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Gathering Storm: A Trip To The Library (Context since I don’t post most sessions) Previously… Two years ago: the heroes known in the papers as The Storm Breakers attended a Day of Mourning memorial that turned into a terrorist attack by an aberrant Dragonmarked mutant. The mutant ended up...

That first one I would be stoked for some D&D art like that The bottle girl too.

I hadn’t done the math so I’m glad to hear that it matches up with Sorcerer. I haven’t watched all of episode 2 yet, but I heard a thing that backs up him being a divine soul sorcerer on top of everything else. Celestial bloodline, demonic pacts, and authoritarian ambitions. That family is one...

More than names changed for sure but there are certainly similarities. Far, far, far, too may differences of vastly too great importance to call it “Eberron with the names changed”, though.

Yeah, and Wic cannot possibly be a cleric, looking at his stats! Especially not if he built him with the intention of being a “soldier”. So I’m guessing either he will be a divine sorcerer or ALSO a celestial pact warlock.

No, though I do like SW5E. This was just a custom hack of Star Wars Saga Edition for my own table. Essentials is just 4e with different presentation, so, yes. A lot. Sure, but…I mean technically the fighter and rogue variants still had powers, but barely. Not remotely the same as essentials...

Yeah last time I ran SW it was basically SWSE with 5e math, and lots of talents and feats consolidated, and 5e spells style force power economy.

La Maupin had a very comfortable life and I am absolutely certain in a D&D world she would have been an adventurer. She had no reason other than desire to go around getting in sword fights, burning down nunneries, etc. She literally just enjoyed that life, and when she was tired of it she...

Oof yeah. And the design that required optimization to avoid crappy to-hit and very frustrating gameplay. I don’t miss that or the stacking little modifiers from 12 different sources of 4e.

Nah, they’re mostly great. Only a few suck.

Those were separate spells before 4e, too. Yep. The biggest issue with essentials is trying to cater to grogs in some rather silly ways at times. Maybe? No, definitely it’s inflated. And while those powers are redundant, the only reason they seem so egregious compared to other editions is...

I agree and would add that it should allow for faster magic item crafting rather than cheaper buying.

Tbh the Rogue needs a Hawkeye/Thief CRPG style subclass, as a mostly mundane alternative to the artificer, and simply because it fits so well.

It’s absurd to attribute that to the feat in question. It gives you a discount on magic items (if your dm even lets you buy them) and lets you make mundane stuff, via tool proficiency. That’s it. It’s not adding any significant ability or bonus to the character. You’re better off just using...

Kinda. Had 4e been given time to fully cook, it wouldn’t have looked so different from 3.5 in the first place, and people wouldn’t have gone so nuts against it. The designers have said that they wanted to make the game closer to what essentials ended up looking like, but didn’t have time and had...