Recent content by FitzTheRuke

Groceries are insane here - so much so that it has been something of a scandal with the big chains being criticized for reporting record profits while people can barely afford to eat without going heavily into debt. I assume it is no different for you - though California is a well known food...

Hey, I live in British Columbia. Our prices are pretty much the same as yours. (But gas is more expensive). My point wasn't that things are good - just that things are only marginally worse than they were in 2014.

My all-time favorite has got to be ... Oswald the Overladen Henchman

Don't you live in California? Minimum Wage has DOUBLED since 2014 in Cali.

I hope that it'll be better than the UA version.

Really? Dodged? "Telling"? Telling of what? You seem to attribute to me strong feelings on a subject that I just don't have. This isn't the first time, either. What book is that? "Should have been done". According to whom? I'm pretty sure that the designers just disagree with you on this...

Maybe. Don't get me wrong, I think that DDB is widely used - but I don't think that it is quite as much of a controlling share (yet) of all the games everywhere. Cool! A5e is great. I can't get my group to try it, not because it's not on Beyond, but because they "don't want to learn more...

Good luck with that! A small section in two different books? Hey, I didn't design it! Also, I assume that they don't think of it so much as a "design failure" as a different priority than what you'd prefer.

Sure, and you totally don't have to agree with me, but I think they (or something like them) belong more in a place that discusses personality (like, wherever they put alignment) rather than under "Background" which is more about where you're from and what you learned than it is about how you...

Or mimics.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's some advice for BIFT-style "RP aids" in the DMG. I'm not sure they're needed as decision-points at character generation (personally, I usually take a bit of time to "get to know" my character before I would want to write out those sorts of details, and I would...

I think that Backgrounds, as the design team sees them, are a convenient package of skills, tools, languages, and a feat, that come with an understandable story-reason for all those things and set a tone for your character. They're specifically to deal with the problem of too many choices at...

I think that's the whole of the DMG. Just how much better the new one might be, is a very exciting possibility. Can they go from bad to great? Or will it just be bad to fine? (Or something in between?) I doubt bad to worse is even possible in this case. It's got so much potential, though, that...

They definitely won't, but I wouldn't be surprised if the DMG has some MUCH better advice on what exactly they do to the balance curve, so that DMs go in eyes open.