Recent content by Indagare Nogitsune

I was watching this and was reminded that there were a great many mounted archers through history. In fact, I seem to recall Egyptians had chariot archers. I can't recall, off hand, any sort of mounted archer in either 5e or Level Up. Part of the problem, of course, is that mounts are not easy...

I'm really hoping that if I throw enough stuff on the wall some of it might stick and people might like it. I've given up hope that people will actually be interested in any of this, but maybe if they see someone plugging away at a setting they might get inspired. Stranger things have happened...

On Deities: We cannot talk about the immortality of souls without addressing the issue of deities. It's well known that souls can accumulate a large amount of gramarye. This is what allows everyone to access magic to one degree or another. For Fey and Elementals (who make up most of the...

I mean there are reasons to have them. It's just not always easy to figure out where or how they fit in with everything else, though the folks here have been very helpful with that!

I have a group I've been playing with for a few years now. The DM has been the same person and I thought it might be nice to try and do something so he can be a player for a change (given that DMing is a lot of work when done correctly). nods I had thought on that too, but BBEG are very common...

So, I'm trying to figure out how to make my very own First Adventure, but it's not clear what I should do. Being Author-Minded, I tend to think of things in the direction of a story but, of course, it needs to also be flexible enough that the Players don't feel railroaded. The thought starts...

"In the beginning, it is always dark." Epitopia is our world, a place created lovingly by Eidolia and Elemtia. We have here the Housed Spirits (often called Mortals), the Aethum Spirits (often called Elementals) and the Imagined Spirits (often called Fey). All Spirits whether Mortal...

Not quite. The Deities might be able to exist again, but they would need to figure out how they fit into a world that's been without them for so long. The next campaign could be about establishing these ties.

If it doesn't sound too sappy, my world idea is also somewhat based on Studio Ghibli films. While reading the Birdfolk and Oxfolk entries, I could see flying islands going like clouds over the landscape, or the Oxfolk wandering along with covered wagons among fields of grass where, at times some...

So while there are settings where the absence of deities tends to cause issues (Athas most notably and Ravenloft to some degree), there seems to be no reason deities actually have to exist in a setting; besides giving Clerics spells, divine beings seem to do very little else. Unlike in RL...

Tried this before, but since no one got back, I figured there's no harm in continuing to try. The last one was based on a poll that seemed to do well, so I'm not sure why the folks never got back. Perhaps the Bronze Age thing threw everyone off. Ah well. The A5e rules are pretty well laid-out...

I mean, yes. The apparent inability of Wizards to create a ball of force could be due to any number of reasons, ranging from divine intervention to how it always ends up looking like a dodge ball.

It's hard to be specific, but here's a couple examples from my head: 1) Water Wall. There's Wind Wall (3rd), Wall of Fire (4th), Wall of Stone (5th), and Wall of Ice (6th). In theory, the Wall of Ice could also fall under Water, since that's also usually within its domain, but stylistically it...

Having read No One Returns from the Enchanted Forest, I've gotten an idea for a potential setting and/or story (stories to go with settings are not exactly new). I'm going to include actual book spoilers in the spoilers to help clarify, but the basic premise is that young deities are placed in a...

While I know A5e/Level Up is supposed to be backwards compatible with 5e, I have to note that the spells in general are a problem. Most specifically, elemental-related spells. For Fire, this is not an issue at all. There's at least one Fire spell at every level. Air and Water cap out at 6th...