Recent content by Sword of Spirit

That's how I do it. Who knows what's going to happen during the session until it's done.

I had to stop reading and comment on this. There is no need to make new characters and justify anything with a soft reboot, unless thats's what the players want to do. I'd just rewind to before the DM took out their personal issues on the PCs and start the campaign right there with them all...

I really like the wizard art in the 2014 PHB. Something about the character and the color saturation just really works for me. This one is okay too as an action piece (maybe casting a wish or something?)

Aren't the names of allied combatants in a different color than hostile ones, or was that added in a later game?

I reloaded every time a level drain happened (or a character died). I earned those XP and I was not about to let the monsters take them from me. Take my hp, take my spell slots, take my arrows! But leave my XP ALONE!

It's worth noting that paladins also have detect good and evil on their spell list, which has similar functionality and a 10 minute duration. So Divine Sense is sort of intended to be extra uses of an instantaneous burst capability, while they can use the spell for a more ongoing investigation...

These were both some of my early formative computer game experiences, and my early formative D&D experiences! Recently, I started playing Fell Blade: Arbiter's Mark, which is inspired by Final Fantasy Tactics (which I never played but hear is good). When I first started I played on the Beginner...

If you go with actual PHB, to add to the 5e options, 1e gave you assassin, and 4e gave you warlord, and that's all that isn't in 5e unless you count illusionist. If you go beyond and include expansions (only 4e really add split it's PHB classes over multiple books, 3e had a "PHB 2" but it was...

Agreed. Also, one of the things that strikes me about design-by-committee is that there are better and worse ways of doing it. For instance, I think those elements were generally a boon to the original 5e design (even if I wouldn't have chosen every single outcome myself) because of how they...

Only one of our party members died in it, and he basically died saving my character in the last fight. (It's okay though, he got better.) My character ended up with a lingering knee scar he still hasn't gotten take care of though.

It seems poorly written. The intent is likely that they can take that action again to turn back. That isn't the only place such things are overlooked. The warlock's One With Shadows invocation doesn't let you take the Hide action to hide once you are invisible. Saying that you "can't take...

That's basically my philosophy. Physical stuff you can see with the naked eye follows a baseline of cinematic physics (I don't go for making it all mythic, due to D&D tradition) but when you get into the microscopic realm, this is a fantasy world, and I don't assume the same stuff is necessarily...

I think what I'm going to end up using is the 5.5e version, minus the Strength boost (I think it's worth more than a half-feat). I did have to finagle another rule I'm using to make it work, since one of my goals is to balance the costs and benefits of the different fighting styles. As the...

Campaigns for me have to be at least a couple years to get the name, and sticking to a narrowed focus like that might get old in that time frame. I do however occasionally run what I call "theme adventures" for just such a purpose. Early in 5e I ran a Questing Knights adventure (10 sessions I...

I don't use minion rules for it, but I love combats like that. (After a few levels, some low-level mooks can effectively go down to 1 hit using normal stats.)