Recent content by Frozen_Heart

I've always felt that 1st level characters are both too powerful, and too squishy. I enjoy the 'zero to hero' trope, rather than starting as superheroes from level 1. With regular point buy the lowest you're allowed is an 8, which isn't even a real weakness. It's just a bit below average...

Yeah it weirds me out how people say that guns could never be balanced in DnD, when the PHB literally has functional and balanced guns as options in it.

I've never seen the issue with firearms in DnD, and I'd definitely allow them assuming that particular setting supports them (pistol and musket that is, not the advanced firearms from the dmg). I know a lot of people say that guns instantly make it not fantasy, but as I hopped over to DnD from...

If they kept expanding into this design space, I feel that lycanthropy and vampirism equivalents to lich and death knight would be quite cool. Could go nuts and work out divine, fiendish, elemental, and even more versions.

Yeah even though neither of these two options works well for the type of character I build, I'm super excited for how this could be expanded in the future. Feat chains of so much potential from both a storytelling and mechanical build perspective.

I always kinda headcanon elves being seperate species being related to be far older and having longer to diverge from each other (also irl humans are all rather genetically... snug to each other). Of course that headcanon doesn't work when all the species got created by divine means a few years...

Yeah varying human abilities by race would not go over well these days. It works for DnD species, but even then there are people who aren't ok with it. And I love Elder Scrolls lore. But there is no chance in hell that level of racism would work in DnD.

I guess that does make sense in some cases. e.g. Antarctica on Earth used to be a thriving forested biosphere. Slowly the ice increased each year until the entire continent was scoured of life. (except penguins, as they're just built different) Life is fine everywhere else, but to the...

I don't really feel that 'dying of the light' settings work very well if you can just travel one continent over to get to a hopeful optimistic setting with a different tone. End of the world settings are my favourites, but they don't work nearly as well when happyland is a few miles down the road.

Nerath has always been my favorite core setting, but I feel it goes directly against what a modern audience wants. Modern DnD is bright, high magic, well populated, and cosmopolitan. Nerath was by definition a 'points of light' setting, where civilisation is a guttering flame which could go out...

(how about putting them both on the chopping block?)

Which settings would you choose to remain as core settings? Which would you axe?

I regret taking a sip of water while reading this comment.

It's a real shame they dumped that setting (along with pretty much every other good part of 4e). Though I do suspect that it might have been a bit gritty for modern audiences. I disliked most things about 4e, but WotC decided to throw out all the good along with the bad.

Artwork is basically the thing which makes or breaks a setting for the average buyer. Very few people glance at a giant text wall and want to investigate. But a cool picture can start people reading.