Recent content by FitzTheRuke

I've said it before. I'm no 4e hater (I liked it, in fact) but the editing. Woof, the editing. We used to flip through them to spot errors as a mini-game - usually several in a single quick flip-through! We used to say, "Did anyone bother to read this before sending it to press?" 5e books...

Now, here I just disagree: 2024 D&D has the best layout for character creation that the game has ever had. It's different than you're used to, which may throw you off, but IMO, it's a significant improvement.

That checks out with Crawford's overall style. Personally, I don't think "troll those who are overly fixated on the letter-of-the-law" is a good way to teach them to relax, even if I agree that relaxing is in all our best interests. In the very least, trolling is not very kind.

You got me there. You can no longer trust Google to answer a fact-based, real-world basic piece of information with the truth. I suppose that was always sort-of true with things like Wikipedia, but let's just say - I think the internet used to be closer to a place where you could find true...

I was gonna say: If Reddit is your only source of good information, the world is doomed.

I'd argue it's the other way around - it's only pedantic to claim that they don't get high level spells because they don't cast them in the "normal way". IMO, by all reasonable measures, they absolutely have and cast high-level spells.

I like involved set-piece encounter traps that run like monsters, except the solution isn't (at least, not always) to just "hit it until it drops". An example would be the one that I call "The Grinder". It's a little "gotcha", but it's fun: The party is at a staircase leading down. The first one...

I mean, it looked like the only response to your joke was one of agreement?

Yikes. Strange and incorrect takes. I feel like YouTubers are getting more and more like this all the time.

Team Fusion With psychic coordination through Darius and the others keeping an eye-out, Shade-9 calculated that it was best to proceed. The Hydra had not spotted him, hunkered down in the silt at the base of the ridge. He would have to slowly shuffle forward, and see if he could slip the Idol...

It occurs to me that Team Fusion might be waiting on me, when I've been waiting on you, perhaps mistakenly, because I didn't ask for any particular check or post. So - see my quick update.

Talk about survivor! Impressive.

I don't believe that time is actually a thing. Change my mind.

Slipping? There's always been mistakes in D&D books! I used to play a game with a friend to see how many we could find in a ten-minute flip-through! Mistakes always happen. The 2024 PHB didn't originally list the time it takes to Don or Doff a Shield, for example. But it was tight compared to...

I would say that it allows you to pick your spot, then change it (by a bit) after you see where everyone else is situated, including visible enemies, without anyone complaining. It's not great but it's not too bad.