Recent content by Ashrym

I never said anything about altering bards. It's unnecessary to do so. A little strawman, a little appeal to absurdity... Colorful but not really a counter point to what I said. I'm tempted to do that in game now though. 😜 The "default bard" resembles mythological bards far better now. It...

D&D creates a framework. Players make a character out of that framework. I create bards from those sources using the D&D framework and you don't have agency to change the characterization of my bards so what you seem to be saying doesn't make any sense. What characteristics do think have been...

I'm more inclined to use spells like that to manipulate battlefield safe zones than the actual damage. I'm curious if the spell blocks movement. An elemental spirit that grapples should also block space, which cloud of daggers does not. I don't think there's enough information in the spell...

I should make an artificer/bard just for sound equipment and a light show. Boombox it is. 😁

Quick opinion on classes in the spell description: I like it too. I find it to be an easier reference when reading a spell than looking at class lists to see which classes access a particular spell. Conjure Elemental seems far better than Cloud of Daggers as a similarly conjured stationary...

The change to conjure spells seems odd to me. I would have to play with them an see how it feels in play. The initial impression is losing summoning spells. I'm on board with the change to those healing spells. They're currently a poor use of a spell slot and I tend to rarely use them. The...

Open casket funerals are normal so we can see the deceased person and say our goodbyes. That common practice is very much about looking at "a corpse" and remembering the person. The reason I used "a corpse" in quotations is because this is how we dehumanize a person within our language...

Possible content warning regarding the prison system. Enough on that topic. If nothing else, it demonstrates perspective is relevant. ;-)

Wow, this thread went off topic since the last time I looked at it. I'm not going to go into a lot of posts on the topic but wanted to point a few things out. The first thing I want to address is the irony of not using trigger or content warnings and spoilers given some of the comments that...

Specific runes would need to be worked out. I like the subclass and concept but the number of choices seems limited and could be expanded. I would change the levelgating to a minor rune, lesser rune, greater rune, master rune at each subclass level and give one of each of those rune types to...

Rune Knight, but add more rune choices.

It's because we still cannot take a long rest whenever we want. We get one in any given 24 hour period so the only thing left is short rests. There should not be an issue with pacing an hour into the day as opposed to a completely new day. The long rest is representative of the over night...

Which is what happens. The difference between 5e and older editions pre 4e is that the rituals and at-will abilities such as cantrips allow spell casters to continue to be spell casters in the absence spamming spell slots. Spell casters have spells for when they need them if they conserve...

That would have been a good approach. Bards are popular in my groups from 2e up. I play them a lot and other players who have played with me start playing them too. Because bards are fun. I've been in groups with 3 or 4 bards. I think it'll be the DMG. I thought we were getting 4...

Bladesinger is an example of an issue where for some reason someone decided giving more to wizards was important. Personally, I think it's okay to have difference levels of combat vs magic in gish-type classes/subclasses but the wizard, a class so obviously focused on magic, is the last class I...