Recent content by TwoSix

Yes and yes.

The server load for something like Beyond is incredibly less than what is required for a MMO like WoW. Multiple orders of magnitude less. Despite how WotC has made it look, it's not that hard to make a character builder. Hosting two versions is just a toggle switch on the page. Hell, I could...

And very crucially, they can make big adjustments to their corporate mindset around product releases when they focus on being a digital/subscription platform first, and the print products are a happy addition.

That seems more of an argument to not do a 2 year long playtest cycle where they leave the product line dormant, rather than an argument to not put a new edition out. If I were doing it, I would be playtesting and designing a new version within the next year, have the core parts ready to go by...

Fog Cloud and Darkness are tactically strong options, unless the encounter is primarily a melee scrum and most of the PCs use ranged attacks. Being in a heavily obscured area is net-neutral for melee range, unless the PC build was strongly dependent on gaining advantage or imposing disadvantage...

There's a lot of practical optimization that can be done by using social engineering, so that even if your own contributions are relatively strong compared to other players, it doesn't cause any game friction. Chief among them is not being a jerk; downplay your own contributions and emphasize...

I think the argument here is that the situations where Blind-Fighting is useful can be engineered in relatively trivial ways, and those methods provide ancillary benefits beyond enabling Blind-Fighting.

Pedantic, but Archery is a much bigger boost to DPR than 10%. It turns 10% of attacks from misses to hits, and since the customary hit rate is generally in a 40-70% range, the DPR increase is going to be closer to 15-25%.

The general complication with worldbuilding around the magic schools, or magical concepts embedded within D&D more generally, is that there isn't a one-to-one correlation between magical tropes and concepts (like Protection, Creation, Destruction) and the eight schools that define D&D magic...

My read of the OP is asking the question of whether the Handbooks are "opt-in" (assume that the GM needs to be asked for each inclusion of material from the books) or "opt-out" (assume the books are usable unless the GM specifically excludes some or all of them). I think this question would...

I'm not sure why the companies that were making money making products selling products for 5e wouldn't simply pivot to making products for a 6e on Beyond. They can make money selling revised versions of their 5e products just like WotC makes money on 5.5 with products heavily driven by "updates".

Fair assessment. I'm a little biased as I was doing a Lae'zel Origin run at the same time I was doing a githyanki Durge run romancing Lae'zel, and I was a little disappointed at how little they seemed to differ. Basically, I think you get more out of the githyanki portion of the story arc as a...

Agreed. To this day, Soul Calibur is the template in my mind for what D&D-style martial classes should look like.

Yep. I think the key corollary to that is "Don't assume that just because you've spent prep time on something that it will necessarily make play better." If you've got lots of free time, spend it doing whatever you want, of course. But if your time is limited, you might want to focus your...

If you don't like the word "generic", call it rather a lack of specificity. In terms of Origin runs where you get to see the most unique content and perspectives, I would order it as Karlach->Gale->Shadowheart->Astarion->Wyll->Lae'zel, although I think Wyll is a good Origin run simply because...