Recent content by doctorbadwolf

As much as I despise allegory, I can respect this stance a hell of a lot more than the supposedly simulationist arguments for bioessentialism.

I hate it, but in that way where I wouldn’t have them change it because I want dargons to have impossible physiology and not be natural rationally comprehensible creatures.

To me, BM is blue (indigo). EK….silver and cyan/aqua or purple. Red is Champion all day. Psi Warrior….idk I don’t like it anyway lol. If you want a NPC to feel like a BM, just give it a riposte reaction, and maybe 2-3 maneuvers, that work like legendary actions.

Physical and digital of two books, plus digital bonuses (which legitimately do seem like they’d have just been cut entirely if they hadn’t been made digital exclusives), a Faerun Atlas. As long as the books aren’t small, I’d say it’s a fair price, but still too much for me probably, especially...

Sembia isn’t exactly in a state to challenge their neighbors, and Netheril is gone. Why would Cormyr care if the self-declared nobles of a nation that is still rebuilding dislike that their order of heroic cavaliers expand operations?

A human with 10 strength could carry a halfling fairly easily, and be able to see over the snow, so…that would only happen in order to make a meta point. To be fair.

Yeah I ditched culture early on. I find it more problematic than old school D&D races. Much closer to real world rhetoric about “race”, because that’s all “race” is IRL, regional cultural groups that on average look more like eachother than like “outsiders”. Instead I have Ancestry and...

Sam would definitely manage both, it’s true. The MVP of LoTR.

I mean, plenty of people actively seek out dangerous challenges without being bad at normal life. I’d go so far as to say that enjoying fear and near-death adrenaline highs is a normal human trait. Not universal, but certainly fairly common. We see the aurochs and think, “Bet I could jump on...

That seems like a super weird assumption. Why?

What bothers me is WOTC trying to have it both ways. If Wood Elves are fast because of their biological or supernatural nature, which they have said is the case it’s species traits, then you cannot also say that the stats for species in the PHB only represents exceptional individuals.

Absolutely. And in my own game I have constructed Ancestries to have signature traits, skills, and even bonus Attribute Points, but with guidelines for making a character different from other, eg, Döragr, and be graceful and acrobatic instead of tough and clever. But most Ancestries are also...

I do still want to someday figure out a way to make traits after character creation fully narrative, while keeping the game balanced with ways to seek out training and new resources during downtime and a “xyz amount of new abilities means you gain a level” so that challenges can use levels to be...

So a while back I posted this thread about how I’m doing advancement in my game. I was trying to avoid tracking xp and just have traits you gain semi-diagetically. The problem is, doing so while also using levels and letting players choose traits from a list just doesn’t work (it could but it...

Okay? Your reply was ridiculous, and implied that I was lying about my own experience. Just admit you misunderstood and replied in a kneejerk fashion. This has gotten quite silly.