Recent content by FitzTheRuke

AFAICT, the whole reason for "backwards compatibility" was to keep the Adventures in print without needing to revise them. It's part of the whole point.

I don't entirely disagree with you, but there's no need to rewrite lore - as far as I can tell, Orcs have done everything that they have ever done. It's just that by 1501dr in Faerun, many of the various "tribes" have made peace with much of their neighbours. Some still cling to the old ways, or...

I saw it for free (back then, I regularly was comped movie tickets) and I desperately wanted my two hours back. I was robbed.

I think that it would seem right.

I'm looking forward to it as well. I will be back in action around then, I expect. I still miss Snarf, though!

Sorry... you mean businesses can't pay employees the same to work 20 hours as they get for working 40. No, of course not. Not with a snap of the fingers. It would require a whole sea change in how things are done, and that definitely gets onto politics, so we will have to drop it.

I mean, that would be a good thing if humans were, say, reduced to a 20-hour (or less) work week. The trouble is, they'd have to be paid a living wage for that work. Modern business doesn't want to do that.

Yeah, I think we are in deep, too. I left it vague in case anyone thinks that it counts as political. I don't agree that it does, but I have been wrong about that before.

This is great news. D&D is in good hands. @JusticeArman, congratulations!

Man, the only way that I could answer any of your questions would be to watch it. And I am not sure that I want to.

I thought so. I was sure that I remembered your posts. You're like me then - enjoy the thing for a lark, but concerned about the overall impact on skilled professionals. (Mostly, in my case, because I don't trust those with the money to not want to use it to cut others out from their...

Is that Knight in your profile picture not AI generated? I had assumed it was. Either way, I am not a fan of AI in general, but I find the picture programs have their (limited) uses for quickly-generated character and monster pics. I would HATE for humans to lose work over it, though!

I think you lose all credibility that your analysis has any objectivity whatsoever when you describe any and all design that you don't personally like as "lazy". It's too bad, too - I think I'd enjoy a reasonable critical analysis of the classes.

You've hit my point exactly - which is that one might be able to pull off that monstrosity of rules exploits (at level 18, with a combo of spells and magic items no sane DM ought to be allowing) but it's not exactly a threat to the STORY that the OP is suggesting. It's not likely to be wildly...

I mean no disrespect, but I don't imagine that most games assume that the wildest rules exploits actually exist in their worlds - certainly not commonly available to people. And the fastest speed I've ever seen anyone pull off in either D&D or PF was a few hundred feet in a six second round...