Recent content by SkidAce

Depends on where you look, one example from SCAG

Yeah, that Occultist stuff is good.

Anecdotal is anecdotal of course.... The noob group we just formed who had never played any DnD had a difference in expectations for magic versus psionics based on modern anime and movies. THey literally asked "Why do I need material components* for my mind powers". *they had been exposed to...

Would Detect Thoughts have a visible display? Its an honest question, I have wrestled with this issue for years, the balance is difficult. We used to have psionics working in anti-magic zones, cause "its not magic", and you couldn't dispel it. Nowadays, we decided that both "magic" and...

Recent mini for game...legendary chimera (dragon breath, lions roar (fear), and goat scream (confusion). Plus flyby attack.

I always thought that the waves were there to show the viewer (4th wall) and that they were actually not seen by anyone.

Drugs, poisons, pain.

Interesting...I like. But what effect would it have?

My My players dont notice..."oh thats from Tasha's ?...my bad" and they are not being sneaky...its just that level of detail is why they are using a character builder in the first place..."it showed it to me".

I skip eyes. They either get too big or too small, never look correct.

I still like the "its science we don't understand yet" flavor.

Some definitions disagree.