Recent content by Reynard

There's definitely a difference between a wand of fireballs and a gun...

Have you watched all of clone wars? lol

This has come up as a side discussion in a few threads, so I wanted to start a dedicated thread to dig into the subject. Note that I don't think there is a hige difference between how guns would work in 5E 2014 vs 2024, so the 2014 tag is just to try and limit this discussion to various 5E...

I think the 5E Wizard is a little better, but not much. The big issues are it doesn't give you limits on things like Experiences, so you just need to know, and it doesn't auto-equip your weapons and armor. Overall it is good. I just wanted to caution people on a couple details. Hopefully it...

No it's not. It's a theoretical model that has never met actually play.

I am not sure I would describe Alexa+ as artificial "intelligence." That thing is dumber than the box it came in.

Well, they considered themselves chefs.

I mean, the game does not actually play this way. Like, ever.

I'm baffled. But hey, if it works for you.

What if you can't cook?

Setting has nothing to do with it. The rules of BitD are built specifically around its intended, limited playstyle. D&D is more "generic" simply because it tries to cover more ground than BitD by a wide margin.

The 5E rules cover more playstyle ground than BitD is all I am saying. That can't be controversial. The whole point of the existence of BitD was do do a single thing really well.

I don't disagree overall (although I think people make too much of 5E being melee focused and "not working" with ranged or guns, but anyway). I just think it is pretty obvious that D&D specifices less about how it is supposed to be played and what that play looks like than BitD. I mean, the...

I think BitD has a significantly more narrow and opinionated design than 5E. I don't think 5E is a generic game, though, just that on the continuum it is more generic than BitD.

Cool. For anyone (like me) interested, here is a good article on the subject: https://www.science.org/content/article/how-did-ancient-bugs-get-so-big-prevailing-theory-may-be-wrong