Recent content by Remathilis

Sounds like power creep. Unless you are removing those extra proficiency from classes.

2014 I can see, but WotC didn't use that because they were still trying to push the multiverse. The elf section doesn't talk about sun and moon elf culture, or strongheart and lightfoot cultures for halflings. We get some human ethnicities but they are divorced from the lands they dwell in, the...

But you have to root those cultures in the world. For example, gold dwarves are more isolated, have a great warrior culture, worships the dwarf God of war, have waged a war against aberrations and speaks the languages under dark species, that makes sense IN FAERUN ONLY. But you can't put gold...

For the best unfortunately. The only people I trust less than WotC when it comes to balance is the community..

While true, it's important to note that there are non-spell abilities like grapples or mind blasts of monsters that also target weak saves (just as there are non-magical effects that target strong saves). Just using spells isn't a clear indicator of how to balance saves.

That seems like either a madcap romp using the BoEF or an actual rule in FATAL...

Really? Pray tell which? Greyhawk? Forgotten Realms? I could see the argument for that in 2014 and the Realms, but even then the core didn't give enough info to develop cultures with. Unless you are referring again to "elf" being a culture and we're back to where we started. Might as well give...

That is my takeaway too. A LOT of nerd culture is currently being used as the battlegrounds for culture wars. It started with video games in Gamergate and quickly spiraled into Sequel Hate in Star Wars (infecting a lot of other franchises along the way). The way you fight it is to break down the...

We usually don't get UAs for feats or species, so I'm absolutely not surprised this wasn't given a UA. (Nor were the spells, feats, or backgrounds for Heroes of Faerun). We only get UAs on those things when they are experimenting with concept (such as Ravenloft's lineages or turning Dragonmarks...

Forge of the Artificer is a 128 page book for $30. This is roughly 32 pages (1/4th the size) for 1/2 the price. If you want to go apples to apples, ForA digital is only $20. Four times the pages for $5 more. Which tells me either FotA is absurdly cheap or ABoH is about $5 too much. (And I say...

How do you put culture into the PHB without assigning a default setting? You would need to create specific cultural elements (language, religion, dress, tradition, etc) for them to matter, and unless you want the PHB to define every culture of elf on Oerth, Faerun, Krynn, Eberron, Athas, etc...

Hi, let me help. I'm not going to pretend I remember all the details of a game that happened over a decade ago. But let me give what I can recall. We had encounters with the Lich over a decade of adventures. Each time was (retconned) into dealing with a simulacrum with a fraction of his...

Minsc and Boo Journal of Villainy

Oh I absolutely get them wanting to get these in front of Astarion fans ASAP, but I also gotta believe some if not all of them are getting into some Ravenloft/horror book next year.

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