Recent content by EzekielRaiden

I'll be interested to see what conclusions you draw. I've been working on my own 5e Summoner, built off the 5.0 Warlock chassis, that is, the "split subclass" model where to some extent both Pact and Patron are partial subclasses. I decided to go all in for the association with strange...

These days, I essentially only play Celestial Warlock if I play Warlock at all--I just like its thematics and mechanics too much. So, for me, they look like golden shooting stars, or possibly golden blades. I imagine the character gesturing with their hand, more or less like how Iron Man does...

Oh, for sure new editions have also introduced their fair share of stuff. However, if you look back at just how horrendously organized the original books were....I think that's evidence enough for how ill-suited early D&D was to onboarding new players. That it succeeded as it did is a testament...

I had been referring primarily to the Advanced line, so that wouldn't be that much of a problem. I would still argue that the Basic line was only relatively beginner-friendly compared to the Advanced line. Yes, it is more--significantly so!--compared to 1e, 2e, etc. You'll never hear me say...

If that was the design intent, then every designer since Gary Gygax has horrendously failed at that goal, to an utterly absurd degree. There is nothing actually casual/entry-level about D&D. Never has been. The only reason it gets away with anyone thinking it is such is because it's so...

For perhaps the first time ever, I am actually with you on this one. I've played in three campaigns since 5.5e launched (well, one was just before the official launch) and I've seen exactly none of the "juggling" folks talk about here. Instead, I've seen quite a bit more dual-wielding than I had...

Is it...possible to learn this power?

Camaraderie is witchcraft!

My point is and has always been, as I originally said, that the conclusions folks almost always draw from the experiment, and the claims people make about exactly what happened during the experiment, are almost always overblown and, generally speaking, presented in a way that is outright...

Certainly, y'know, given how "A review of Milgram's research materials suggests that the experiments exerted more pressure to obey than the original results suggested. Other variations of the experiment revealed much lower rates of obedience, and many of the participants actually altered their...

To really engage with what you are describing, you'd need a classless system--so that everyone could in fact use the same rules. It is precisely the fact that D&D wants a class-based system and wants NPCs who only appear once and wants everyone to work by precisely the same rules 100% of the...

Completely agreed. Who is saying this? I might've missed it on later pages (there's like 120 posts I haven't read yet...) but nobody on this forum advocates such a position as far as I can tell. I sure as hell wouldn't.

As with most rules structures, it is an abstraction with only an approximate correspondence to the world itself. Sometimes, it is worthwhile going to the effort to tighten that approximation so that the two are nearly (if not actually) identical. Often, however, it is not worth putting in that...

As with the Stanford prison experiment, the stuff people say about the Milgram experiment is often HORRIFICALLY mis-quoted, inaccurate, or even straight-up wrong. So, while I don't mean to pick on you personally for this one, I'm gonna have to tear into that quite a lot because this reflects...

The problem isn't that it means different things to different people. It's that WotC's chosen design method for 5e is design-by-committee, just via survey. When there's a clear agreement about what something should be in broad strokes, e.g. everyone agrees Druids should have shapeshift (but...