Recent content by pukunui

My goodness me, what a day! My oldest daughter has finally flown the coop, and I took the day off to help her move. She insisted on doing all the packing herself and so it took longer than I was expecting ... and then we drove for an hour through rainy day afternoon traffic to her new place...

Let's also remember that WotC releases their products twice these days - early release on DDB for Master tier subscribers then general release in stores and on DDB. There are enough Master tier subscribers on EN World that here at least it can feel like the early release is the general release...

I've got a player in my home game right now who's developed a healthy fear of melee combat, so she's playing a vengeance paladin who tries to avoid melee as much as possible and once even ran away, abandoning the rest of the team. (Admittedly, she was very badly injured and was retreating to the...

How do you know what the final revised artificer is like? It's not out yet.

I long ago learned not to assume standard English pronunciation for any made-up name in the Forgotten Realms. For instance, Sune is pronounced "SUE-nee" but Selune is pronounced "Seh-LOON-eh". Malar is "MAY-lar" but Milil is "Meh-LILL". You say Eileanar looks like it starts with a long I...

WotC abandoned using UA for balance long ago. They're just vibe checks now really.

Still reading through it, but at first glance, I really wish WotC hadn't dropped pronunciation guides with the rules revision. Their inclusion in earlier 5e products was super helpful. How are other people pronouncing Netherese vowel salads like "Eileanar" and "Ioulaum"?

That's all perfectly fine to me. If you had, however, said you were going to have your PC ditch the others and go find adventure somewhere else on their own while the other PCs were poking at the alien samples, that's another story ... Like, for instance, the time when I was running Legacy of...

There's a world of difference between RPing your character's traits to the point of irritating your fellow players and RPing your character to the point that the GM has to create a solo campaign for you on the fly because you refuse to go along with the rest of the party. I did that once, and I...

I did this when I was younger and didn't know any better. Made characters that resisted going along with the plot. One example was a non-Star Wars game using the SWSE rules. I was playing one of those high-level characters who is suffering from amnesia and so is currently low-level because they...

That sucks! Did you try resyncing your entitlements / restoring your purchases first? I had to do the latter on my iPad before they showed up for me there. I did not purchase them separately. (I also got an email this morning letting me know they were now available on my account.) If I were in...

There is SO MUCH good stuff in the alpha playtest version of the Elemental Evil books that I really wish had seen the light of day. I wish they'd just release it all as Unearthed Arcana if nothing else so people can just play around with it in its draft form. This new iteration of spellfire is...

I really liked the conversational, unreliable in-world narrator approach ~ in fact, I'll go so far as to say I prefer that approach to the pithy little comments from the books' title characters that they ended up going with instead. My only real complaint with the SCAG was that it was too...

Isn't this thread in violation of the no politics rule?

Yeah, for instance, they're undoubtedly factoring in the cost for all the DDB coding. I'm pretty sure they said the bundle price included these DLCs at their full price. They weren't discounted as part of the bundle. IIRC, the digital bundle didn't really have a discount. It was only the...