiple books for anyone to not be either terrible, doomed to failure because the book seems very much in the first story to take the stance that good people are weaker than bad people, or both, it doesn’t matter what the eventual pay off is. Effectively...

I’d say it’s so grimdark, HBO show, “everyone sucks, always”, that it cannot count. It doesn’t look fondly or kindly on anything, to a degree that felt very forced by the time I was done reading the second one (that I read, idk if it was strictly in order but I think so, it’s been a long time)...

Lore wise the Paladin isn’t getting their magic from Genies, they’re getting power from Faith and oath and investment. This subclass is odd though.

I just hope they’re doing something interesting with Shade.

Gathering Storm: A Trip To The Library (Context since I don’t post most sessions) Previously… Two years ago: the heroes known in the papers as The Storm Breakers attended a Day of Mourning memorial that turned into a terrorist attack by an aberrant Dragonmarked mutant. The mutant ended up...