Recent content by EzekielRaiden

But even then it's complicated. (Again, this may be a rant, but not directed at you.) Spanish, for example, is currently (well, some speakers of it are) trying to figure out a way to have not-inherently-gendered terms. Some folks have become uncomfortable with the notion that if you have 999,999...

Would you call this "introducing a character's backstory"? Because that was kind of the operative term. It being the backstory was important.

Given 5e explicitly made transgender characters something supported, even favored, by Corellon Larethian (who has appeared in male, female, and/or androgynous aspect at different times), it would seem that yes, characters can have whatever pronouns the player likes. Which is what it should be...

For my DW game: It was really good! It started off a bit slow--couple players were fatigued after a long day, folks have been Going Through It and thus had some issues here and there, I myself had had a HORRIBLE wake-up that morning so I wasn't firing on all cylinders to start. But by the end...

Is D&D Beyond exclusivity bad for D&D? Yes.

I'd like to respond to a part of the OP that is, perhaps, somewhat different from what both most others in the thread have responded to, and also different from what I myself initially felt drawn to respond to. I do feel that the more-typical part should be addressed, but since it's not my main...

I learned from the best (Tolkien, Chesteron, Le Guin, and many more!), and have always had a poetic flourish...or at least some embellishment. Thank you though. I appreciate the compliment.

THing is, this could be answered either yes or no, equally validly. The spell description explicitly says that it doesn't account for possible spells or other influences that could alter the answer over time. So the answer could be "yes" in a purely hypothetical sense, but the most likely answer...

You get no answer, because--per the thread tags--this is 5.5e rules, and the 5.5e rules don't allow a question like this. "You ask one question about a specific goal, event, or activity to occur within 7 days." Karsus, whatever his status might be, definitely isn't a specific goal, event, or...

No. But I wasn't talking about that. I was talking about using Innate Sorcery (2 free uses + 2 SP per subsequent use), which automatically confers advantage on all your spell attacks. Assume 5-7 encounters per day, that's 3-5 extra uses, 6-10 SP spent. The character you spoke of had 3 dice...

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. "wHiTe RoOm ThEoRy" is not a rebuttal. It is a bald assertion that math is impossible to use and thus useless. My statements stand. Restore 5 SP a day naturally, cycle one spell slot for a few more, and this thing you...

Sure, but you sunk a resource to get that value and had to crit to do it. 6d8 crit + 2x8 + 5 cha gives that output just fine, and that's actually kinda weak given Empowered Spell lets you reroll so much. Admittedly, you can also stack on Innate Sorcery, and probably should at that level since...

So they reflect real life when it's useful to you, and don't reflect real life when that would be useful to you. I hope you can see why this argument looks like cherry-picking. While I am not surprised that you haven't played it, I genuinely am surprised to hear that you would give it a shot...

Almost entirely among forum-goers. So where does that put your analysis here? It was the forum-goers who hated 4e. Their sustained hate campaign would have been impressive if it weren't so depressing.

So.... WotC built D&D 5e based on feedback from unrepresentative forum-goers who created a game that most people play for only a couple of years and then quit? That sounds like a really damning conclusion!