Recent content by I'm A Banana

One of the weirdest things to me in D&D is this kind of cultural bias against having martial characters (especially fighters and rogues) be inherently magical, in the sense that they have clearly supernatural powers that are clearly not of the common world. Like, I can't give my Fighter healing...

My setting at the moment is explicitly Christian, though it's borked and cursed, so that doesn't really matter to the daily lives of the people very much. Cleric spells don't really come from the Literal Christian God as much as they come from the holy objects the priests use, which are more...

It's like I always tell The Ladies: Finishing is overrated. I really like the WotC anthologies. Radiant Citadel was a very good and very fun. And I think one of the big mistakes of the setting books for Spelljammer, Planescape, and Dragonlance was in doing One Big Adventure instead of like a...

Also the Fighter, but y'all ain't ready for that realness. ;) Look, every class is optional. You only need as many classes as you want to need. IMO, the sorcerer is fine as the "inborn magic" character (vs. the wizard as a more "studied magic" character). I like the vibe of "I got my magic...

My read is that "imbuing" is defined by the feat, and so that doesn't take a spell slot. "Cast" is where I'd rule the spell slot is spent. It's also a little wild that this lets you access any spell on your spell list. Not powerful, exactly, just...weird. "I'm Jeormy the Wizard, and I have...

Correlation isn't causation, of course, and it shouldn't be surprising that college success and good jobs go hand in hand with a lot of things OTHER than "intelligence." Not exactly. They were originally designed to identify if French schoolchildren needed academic help rather than to be sent...

Autognomes, meanwhile, have no canonical mention of a soul. And neither do gnomes....:oops: One of the early twists of the campaign I play the autognome in is that it is actually in Hell. Every character experiences a deep guilt and is consigned to hell because of it. Which suggested that my...

And to an LG person, that's not desirable. Sacrifice for a greater cause? Perhaps. Sacrifice for another person? No, you are de-valuing yourself. This is supported in game. The Athar in Planescape play with this idea a bit, via the idea that devotion to a god is never a Good thing, even if it's...

I don't see why it matters in this specific instance? Like, especially in game design, sometimes things work differently in action than they were intended to in development. If you're trying to find out who is "right" in this game of make-believe you've already lost the plot, friend. Do you...

Why do you need evidence of the creator's intent, here? The reality is that machine-people and transforming people inherently give options for people who don't fit into traditional gender roles ways to express that in gameplay. What's Keith got to do with that?

It's compatible with hierarchy in as much as that hierarchy serves good and order. An LG character sees a good king, and that's fine, but what might be better is a good council, where power is shared between good people - more sustainable, more ordered. Putting an end to a monarchy or an empire...

My own perspective on Lawful isn't so much that they "uphold the law" as that they prefer order. In a vacuum, to a Lawful individual, civic laws are generally a desired thing, since civic laws help everyone behave in an expected way, and thus increases order. An LN person values this order as...

Without overthinking... LG - Offers to pay for what the man has stolen (normal); embarks on a campaign to end poverty by challenging the system that produces them, changing it so that all have enough money (heroic) NG - I didn't see anything, what are you talking about? (normal); embarks on a...

Back when chainmail bikinis were a big thing, you could count on the person buying your fantasy product to, for the most part, be a heterosexual cisgender white tween boy whose parents were working class or wealthier. So big muscles (exactly what your tween wants to be) and scantily clad ladies...

The nuance here is that it actually depends on how many risks you feel like you can take. If you need mass appeal, you take relatively few risks. If you don't need mass appeal, you can take more risks. At a certain level of expected $, you need mass appeal. Which is how we get Disney...