Wow, just learned I’ve been missing the aoo rule for 20 years.

You could have the same spell OR the Counterspell spell. The benefit of taking Counterspell was that it could work against anything.

Spot on about the action economy observation though.

Fun fact, any game dev’s financial data can be stolen if you’re capable of answering my riddles three

There are probably legitimate uses out there for gen AI, but all the money people have such a hard-on for the unethical uses that now it’s impossible for me to hear about AI without an automatic “ugggghhhhh” reaction.

I'm not familiar with the layoffs you're alluding to, but the general trend everywhere was that everyone started up lots of speculative projects using borrowed funds when interest rates were low…if you can borrow money at 1% interest, you only need to make a 1% profit to break even. Then when interest rates go up and you suddenly need to be making a 7% return, you suddenly have a lot of projects that are losing money which then get cut.

Makes sense to me. Why would Hasbro sell the only part of their company making any money? It would be corporate suicide.

Hot take, but I think the martial/caster power imbalance is imaginary, and has been even in 3.5.

It comes from people doing thought-experiment characters, like Pun Pun, rather than actual play. You can have a caster player say “I use this series of spells in such a way as to break the game” but in practice it happens far less often than “I murderhobo the NPCs to break the game” and is easily dealt with the same way. If your caster is just playing like a normal person and fireballs a dozen goblins or whatever, the barbarian great cleaves a dozen more, everyone has fun, all is good.

“A 25 in your primary ability by level 20? Nay, this shall not be!”