Recent content by FitzTheRuke

You're missing my point - D&D is the grandpappy of all CRPGs AND MMOs. They wouldn't exist without D&D. The fact that Warcraft made billions of dollars while D&D (at the time at least) remained relatively obscure is, IMO, a sign of short-sightedness when it comes to its potential. It has nothing...

D&D IS undermonetised, though. I agree that I worry that corpo-speak and myself are talking about two different things - but it has always been shocking to me that we only recently have been able to buy, say, mugs with the ampersand on it. Or how World of War craft and all the money it made...

Cartographer is not that weak. Just the Initiative Bonus of the Map alone is significant, as is the ability to target spells at other mapholders without line-of-sight. Some folks underestimate the power of Support Characters.

One idea that might have legs, and combines a lot of the above: A setting where the "civilization" is along a rocky shoreline, with a mountainous interior (full of monsters, naturally) that has developed submersibles (like Spelljammer under the sea) and underwater exploration is one of (but not...

I do it differently every time I make a setting. On purpose. So, I agree with everyone here that if we're going to make up something new for 5e24, I'd say we ought to avoid the "Big Continent" as it has been done to death. A detailed mini-setting that is more fleshed out, more varied, and more...

I've had it happen, when I wanted to make a list using asterixes, and it converted it all to italics. I am happy to learn about escape codes, seeing as I really can't stand it when what I write gets changed by programming to something else. I'd rather format things manually.

I think that's one of their points for leaving the rules about it as vague as they have: It's up to the Player and their DM to decide how the character stores their armour when they "doff" it. It could shrink to a single gauntlet, fold itself into a backpack, be stored in a pocket dimension...

How does one do that? (You don't need to get into all the details, a broad summary of steps would satisfy me).

Two, usually. But yeah, even though I feel that things are generally announced TOO FAR in advance these days for truly good marketing, I also feel like we should know something about next year's stuff by now. I could be wrong, but I feel like they don't usually (other than the 2024 MM, of...

I concur with the OP. I also disagree about it being "generic". There are a lot of specific places and concepts that could be explored if the game really dug into it.

I've said it before. I'm no 4e hater (I liked it, in fact) but the editing. Woof, the editing. We used to flip through them to spot errors as a mini-game - usually several in a single quick flip-through! We used to say, "Did anyone bother to read this before sending it to press?" 5e books...

Now, here I just disagree: 2024 D&D has the best layout for character creation that the game has ever had. It's different than you're used to, which may throw you off, but IMO, it's a significant improvement.

That checks out with Crawford's overall style. Personally, I don't think "troll those who are overly fixated on the letter-of-the-law" is a good way to teach them to relax, even if I agree that relaxing is in all our best interests. In the very least, trolling is not very kind.

You got me there. You can no longer trust Google to answer a fact-based, real-world basic piece of information with the truth. I suppose that was always sort-of true with things like Wikipedia, but let's just say - I think the internet used to be closer to a place where you could find true...

I was gonna say: If Reddit is your only source of good information, the world is doomed.