Recent content by Arytiss

Just had time to sit down and have a quick look at the new packet. I have to say that at the moment, especially in comparison to everything else, the Bard (one of my favourite classes) seems utterly bland. It doesn't really do anything to effectively evoke the flavour of the bard. The...

The problem I find with most of these articles, is that while they give us descriptions of the monsters, they tell us very little about them. As Shemeska has said, there's a vast body of lore surrounding the Yugoloths and Gereleths that seldom appears because of this tendency to simply show us...

Using an action seems to be the standard means for gaining advantage thus far. I think it's working as intended.

While I sympathise with your opinion, I can't help but disagree with it. The background flavour is an important part of a class. It allows us to distinguish, say, a Fighter with an Archery path, the sniper specialisation, and some form of wilderness background from a Ranger. As a GM, it is...

My PCs tended to win against the monsters easily enough. (It took 4 Giant centipede's backed up by 8 kobolds to challenge them). I did, however, have a death due to Purple Worm.

I believe that they've said that they're going to try avoiding being tied down to any particular setting this time around.

Certainly, but which of the many, many cultures is appropriate for core? And which of them will allow any individual player to say "yup, that's a human alright. I'd recognise it anywhere." The problem isn't that humans don't have a culture, it's that they have too many.

I would suggest a small tub of glitter on Strahd's dressing table. I think that it's important that each(/old) new setting introduced in to next bring something new to the table. The Realms is good for generic High Fantasy, which is the genre that many gamers, both old and new, associate with...

I suppose the difficulty here is that human culture tends to be inherantly tied in to the setting of a game. The moment that they say that humans are one thing, I can guarantee that there would be an outcry saying it should be the other because the human culture as written won't work in their...

Ran through the first parts of the adventure with a small group of players. They liked the Pechs, as I was able to give them a nice mystical air, and a slightly threatening vibe after they saw one walk backwards in to a wall. The Wormwrithings were enjoyable, and the traps that the kobolds set...

True, and I suppose I'll be able to enjoy myself with the sorc and lock while I wait for new info.

Not nearly as much info given as I had hoped, but I suppose that there's not much to tell right after releasing a playtest packet.

The quadruped was my favourite of all those presented. I'd be interested in seeing what it looked like rearing up on to its hind legs.

First time I played B2 we allied with the Kobolds, and worked to establish kobold supremacy through the caves before negotiating an extremely good trade deal between the caves and the Keep on the Borderlands. Play up how the different monster types interact, not just with the PCs, but also with...

Technically you could do that in all the previous editions as well. They just used different terms for it: 5-foot step, shift, etc.