Recent content by Distracted DM

To my eye this is different take on E6... but also not! I guess it's more fair to safe I did a mockup of E9 for 5e, haven't run it as of yet. I like the idea behind it, though I think I'd be more partial to E# because it keeps the crazy spells etc. out of play... but I can understand that...

Actually @dave2008 had some interesting takes on improved versions of magic resistance that might be worth a look, if you like the Rakshasas immunity but don't want to spam it to every magic resistant baddie. Did you ever playtest those, Dave? Where's that thread... What's funny is that having...

Not exactly- I'd prefer to be running DCC, but DnD5e is what my players prefer and I like my players enough to keep running DnD5e.

The long-term years-long campaign is an idealized romantic notion perpetuated by media (stuff like CritRole) and ads (this canned adventure will last many, many levels- think of all the fun times you'll have going from 1-12, or 1-20!). It certainly exists, I've had a few campaigns that went the...

The Warlock has thus far been the most surprising: One with Shadows is infinite Invisibility casts, they don't even have to stay in darkness/dim light to stay invisible, only to cast it. Pact of the Blade lets them change their weapon damage to necrotic, psychic, or radiant on the fly...

I allowed 5e24 PCs in one of my games to see how it stacked up vs A5E stuff. The power ramp-up has put me off allowing 5e24 stuff in my games going forward. They're not more complex/sophisticated power increases like Level Up A5E's, they're just flat-out overall better. It really wasn't necessary.

The new Forgotten Realms book is supposed to reintroduce circle casting- groups casting a single spell. The idea is interesting, but I have little faith in WotC giving us an exciting system to work with. Your idea of partner casting is cool (I like teamwork stuff!), but chorus casting =...

We should just start another 5e math thread :'D

I've done +str items in the past, similar to how you work yours (a fine idea it is!), but this was actually a request of a said player, they went on a quest for it, etc. So it wasn't a custom item as I've done in the past, and I had not considered altering the items as they were since the player...

Back OP's question, I guess part of what to consider here is the following situation: Player makes choices that give them a leg-up early on (capping out their main stat). Should they be able to have their cake and eat it too? Intentionally cap out the main stat, and then later benefit by having...

I'm glad the prices made it even easier to say "no thank you," because the temptation was still there even though I'd resolved not to back it.

13A 1e was a great system. What stands out to you @Zaukrie ? I haven't looked at the PDFs yet, honestly I'm not likely to for a while.

Some folk don't see licensing the property as "working with," since JG isn't involved in the design of the remake. I mentioned this in another thread, but originally when all of this went down folk on the GG Discord were incensed at the news.. but then when it became clear that JG wasn't...

So here's the thing: sort of, but also not. What determines heroism? In my mind, the monsters' capabilities vs the PCs. 5e characters can punch way above their weight class, and the difficulty of many monsters came down. In 4e and ancient red dragon was a level 30 solo monster. In 5e, it's a...

More importantly, it's affecting the rate at which you hit (in order to deal damage) and/or the enemy fails their saves vs. your spells/features.