Levistus's_Leviathan
5e Freelancer
In that case, I agree that a sword mage class would be nice.
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D&D (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies
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Spear. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: [rollable]+3;{'diceNotation':'1d20+3','rollType':'to hit','rollAction':'Spear'}[/rollable] to hit, ...
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DEX 12
CON 12
INT 10
WIS 11
CHA 10
Exactly
DWARF TRAITS
Creature Type Humanoid
Size: Medium (about4–5 feet tall)
Speed: 30 feet
Life Span: Dwarves mature at the same rate as humans, but they're considered young until they reach the age of 50. They live 350 years on average
As a Dwarf, you have these special traits.
- Darkvision. You have Darkvision with a range of 60 feet.
- Dwarven Resilience. You have Resistance to Poison Damage. You also have Advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the Poisoned Condition on yourself.
- Forge Wise. Your divine creator gave you an uncanny affinity for working with stone or metal. You gain Tool Proficiency* with two of the following options of your choice: Jeweler’s Tools, Mason’s Tools, Smith’s Tools, or Tinker’s Tools.
- Dwarven Lineage: You are part of a lineage of lineage of dwarves linked to stone and metal by your divine creator. Choose a lineage of the Dwarven lineage table. You gain the Senses feature and Lineage benefit of your lineage.
- Stonecunning.As a Bonus Action, you gain Tremorsense with a range of 60 feet for 10 minutes. You must be on a stone surface or touching such a surface to use this Tremorsense. The stone can be natural or worked.
You can use this Bonus Action a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest. - Superior Darkvision. Your Darkvision increases to 120 feet
- Stonecunning.As a Bonus Action, you gain Tremorsense with a range of 60 feet for 10 minutes. You must be on a stone surface or touching such a surface to use this Tremorsense. The stone can be natural or worked.
| Dwarven Lineage | Senses | Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| Hill | Stonecunning | Toughness. Your Hit Point Maximum increases by 1, and it increases by 1 again whenever you gain a level. |
| Mountain | Stonecunning | Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift. Backswing. Your natural downswing is mighty, You have Proficiency and Mastery in either the battleaxe or handaxe. |
| Summit | Stone Cunning | Peakborn: You have resistance to cold damage. You’re also acclimated to high altitude, including elevations above 20,000 feet. Compact: You have Advantage on Strength Saving Throws |
| Volcano | Superior Darkvision | Forgeborn. You have resistance to fire damage. Hammer Arm. Your natural downswing is mighty, You have Proficiency and Mastery in either the light hammer or warhammer. |
| Deep | Superior Darkvision | Duergar Magic. Psionic Fortitude. You have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the charmed or stunned condition on yourself. |
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
Sure, but are you expecting WotC to give you that? That's the question I asked.
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
That's a big problem too. PCs should not, IMO, be anywhere near as oh-so-special and unique as they are.
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
There is, in theory, such a thing as asymmetric balance. It just requires more work than some companies want to pay designers to do.
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
We should get rid of ASIs altogether IMO. Leave stat increases to a by level thing and get them out of character creation, or just remove them completely from player control.
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
We do those things...now, if we choose to play games that subscribe to that philosophy. I prefer the actual possibility of death and failure to be present.
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
Immersion to me means feeling like you're playing in an imaginary world that follows consistent rules and feels like it could be a real place. Story as a thing you're creating has very little to do with it.How did AD&D meet your demand of flavor matching the mechanics? And how does immersion play a part in it? I like to think immersion means trying to get into character. You mechanically and conceptually create a character, and then you try to role-play your character alongside several other actors (the other members of your role-playing group) in an interactive story created by the DM. I say try because sometimes we succeed at our Performance checks and sometimes we don't.Either way, we're doing it because it's fun.
Hussar
Legend
Except that there is almost never a 1:1 relationship between narrative and mechanical objects in the game. It's all abstraction. And because they're abstractions, there is so much vague, fuzzy connections between the mechanics and the narrative.
