Recent content by Jesauce

Wanted to get some opinions and clarifications on this from people, since there seems to be a few things off. Here is the archetype I'm looking into making one because it looks fun, and who hasn't wanted to play a card-slinging badass? A few things jumped out at me, though. Deadly Dealer is...

Just going to drop my 2 cents into the jar here. The best way I can sum up my views is by using one of the terms that I believe is in the new PHB when talking about the DM, which is 'referee.' The ref knows the rules, in theory better than anyone on the field. He has some leeway in his calls...

You're thinking this in the wrong way. Crossbow expert allows you to make an extra attack with a crossbow in your hand. It's not tied to TWF. It doesn't matter what is in your other hand, be it light weapon, regular, shield or tomato. You can eat the tomato and still shoot with the crossbow. It...

I had just started a homebrew Pathfinder game a few weeks before snagging my early release copy of the PHB, so I asked my players and they were actually pretty eager so we switched over the game to 5e. It's been running weekly since, and I picked up the MM without hesitation. It's been great so...

My methods are very similar to Jameson. Time of day is a fairly malleable thing for me. It tends to be about whatever time it needs to be, give or take the situation. I'll give the party the option of 'Well, you've just woken up, do you want to do anything in town?' If they have shopping or...

One thing I always do when setting up a BBEG is decide on obvious thing like motivations, goals and command structure (or lack thereof) but also long-term plans. A great question I like to ask myself is "Okay, so when he pulls off these grand schemes what is he going to do?" Because they aren't...

I've never required a written backstory in any of my games. I have a number of players who enjoy it, however and they are more than welcome to do so. It's great for me as a DM to know more about their character ahead of time. For the players I have that either don't care to, or aren't that...

Realizing that this is a top-skimmed set of numbers from Roll20 and not a particularly in-depth analysis, I'm more interested to see the numbers for this next quarter. Taking them at face-value for what they are, I'm not overly surprised by 5e's placement. It's a new version of D&D, so it seems...

Started out with AD&D a bit before moving onto 3.5/Pathfinder. Dabbled a bit with 4e for a few months. I'm a huge fan of 3.5, and the majority of my games use it, or more recently pathfinder. That said, I put my vote in for 5e. I converted over a fairly new Pathfinder game to 5e when the basic...

A few ideas I had: Pathfinder: Female Synthesist Summoner - Feline Eidolon, every time she summons the ritual is a magical cat-girl transformation, complete with music and catchphrases. Broodmaster Summoner - Summons swarm of Corgi Eidolons that use grapples to cuddle enemies...