Recent content by Davinshe

I think one of the best things you can do to give a game a 1st edition feel is remove the knowledge gaining skills. Perception, investigation, insight, arcana, religion, and nature should all go. The result is an exploration tier that consists more in a diceless back and forth between DM and...

When a single individual can pack more power than a squadron of tanks, and when such individuals are common, the potential for society to rip itself apart is pretty high. So it's entirely possible that in such a world it's just not worth congregating together in large cities. Too many people all...

I once tried to use my "rustic hospitality" feature during an adventure league game at gencon to find a safe place to hide while being pursued by guards in an adventure. Not only did the DM not allow this, they gave me that look one gives players when they are trying to get one over on you. For...

One of my most successful villains was a high-level cleric known as "father Matthis". Father Matthis was a cleric of Pelor god of light, and was in many ways a fairly typical cleric that hated the same forces of evil that the group did. So when the party's swordmage died, they went to him to...

Right -- the ethereal plane really only exists to justify certain spells mechanically, and I'm fine with it not actually being a great place to adventure. That said, it's a fine place to put something that really, really, really wants to be left alone and as a sort of dumping ground for...

yeah, since we don't have a positive energy plane anymore, quasi-elementals don't really make a ton of sense. They didn't all have particularly strong themes anyway (we really needed an ash elemental AND a dust elemental?)

I am in the "entirely reject" camp when it comes to the new backgrounds, and I doubt anything can change my mind. For me, one's backstory needs to be mostly independent from one's build. The idea that I'd have to have a lower score in my primary ability because of my backstory is anathema to...

wow, threadcromancy indeed! I'd like to think you're correct about it being a mistake, since having things take a little less than 50% additional time seems far more reasonable. But I have to point out that errata for the DMG does exist and never changed this -- likewise the rules are the same...

I hated the bastion rules preview -- and since they are keeping the concept of bastion turns, I doubt I'm going to like the ones that eventually see print. They were at once too gamey while giving the players too few ways to meaningfully interact with their base. When I think back to BECMI rules...

wasn't there a "Batman Inc." series that basically did this? Superior spiderman sorta did this as well, with Doc Oc (in the body of Spiderman) creating squadrons of spider henchmen to keep the city safe for him.

Interesting! I always said that Batman in JLA was basically a completely different character than his solo issues due to the fact that his essential trait becomes ingenuity and invention when with the justice league (the only characteristics he has that can be made to be relevant among his more...

Yknow, while it doesn't support it out of the box I bet it wouldn't be hard to make an archetype in powered by the apocalypse that could support a mentor / powerhouse since the base system has most of the qualities you list

Lately I've been watching the amazing "Frieren: Journey's End", which for any unfamiliar, features a team of young heros accompanied by a 1,000 year old elf and it got me thinking again about wanting to play a game where one can play a mentor or elder figure like Gandalf or Frieren without...

I want the valor bard to get access to weapon mastery properties too. Any subclass that gets an extra attack option probably should get at least one weapon mastery to count as a real weapons user.

Same, this is pretty but I'm tired of heroes in context-free generically cool poses. I miss the old school art that more often than not tended to tell a story. It's been this way since 3rd edition and while it's gorgeous, it lacks soul.