Recent content by Cap'n Kobold

Personally my view of firearms in D&D in D&D is based on the setting: Dark Sun and Eberron: Canonically non-existent. Greyhawk and Ravenloft: Extremely rare. I believe officially, there are more laser guns in Greyhawk than firearms. FR: Known to be some that were manufactured in significant...

So . . . What is your main job as an Armourer, particularly Dreadnaught and Infiltrator? Your features don't support much other than hitting things with your special weapon. Artificers have some buffing items, but with close to half of the spells of an actual caster, they generally have less...

What makes you believe that they are "artificially" "frozen"? It is unknown whether most D&D worlds have reached the level of metallurgy that allows casting or boring firearms to be manufactured cheaply. Why do you feel that D&D worlds being at this level of technology is "artificial" compared...

It absolutely is: At the the current point in 5.5. As long as firearms and bullets are martial weapons and many times the cost of shortbows and arrows, musketeers are going to be very rare, elite units, and work fine being fielded in the same armies as swords and plate. D&D firearms aren't...

The issue I found with Armourer is its lack of synergy with other systems. You deal elemental damage, but not with spells, so there aren't any spell-related feats that help your abilities, and your weapons don't have the properties for most weapon-using feats to be used with. Furthermore, your...

DPR is useful as a comparison tool rather than an exact mathematical expectation. A set of baseline assumptions can be made. There will be variation from these due to luck or unusual circumstances in real play, but variation should average out. More to the point, as long as those same...

How exactly are they defining atheists in this context? Does it include everyone who dies without making an active decision to worship one of the gods? Or is there a 'default' god that people who never had the choice go to, and you have to specifically choose to be an atheist on the Forgotten...

Are you dead-set on them being a Ranger and getting Ranger spells? You could cover a lot of this with the Thief or Scout Rogue, using their Expertise to boost the important skills, and a couple of the other abilities on that list are covered by feats.

What were the actual mechanical effects of these character-crippling conditions that you are so fond of? While the 1e items were listed as more concrete, the actual effects don't appear to be as self-contained as the 5e ones. I would assume that many of the limb-loss effects would be rather...

Hang on. - You have repeatedly said that bias and favouritism are beneficial and correct, even though WotC don't explicitly state that casters are designed to be superior and more interesting to play in general compared to martial classes. You encourage favouring certain PCs. That you have an...

First; define your Ninja. If you want ninja to be able to run the gamut of the historical espionage agents, hollywood's "monks, but in black!", or naruto-style spellcasters, then a background, or even just membership in a faction is all that should be required. These are all quite well covered...

Sounds like bad writing to me. Why does this person commit such a mix of acts? If they were driven to do good, then why would they also commit evil acts? Do they feel it is "justified" to commit evil acts against specific people? Are they not aware of what they are doing? Likewise someone who...

Never assume that a low-level PC will make any save. Never assume that a PC will be at full health. Anything able to deal 10 or more points of damage in a single go can outright kill a PC, and there are no options to bring them back at this level. Creatures that rely on multiple attacks are...

I think that the reason that modern D&D doesn't tend to get into the above example is less about combat-as-war being less popular (although it is), and more about gaming-as-war being less popular. People are playing more heroic characters, and adventures have become more about achieving a...

Cinematic combat isn't just Marvel cinematic universe-like depictions. There are other styles of combat: cinematic often just means narrative and dynamic: people are fighting for a reason, in a challenging and changing scenario. Maybe, but one example I quoted had someone changing their action...