Recent content by humble minion

This thread is going to be locked any time now. I’m not a mod, but I think we’ve reached a point of impasse between individuals with differing views and I suggest it might be better if those individuals stop replying to one another.

I vaguely recall canonically that this was already PCs in a pre written adventure? From Windriders of the Last Sea maybe? But I might be misremembering (and frankly, everything about Windriders is largely best ignored…)

I actually like the DS backstory a lot, although it has a few weird bits and I understand why people don’t like it. The problem was metaplot, not backstory - the Prism Pentad should have been something that the PCs got to play through, not something rushed through in a careful or fairly...

Ability scores can stay standard without any real problems I think. The really hard core types who are concerned about this can just bump up the available points for points buy, or boost the standard array. The real systemic problem is magic. I don’t think there’s ever been a higher-magic...

Maybe. Obviously the difference is between most post-apocalyptic media and a D&D supplement is agency. In a film or book or whatever, the creator can ensure that the main characters stay on the right side of the slavery moral line. In D&D, they can't. I've said it before, but the...

If they legit are updating old subclasses in a systematic way, it’s the rogue ones I’ll be holding out for. The Inquisitive and Mastermind were SUCH missed opportunities.

We killed Imryth. Last session of the main storyline of Storm King's Thunder. She got her licks in (and so especially did her mummy lord offsider who landed an unsaved Harm on the rogue who was only saved by his Death Ward), but the sheer volume of damage the great weapon paladin and archer...

I’d personally argue that it started with making Dex functionally interchangeable with Str for melee attacks in the PHB, meaning you could have good melee attack rolls, damage rolls, AC, ranged attack, and stealth in the same package with one good stat, and zero downside for dumping Str...

If he’s really set on playing an IK gunfighter, there’s potentially ways to make it work. You could allow him to use the full (powerful) IK character creation rules with essence/race, which would give him a solid power boost. Even a level dip into fighter (or some of the other IK classes, like...

I’ve played a bit of IK in 5e, although not the gunfighter specifically. In general yes, they are balanced around the IK firearms which are (by design) much much more powerful than the base 5e ones. Which only makes sense, since IK is a much more technologically advanced setting than standard...

I’ve had … mixed experiences. I hosted a couple of sessions a while back for a new group assembled off a Facebook ‘looking for group’ post in my area. I’m a bit off the grid so players had to connect to my wi-fi for access to dndbeyond etc. Which was fine. Fast forward to the next day, and...

AI generated stuff is a no second chances dealbreaker for me. I’ve seen a lot of crowdfunding campaigns that use autogenerated illustration, but this is the first I’ve seen that uses generated TEXT too, which strikes me as a bit of a nadir.

Ooh, looks interesting, are we finally going to get a serious 5e treatment of feudal Japan? <checks campaign page> AI writing and art. Barf.

I’m not going to be able to look at this for a day or so, but I’m honestly surprised and very happy that they’re trying.

The economics of minis from heroforge etc, or even the time efficiency of painting, kinda depends on purpose of course. The PCs in my game are mostly represented by custom-painted minis, carefully chosen by the players. But as a DM, sometimes you just need a bunch of monsters to chuck on the...