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I want my Swashbuckler with Beef Tallow Onion Rings. On a serious note: Swashbucklers, to me, should be dexterity based melee...

I do this all the time. It is one of my go to techniques when following the guidelines for encounter design in the 2014 DMG. PCs are...

Your definitive statement of what a game mechanic must be is misplaced. As noted - I used these off and on for a looooooong time...

They're not baseline abilities you need to have in every game, but - gosh tootin - they have a place in certain games - but I do not use...

I'd draw a difference here. Fear: If the creature ends its turn in a space where it (the target) doesn’t have line of sight to you, the...

This is a bit heavy handed of a way to say it, but I agree that this outline takes away player agency. Man plans. God laughs. DM...

You know who really hated name dropping? Gary, or as I liked to call him ... Gary.

What did you describe that you consider to be a problem? Technology and magic seem to work together in your examples. The problems...

The numbers shift a bit when you start to factor in frequency of use of the monsters. For example, demons and devils make a lot of...

The Forgotten Realms books were announced for November a long time ago.

I'm a little surprised to be seeing this in August, but to have no signs of the FR book. The FR UA was first...

Magic is made up. Technology is not. We can set rules for magic, but technology with limitations that don't make sense in the real...

This is a really broad skill set. "Machinery, architecture, constructs, math, physics, complex traps, and similar technologies" is...

I'm with you on the feels here ... it gave me the icks. However, skill represents things you can learn ... and you can train endurance...

I did a Predator subclass for ranger in 5E. It was designed to, in a condensed time scale, mimic the behavior of predator animals...