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Do note that there's a big difference between level 4 and level 5. 5 is one of the big power jump levels. Extra attacks, 3rd level spells, whatever other extras.. it's a biggie.

Yeah I can see why you'd ask that- it sounds like the biggest reasons would be 1. knowing that it's a thing at all, and 2. organizing it. The accuser needs to have 6 other people willing to risk their lives as well. In the post-show interviews they said that Aerion pulling that out was his way...

What's railroading to me as a player? "OK it feels like this noble hiring us for the job isn't on the up and up- can I ask around town to see if he has a history of screwing over people that take jobs for him?" "No, you accepted the quest so you need to go do that. You leave in the morning. The...

Which Warcraft has a tinker class?

Yup! It probably took the nerf a little too far? Especially since cantrips were made so potent as to keep pace with martials' attacks... it seems a little counter to the mission statement.

Since we're talking about origins of DnD media.. I have a recent one to share: The King of Elfland's Daughter. Been listening to a lot of Loot the Body recently: Which tickled a memory: hey, DCC has King of Elfland as a patron- didn't they have an adventure with that title? Nope, it's the...

Dwarves being greedy and having dragon-sickness isn't specifically a Tolkien thing- if we look at old folkore we see some real origin story stuff for dwarf greed and dragon-sickness Fáfnir - Wikipedia Fafnir was a dwarf who killed his own family, stole their ?magic? ring and treasure hoard...

Can you elaborate on the question? Because just not having the Great Wheel planes wouldn't discount aasimar and tieflings. My setting doesn't use the great wheel, but it does have Saints and Harrows, servants of the two primary gods. People worship those saints n harrows; aasimar come about...

Oh ha I did not see this since I don't use most of the '24 stuff unless a player requests it. Yeah you are spot-on, wow. Either they thought players would be confused because druids had circles and paladins had oaths, or they just wanted to genericize them all to the same term for other reasons.

No no, I get it now. Not selling pdfs of their current edition is just another sacred cow of DnD. Respect it 😆

I'm guessing this was a house-ruled Avatar of Death? I can't see RAW avatar of death(s) killing a tarrasque 😆