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This seems like a un-argument/violently agreeing. You can have +0 be relatively incompetent and +4 be default starting, or +0 be default starting and -4 be relatively incompetent. It's all up against an enemy armor scale that is rated against these same expectations. Again, you're saying...

Yes. oD&D didn't have non-military weapons (the reason why basic-classic Magic Users used daggers -- there were no staves as weapons). Original playable druids could use 'sickle-like swords' (which swords were sickle-like? ask your DM). In AD&D PHB, that became scimitars, as they were still...

I'd also say that his role as a onetime TSR employee is hardly definitional to how any of us know or interact with him*. It seems odd to see him drag this out and pretend it gives him great insight into the downfall of the company. I mean, I get it, it gives him an air of relevance that lets him...

Your point made at the time others commented was that before 3e, the max was 18. This is clearly not the case. If it was correct except for things that you define as mistakes, we can accept it as a no-true-Scotsman style statement. But why not just say, 'Sorry, I misspoke. What I meant was...

I like that there are now dwarven wizards, (playable) elven clerics, and non-human paladins. I like that being an elf is no longer a huge list of benefits counterbalanced by class limitations, plus not being able to advance to levels the group might not see. I like that there is an attempt to...

If the mechanics aren't the important part, have you considered porting parts of one of the White Wolf Faerie games?

Unsurprising. Blowguns, bolos, lassos, mancatchers, nets, whips, and various chain weapons have always had weird rules in A/D&D (when they have shown up) to justify ever using them, and they have ranged from useless to overly complicated to optimal in specific contexts to the simply-best-option...

I've long said that with the addition of weapon specialization, NWPs/skills, feats, and all these other ways to differentiate characters, that attributes have become one of the least interesting ways of doing this differentiation. This is doubly so as attributes (at least in the classes most...

My assumption is that the imagined role for the spell was it being taken (through Magic Initiate or a druid dip) by a Wisdom-centric twf ranger (or possibly monk) to use as a ranged attack. Sure, with a clause that it doesn't then work with multiple attacks (perhaps even an...

I'll admit this set off some alarm bells in my brain the same way the phrase 'ethically sourced teak' does. However, I'm having a hard time coming up with a credible scenario where this would actually be an issue. It is post-science cast-off rock material. It's not precious scientific or...

So business as usual regarding Star Trek. I'm thinking the more likely situation is that the time skip won't have a lot of value over a 50-100 year time skip (just enough to reshuffle who is aligned with who). If Discovery had jumped forward to 2460 (about 50 years after Picard) and said the...

Don't let me interrupt the axe grinding, but there's actual timely news on the subject.

The best option (for them) would be each getting a complete list of their own spells, each relatively balanced (against each other, and other spellcasting classes), but also slightly different and individually themed (fire casters with their fireballs maybe having the biggest AoEs to represent...

There's multiple things about 4e which are quintessential 4e. One can like one aspect of 4e (the power options retained and usable at the moment), while disliking others (battlemat dependence). The nice thing about 'remaking 4e,' as people are calling it, is that one can have one without the...

Thank you for that. {ages 1000 years in the course of a second, falls into a grave, and turns to dust}

It seems to be a universal trope that Hollywood writers don't know the size or composition of anywhere other than LA and NYC, which blows my mind because most of them are from somewhere else. The guy from Atlanta doesn't know that statements like 'people around here don't even lock their doors...

So, honest question: have you regularly had situations where the difference would meaningly benefit them? Where the 10' or 20' extra radius would have made all the difference and they couldn't just move closer or the like? That's kind of what we discussed near the beginning of the thread: how...

Edit: unintentionally harsh tone removed. This is a fairly common position. The only controversial thing here is whether Solo gets the cut (and I suppose whether Andor and/or early Mandalorian s/b in the mix, although I assume we're talking exclusively movies here).

K’thrazz’qel’vhoon, master trap-maker.

Well now I would love to know what the difference is.