Search results

  1. Charlaquin

    D&D 5E (2014) D&D adventure ‘Wages of Vice’ explores greed and grief in the Radiant Citadel

    Jeez, I thought this was finally an announcement of the next official campaign and that it was going to be a new one tied into the radiant citadel. 😖
  2. Charlaquin

    D&D General Warlocks' patrons vs. Paladin Oaths and Cleric Deities

    I actually wouldn’t lay out the terms in the beginning. That makes it more of a formal contract. I prefer the warlock/patron relationship to be more informal, like art patronage. There aren’t specific terms, just a gentleman’s agreement of quid-pro-quo. Indeed, I would have the patron start out...
  3. Charlaquin

    D&D General Ultimate Fencers of 5e DnD

    I agree with Battlemaster, but I think taking Fighter to 7 for an extra superiority die and two more maneuvers, which still gives you 5 levels of Rogue for Cunning Strike and the same number of Sneak Attack Dice as you’d have at Rogue 6 is the better way to go given your cap of 12th level. I’d...
  4. Charlaquin

    D&D General Former Head of D&D Says Vecna: Eve of Ruin Was Not Going To Feature Obelisk Plot

    I mean, it sounds like two slightly different versions of the same story. WotC wanted to make a 50th anniversary adventure that featured lots of callbacks and cameos to previous adventures. Perkins wanted to do this by paying off the Netherese obelisks he had been seeding across various...
  5. Charlaquin

    D&D General Warlocks' patrons vs. Paladin Oaths and Cleric Deities

    I find it helps to think of Warlock patrons as, well, patrons. You know, wealthy nobles who would pay artists to fund their art. It’s not really a business relationship - the patron doesn’t technically have any say over what the artist makes, they’re just kind of donating to enable the artist to...
  6. Charlaquin

    D&D General Tools for PCs?

    Again, all production and all consumption has environmental impact. Period. Anything not made from animal or plant matter is made from minerals mined out of the ground. And animals and plants reproduce, by definition, while minerals are finite resources. Granted, the scale at which we use animal...
  7. Charlaquin

    D&D General Mtg colors for class/subclass

    Barbarian - Promarily red, secondarily green. They use their emotions to tap into primal powers. Bard - blue, red, and green They are scholars of a kind, but they study the lore of nature, and perform magic through, well, performance and affecting the emotions of those who hear them. Cleric -...
  8. Charlaquin

    D&D General Tools for PCs?

    I just think if one finds one’s self defending parties who are actively harming marginalized groups in order to defend one’s self from perceived implications that one is a bad person, merely because others are choosing not to support said parties financially… one probably ought to reflect on...
  9. Charlaquin

    D&D General Tools for PCs?

    Where are you getting that statistic from?
  10. Charlaquin

    D&D General Tools for PCs?

    Yes, there are examples of that happening. That doesn’t make it the case that boycotts are generally ineffective, as you claimed.
  11. Charlaquin

    D&D General Tools for PCs?

    This take is entirely vibes-based, and not consistent with actual evidence.
  12. Charlaquin

    D&D General Tools for PCs?

    Boycotts are highly effective when they’re organized. That should be pretty evident to D&D fans given the results of the mass D&D Beyond cancellations in the wake of the OGL-pocalypse. “Boycotts aren’t effective” is what people tell themselves to justify their own unwillingness to participate in...
  13. Charlaquin

    Beadle & Grimm's Platinum Edition of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

    Yes, that is true. And, it is also true that geek culture has always been shareholder value. The world is complex and multiple things can be true simultaneously.
  14. Charlaquin

    D&D General Tools for PCs?

    Nobody said anyone was a bad person.
  15. Charlaquin

    D&D General Tools for PCs?

    That is true, and certainly to disengage with a brand/product/franchise/etc completely is a more effective form of protest than simply not buying it. But, a boycott is about cutting off the money flow, and that’s easier to get more people onboard for if you don’t also demand that they get rid of...
  16. Charlaquin

    Beadle & Grimm's Platinum Edition of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

    That’s not just geek culture, that’s all of late-stage capitalism. Our entire society is based around making the line go up, and you can only make the line go up by either reaching more people with your product, or once you’ve achieved peak market saturation, charging the people who are already...
  17. Charlaquin

    D&D General What Does Your Cosmology Look Like?

    That’s the thing about models. All models are wrong; good models are still useful.
  18. Charlaquin

    D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash

    Yeah, same. Generally, if players in my games want to choose an alignment and write it on their character sheet they are more than welcome to, but I don’t require it and I don’t put any more importance on it than hair color, eye color, height, weight, etc. Maybe a useful roleplaying tool for...
  19. Charlaquin

    D&D General Tools for PCs?

    Well yeah. The point of a boycott is “stop giving them money,” not “your possessions are tainted.”
  20. Charlaquin

    D&D General Tools for PCs?

    Also, why exactly are we sealioning in JK Rowling’s defense here…?
Top