Recent content by JPL

I’ve been poking around and trying to learn a little bit more about the setting. I don’t know if this is the vibe they’re going for it all, but it looks to me like you could do a real slobs versus snobs thing where the heroes are basically Firefly level and the antagonist are some inscrutable...

https://evilrobotgames.com/exodus-travelers-handbook-a-dd-5e-2024-scifi-rpg/ Much more info.

"Your stats and skills also scale more rapidly, thanks to a Constellation tattoo that boosts a stat or adds a skill proficiency with every level up. Plus, you get the usual Ability Score Improvements at levels four and eight." I guess the effect is that a character who maxes out to 10th level...

Wizards of the Coast quietly released its Exodus RPG, and it's just DnD in space "The Cataphract class operate specialized Mechs, for example, while Rangers partner with Awakened animals that have the same sapience as post-humans."

Can someone tell me what the classes are and maybe a little detail on each? I don't know a single thing about this property, but I desperately want a solid starting point for sort of a d20 Modern based on the 5E engine (and Everyday Heroes is not what I was looking for).

Plenty of room for a Charisma fighter build. I'd like to see more subclasses that put that second-best ability score to good use. Elementalist sorcerer with a high Constitution, tactician fighter with high Charisma, thug rogue with high Strength, that sort of thing. Mostly for the classes...

So this Dragon Delves touches upon the possibility of running a game with one player plus one DM. Riddle me this: assuming they get juiced up a little by the Blessing of the Lone Champion, what sort of character would be best / most fun? Off the top of my head . . . A lone ranger, so to...

I got your bone domain right here!

[LOWER DECK AND WWDITS SPOILERS] This concept isn't really about the PCs going from the Little Guys to the Big Guys . . . this is about surviving long enough to become a Lower Medium Sized Guy. It's like Lower Decks, where Boimler's arc is from being an Ensign who wants to be a Captain, to a...

The real hook, I think, is that this is a campaign where the PCs need to rely on their wits rather than their power. That Deception check might do more to keep you alive than a fireball.

Maybe do a high fantasy riff on Rick and Morty and Star Trek: Lower Decks. In a world dominated by megalomaniacal archwizards ruling flying cities, the heroes are lowly but ambitious but probably doomed apprentices, running errands and trying to stay alive. The party's patron is not...

I've been letting this ferment in my brain a little bit. It is interesting to make the whole bunch of them chaotic evil by default, both the beautiful ones and the ugly ones. However, I think I prefer one group that is sort of the 4th ed. Mad Lords of the Feydark, and then another group with...

Always liked the look of those guys. I'm doing a one-shot this weekend where the big bad is a Feydark fomorian (I'm the only guy who really dug the 4th edition Feydark), and something in my head just clicked that the fomorians are just a fallen tribe of eldritch giants. And now I came up...

I've been interested in the talk of revisiting the Moonshaes and doing some kind of a Celtic / fairytale thing there. This bard scratches a particular itch --- the bard with a strong element of druid.

As to Purple Dragons and retcons . . . look, crap gets retconned all the time. There are suddenly ten kinds of goliath and they can get big, Not All Orcs, etc. Don't like it, don't use it.