Recent content by Remathilis

Of course, the problem is making that all work under the context of a power-scaling group dynamic Game. Aspects like localized baddies, sacrifice and loss, etc is very hard to do in a game where four or more players sit around, eating Cheetos and quoting Monty Python. It's the same reason why...

This. Oh my God this! 2nd edition settings tried to bludgeon you into the genre tropes with major changes to the game, almost always punitive, as a way of controlling the players and forcing them into genre against their will. Dark Sun and Ravenloft are probably the best two examples of this...

Hostilities cease once both sides realize Acme is supplying both sides.

Second edition, eh? I, for one, cannot wait for Toon grognards to start the next great Toon Edition War.

I know the optimizer community relies on a half dozen pets using wands and Spell storing items to spam multiple spells per round, but and player who tries to rely on that is going to find his army targets of enemy attacks. (The same thing was true of conjuring large amounts of pixies or...

Me: Hmmm I wonder what people are discussing about the party role of the Artificer? Me, opening this thread:

It is 2028. DMs everywhere have banned the Warlock class to prevent the onslaught of Warlock protagonist clones.

I remember that, but I kinda wonder if (after the explicit grouping was abandoned) if the Artificer still fits. It doesn't seem reliant on skills the way a rogues, bards and even rangers are. No expertise, only two skills, etc. I kinda just put them with the rogue group because of their tool...

According to the 2024 PHB, certain classes can "replace" others and still be a balanced party. The list they give is this: Cleric: Replace with Bard or Druid Fighter: Replace with Barbarian, Monk, Paladin, or Ranger Rogue: Replace with Bard or Ranger Wizard: Replace with Bard, Sorcerer, or...

The game became sophomoric the minute stinking cloud became a spell.

Would you prefer an effeminate albino man being controlled by his sword? ;-)

Nah. It's like ttrpgs: you're either a small, scrappy indie doing it for the love of the game, or you're WotC. /S.

Mr. Dorey's warehouse from the Styes (Ghosts of Saltmarsh) the whole module is creepy and disturbing in a Lovecraftian way, but fighting skum mutants on a boat attached to a crane over a city street is so surreal and atmospheric it gave my Ravenloft players the creeps.

I'm not sure how "different" it would be and still be "official". But a D&D setting that "Eberronizes" D&D with S&S elements like thewy barbarians, Atlantians and sinister cults to the Great Old Ones would be interesting. You could do a lot with what's in the PHB (aasimar as living gods building...