Recent content by Aurel Guthrie

I don't like that so many monsters give rider effects without the need of a saving throw. My players have a few times gotten ready to roll a saving throw only for me to have to say "Sorry, you're automatically prone", it's kind of disappointing especially when it's targetting a player...

Been over a year since I draw, and I'm pretty happy with the result! This is Caeda / Emily, a character I've been playing for almost two years, who is trying to rediscover themself after losing their memories at the end of the campaign's first arc.

Well you've got to post #1364, of course!

Yes, I think people forget that d&d (at least its modern iteration) is a heroic fantasy game, and there's got to be a good amount of suspension of disbelief.

Can you imagine? "You can take an additional action, except the magic action, or a ready action to cast a spell" it's kind of silly. If the designers had to write around every single workaround the players might find there would be so. much. bloat. in the rules. There's a reason for the "Rules...

I usually gravitate towards Elves, Humans, and Tieflings, in that order. I know, very vanilla. In my defense, my groups all usually end up going for more fantastical species, so I pick Elves and Humans for a bit of balance. Although some of my favorite characters I've played have been a Gnome...

I would love for a next edition to be a little more... low power. Crank down the superhero feel of modern d&d characters into something more grounded. I imagine something like, the max spell slot a caster could have could be 5th level. Higher level spells like, say, Teleport or Wish might need...

I've not played the module, but since they defeated a dragon, I'd have the city award them with materials harvested from the dragon. Pristine dragon scales, or claws, or even the dragon heart which they could potentially use in the creation of magic items. Like a mantle of dragon scales giving...

I think if they wanted to add a third extra class to 5e, it'd likely be Warlord given its popularity. It's definitely the class I've seen asked for the most besides Psion/Mystic. I'm actually positive that they'll add more classes. It hasn't been that long since the books came out and we've had...

"Towering over most folk, goliaths are distant descendants of giants." is directly from the 2024 handbook. To me distant descendant = not a direct descendant = not a half race. You can nitpick the word evolved but at that point we're arguing semantics, the point is that they're not a half race...

While I'm against WOTC getting rid of half-races, being a distant descendant doesn't make you a half-race. Goliaths evolved from Giants. A half-elf or half-orc has very direct ancestry with elves or orcs: parents, grandparents, and half-elves/orcs are interesting for not truly belonging to...

We started a campaign with 2024 rules and one of my players is playing a Storm Goliath. He seems to be having a great time, and we weaved his Goliath's tribe storm powers seamlessly into the lore of the setting as well. I'm also putting different Goliath tribes on different biomes and giving...

The closest thing to an everyman class I've seen that actually pulls their weight is Laserllama's Savant class, who uses their knowledge and intellect to rise above. It's not exactly an everyman, becoming pretty much a genius at some point, but it's still much less fantastical than the PHB...

I think Hunter's Mark without concentration should come into play at level 5 rather than 1 to discourage dipping one level into Ranger to get free damage on every attack on top of whatever spell they're concentrating on. Tbh I think Hunter's Mark shouldn't be a spell at all but just a Ranger...