Recent content by humble minion

I hate this post, because I finished writing the background of my new warlock pc and sent it to my DM literally yesterday and now it’s too late to go back and incorporate this idea. Though the mind boggles thinking about what a disaster dao patron would look like. Stubborn autistic-coded grump...

It’s a setting book and rules supplement only. There a couple of adventures available for the setting, but no level 1 to 10+ campaign in the style of Curse of Strahd or the other modern WotC 5e campaign books.

Given the massively increased viability of Dex-based martial characters in recent editions, if you’re having heat penalties for armour in your DS game one unintended side effect is that you end up with all your martial PCs being willowy agile types rather than the muscular brawlers from Brom art...

I think it's a given that an adventure will be a large proportion of the product, given how recent WotC products have been structured. As for the 'done really well' - well. we can cross our fingers I suppose. This is the same WotC that gave us a Planescape adventure that went to exactly one...

I think pyreen were generally a bit more Druidic than celestial, but the lore there changed over time and editions too. But I was just using aasimar as a completely random example. Minotaurs, plasmoids, etc would all be on the same principle.

This is my very personal interpretation of course, and not everyone may agree with it, but for me the core theme of Dark Sun is always that power has a price, and how you pay that price and who you pay that price to, matters. Defilers steal life force from others and from the world to pay for...

Yeah, I think the principle was that Rajaat had bound these creatures to the sorcerer-kings in the Pristine Tower, and the procedure couldn’t be done again. It was a pretty transparent attempt to post-hoc justify why templars could cast clerical magic while the sorcerer-kings that granted...

That would work for many stories, in many settings. In Dark Sun, where ‘how you get your power matters’ is such a core theme, it wouldn’t work for me personally. But you do you.

I have no doubt you’re correct there, as little as I like it. When it comes to tweaking game mechanics or experimentation or even optional rules, this is probably the least adventurous period in d&ds history. The same shaped peg must get hammered into holes of any shape, no matter how poorly it...

I know, That's the game-convenient way of dealing with the problem that WotC as a whole promotes, which I loathe because I find it against the spirit of what warlocks (and clerics and paladins) ARE. A warlock makes a pact with their patron. Pacts bind both parties, by definition, and pacts...

Yeah, I'd definitely want to allow that type of storyline to play out. It's too dramatic and iconic, and I'd hate to close that storytelling door. The question is how it works. If the templar turns against their patron and the patron finds out ... then what? Is it possible for the...

Sorcerer kings are not omniscient (any more than most warlock patrons, I suppose). Depending on the situation and the nature of the arrangement between warlock and patron, I’d certainly allow a warlock (or Templar) to betray their patron. Especially if it’s only in small unobtrusive ways or...

The lack of obligations in return for power in more general terms is one of the worst aspects for warlocks, clerics, and paladins together. I get that the idea was to refrain from giving bad DMs a fig leaf of rules cover for stripping a paladin pc of all their powers for frivolous reasons or...

The triumphant rise of Phoenix Command: Discworld approaches! 😆 Seriously though, I love discworld and I backed the kickstarter, but I’m not sure I could ever even remotely see myself running it. People talk about the Matt Mercer Effect as dissuading starting d&d DMs - imagine running a...

I have most of the sourcebooks of the line in pdf, and some of the adventures. Unfortunately I was only just getting into D&D (and was still very short of money to spend on it) when TSR was spiralling down the tubes in the late 90s and all this stuff was going out of print, so my physical...