Recent content by Clint_L

In my current home game, they've attained level 7 relatively quickly (it's been about 9 months) and I've suggested to the players that I would like to radically slow the pace. Everyone loves their character and have unlocked the key abilities that they wanted as their character vision, so I now...

I've learned that if I want to know the optimal build for a class/sub-class, I should pay particular attention to one particular pundit on this site, @ECMO3. I'm not a hardcore optimizer, but I enjoy thinking about these things, for whatever quirky reasons my brain has, and they both do the math...

I'm curious. I agree that WotC wants a healthy game store ecosystem, though I am skeptical that D&D sales in themselves, while significant, are a cornerstone of many, if any, stores. We are blessed to have quite a few in the Greater Victoria area, and from what I can see, in this region they...

I'm confused. If they are replacing Gadot as WW for the reasons to which you allude, why would they cast in a new role? That would be really wierd.

Book publishing traditionally has tiny profit margins. That’s why WotC is so desperate to diversify D&D, and do as much digital sales as possible. That said, I have no interest in this product so the $15 is moot. I’m trying to reduce complexity in my games, not expand it.

1e: 11 or 13 - I was sure it was 13 but have started to doubt my memory. 5e: 14. Those are the only editions where I’ve had substantial character arcs. But I don’t get to play much.

This isn’t an either/or situation. I do think work is integral to living a purposeful life, but that doesn’t mean that all work is equally enriching or enriching at all - plenty of jobs are manifestly terrible. At the same time, I am 100% on the side of Wall-E/Satan when it comes to rescuing...

Yeah, I made an assumption based on not much that he wasn’t that into music. My personal impression of his interests largely stems from reading his columns in Dragon, lo those many decades ago.

It's one of my favourite films of the 70s, which is saying something, and the grit is what makes it great! A lot of people probably do tend to focus more on 80s Rocky. Which is a whole different tone. Edit: Getting back to the OP, I'm not sure that sports movies have much in common. Films and...

It seems like you have an answer from Gygax himself, and no good reason to doubt his word. He and his friends were nerdy types, and when he came of age those folks were mostly listening to jazz and folk. Country and rock were lowbrow music. But he doesn’t seem to have been that into music.

We just watched the first episode and really liked it, but at the end my son commented that it felt like a Twilight Zone episode. Which left us wondering the same as most of you, it seems: how do you turn this premise into a full series? I’m interested in finding out.

With no subtitles. Put the work in!

Your description of this subclass is exactly why I have strong reservations about it. I do not want players assuming that their character is the party leader/battle captain because of their chosen class/sub-class. I worry it'll lead to players trying to tell others how to play.