Recent content by Bad Fox

Nice work! I'm always interested in reading different 5e conversions for Dark Sun, as I'm gearing up to start a game with my group. Just finished a writeup for the races of Dark Sun yesterday - I know there's a lot already out there, but I wanted to try putting together my own version. I tried...

Interesting to see someone else's take on this. I've been grappling with this conversion as well, but with a specific eye towards Dark Sun races. I've tried to balance a number of competing priorities, which has been really challenging. Essentially, I'm looking to maintain a power balance with...

In all fairness to poor, abused Witch Bolt - it does 1d12, not 1d10. But I'd still say it fares poorly against other damage dealing spell choices. Take Chromatic Orb. WB will average 13 points of damage over two turns (at first level), while CO will average 13.5 in one turn. That's not even...

Sounds like you've already come up with a perfectly serviceable way to tie these together! :) But since you're asking for more ideas, if I were trying to do the whole book as a single campaign, I might change the Yawning Portal to an airship and then reskin Durnan into a mercenary captain who's...

I wonder if WotC eventually looks at doing a revised release of 5e, if they'll do a comprehensive survey to measure satisfaction with individual spells? Hmm. Maybe that wouldn't even be necessary. I feel like enough questions and comments would have accumulated about problematic ones to make...

Quite possibly? I do know that a lot of folks love their dragons. That said, stuffing a hardcover full of wyrms doesn't guarantee that it'll be any more successful than some other release. Especially since dragons already got covered pretty extensively in the core Monster Manual, and got...

Hahah - I'm so smitten by the idea of a "Monsters of the Multiverse" book that I wrote about it in the general feedback section of this week's Unearthed Arcana survey.

Likewise, I never played in a Planescape campaign or owned any of the supplements, but I do think that planar monsters would be uniquely useful for many games - regardless if you have any interest in running a "Planescape Campaign." I mean, fiends, elementals and other planar monsters can easily...

Option one would be awesome; option two would be terrible. Could you do a full 5e hardcover on dragons? Sure, easy. But we've already got 32 pages of essential lore and ecology in the MM. I think that 248 pages focused on dragons would be way more detail than a lot of people have an appetite...

If the positive reception for Volo’s Guide to Monsters leads to another "Big Book of Monsters" getting published at some point, what theme and format would you like to see for it? For VGtM, we got the Volo/Elminster thing to tie the book together thematically. Then, in terms of format, it was...

I'm particularly curious what other people think about the doubling of proficiency bonuses. I've been kinda skeptical whenever I've seen this particular rule used, because I feel like if it gets too common, it'll just lead to DC inflation. Basically, more skill checks that will be almost...

Strongly agree. The tone of what Mearls was saying in the interview seems to indicate that a Greyhawk release is almost definitely not coming in the near future, even though he might personally want that. Posting a Greyhawk UA sounds more like him indulging his love for Greyhawk, and maybe...

I don't see Wizards as looking to promote a second setting just to capture customers that reject the realms. I feel like the company wouldn't currently be interested in any sales strategy that doesn't target the entire player base. To this end, I think the old model of promoting multiple...

In light of how Mearls talks about it, I expect that stretching the game in a different direction is exactly what he and his team are looking for. Now, whether that's just a different direction thematically, or if it also means stretching the core rules in a different direction? I guess we'll...

Based on what Mearls says in the interview, something like this sounds like it might be their current publishing strategy. I mean, he's a huge Greyhawk fan who comes out and says that he wanted to schedule some kind of release for the setting, but didn't pull the trigger. But given that he also...