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Among other things, yes. Some things I have seen do strike me as logical tweaks and fixes much like 3.5 was to 3e, but some are clearly attempts at "fixing" PR problems by people who don't understand why they're having those problems in the first place. And at least in some cases I expect are personally responsible for said PR problems. It's kind and like a Three Stooges skit about corporate mismanagement, but they honestly think they're doing a good job.

My only thought upon seeing this is what an overstimulated eight year old would rattle off the top of their head if you told them to make some wicked awesome homebrew that doesn't worry about any of that "balance" nonsense. Or actual rules at all really. It's just a bunch of words that someone overheard D&D players say mixed with attempts of sounding like a fast talking comedian.

I haven't actually played Mage, but from what I understand the rules for magic are basically just make up something that you can justify being covered by the disciplines/schools you have points in and more dots means you can get away with cooler stuff.

Apply the Harkness test (self aware intelligence, physical maturity, and ability to communicate consent). Both humans and centaurs pass assuming the individual is a willing adult, horses fail twice due to being nonsapient and uncommunicative.

At that point she didn't have any sleeves.

So what are the chances the two damned souls fighting Angie are actually Redwen's parents, trapped by some infernal contract loophole because they tried to not pay? Or they tried to offer themselves in their daughter's place but the devil just said he'd take the whole set? It would add an extra layer to them thanking Angie for protecting their child.

Just start by giving a speech with a bunch of BS buzzwords about traditional brand value recognition and proven growth practices and they'll wait until the financial reports come in before calling for your head. Much like many executives, shareholders rarely actually understand how the companies they own and operate actually function. They just want to be reassured that they will be getting money without having to actually do anything and the little people can take care of the nitty gritty "work" stuff.

I'm amazed that none of these comments are mentioning the subject line of the post is a reference to "Stop! Hammer time!"

Yeah. Start by chopping any seven figure (or more) executive salaries in half, then rehire all those people who actually create products for the company. Then go back to making products people actually want rather than overpriced collector sets of material with almost no actual content in them or turning preexisting products into subscription based services. Coming up with new stuff is one thing but when you have literally fifty years of history to see what people like from your primary products it shouldn't be difficult to not alienate a massive customer based.

Don't overcomplicate things. Not every single NPC you meet demands a half hour RP session. I'm Bob, this is Sally, the guy in clerical robes is Father Steve, and the dude in the plate is Sir Dinglus of Berryvale. Yeah, he has a weird name but that's apparently normal where he's from. Off to the southeast somewhere. You folks have a nice day.

Would she get advantage on the roll if she pointed out that practice under stressful but safe circumstances is both responsible and good preparation for unforseen stressful and potentially dangerous situations? So, really, playing strip poker is the mature and responsible course of action here.

I now want to make a Glory paladin from the Church of Macho Madness.

The "twist" was pretty clearly telegraphed to anybody familiar with the genre, but the delivery was good and we didn't have to wait long to get there. Also the cleric and paladin were pretty on top of his smooth talking game, which explains him apparently deciding to just cut straight to the inevitable fight. Because it's pretty clear what bargain he's referring to. Well told and bravo, sir. Now let's see some holy butt kicking!

You know you're in the fun religion when your ecclesiastic superiors tell you to up your card shark skills.

"Gee" with a hard G as in geek, then "us." Stress on the first syllable.

Assuming you're referring to the corporate level management, I think you misspelled "euthanized."

I'm putting giant snails into my homebrew world now. It's a skypunk setting so I just have to decide if the snails are native to a specific cloud enshrouded plateau, a flying nuisance species of blimp-mollusks, or an invasive species that shows up everywhere. Maybe all of the above.

The biggest thing that irritates me from this is the implication that anybody is arguing for "historical accuracy" to medieval Europe in a setting that has dragons and goblins that shoot lightning from their fingertips. If, for whatever weird reason, the DM doesn't want potatoes to exist that's okay, but you're not waiting for the Columbian exchange to bring them over from the Americas because the Americas don't exist here. If you have a player character that's a shape shifting sentient blob who casts illusions and is on a quest to seduce every milliner they can find then a plain tasting sausage made from fine ground questionable cuts of meat shouldn't be seen as a stretch.

Additionally, as someone who majored in History in college, I can assure you that most people insisting on "historical accuracy" on any one or two things they learned from a tweet or a tiktok about are almost definitely getting fifteen other things wrong in any given session.

My ruling would be that the vampire does not appear in the mirror but the illusions do. If someone got creative I would also rule that if you aim your attacks based on looking at a reflection you would be attacking a single target with full concealment (normal attack roll with disadvantage) and not rolling to see if you hit an illusion because you're aiming specifically at where they aren't.