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We are in session 6 of an ankheg mini adventure, and they're terrifying, complex and tough. Their acid spray is really nasty for a CR 2 creature, making AC useless against the spray. The burrowing usually leads to us being surprised. The tremorsense makes a lot of PC abilities nullified or a...

D4 Deep Dive had a good Paladin dual-wielding hand crossbow build today (The Sheriff / Bowslinger). Seemed pretty good. Very cowboy themed. Apparently he's never heard of the show Have Gun Will Travel though, or likely would have referenced that Paladin character.

Those are pretty cool

Castle Amber. I'd enjoy that. I do want a good series of planar adventures which takes you to different planes.

Honestly they already did a great Isle of Dread with Tomb of Annihilation. Which is a better version of Isle of Dread than the original. Yeah I agree this is a good one. Have we had a good Underdark adventure for 5e? Was that Out of the Abyss (which I missed)? [Edit - yes, it seems it is. Too...

I don't kid - I think they are going there.

No, it's not. Those Hong Kong films were very popular here. It's not racist and colonial to bring them to a class themed on those movies. It's respectful and directly in line with the theme of what those movies did with those themes to bring them to the class. What is disrespectful is an...

I know you've said that repeatedly, but that's not quite correct. It includes some Amazon, but not 100%. It appears WOTC intentionally submitted the 2024 books in the "Toys and Games" category (or something similar) instead of the "Book" category for rankings, to match up with the broader Magic...

I mean, people hate it so much it became the standard for almost everything and almost nobody complains about it or even notices it anymore. After countless years of it's use, I've never seen them once rip anyone's intellectual property off. It's there for the opposite - to prevent people from...

That part is from a Chinese language film in the 1970s. Again, not colonial, or racist. You can not like it of course, but you seem to think this is some western mockery of the ancient tradition when it's not. So blame Yuen Woo-ping and Ng See-yuen. You calling them racist or colonizers?

It is a trope from the original source material, not from the west, and not racist. It's an actual Chinese style of martial arts imitating the movements of a drunk person. See here. There was also a 1970s film about it, from Hong Kong. It's not colonial in origin. It's disputed if it originated...

One of our main DMs, early in 5e, had most of the monsters in the dungeon gather in the room of our tiny hut waiting (looking first, and then hiding out around the corner) for the 8 hours to expire so they could all pound the crap out of us. That's all it took to convince us to use the spell...

Made with Brewer's Supplies. For a class with Intoxication in the name now.

I mean, you magically conjure and are required to drink a pint of an alcoholic beverage to gain the benefits of the subclass. All connotations and cliché's will still be there. I don't think they're getting anything out of changing the name. It IS a stereotype, and it's why people choose the...

Staff of Frost is very powerful. Cloak of Elvenkind is a beginner item which you replace.