Recent content by JPL

Fair enough. I just wanna do a celestial pact warlock with a sphinx of wonder who does most of the fighting and most of the thinking for the two.

This will surely pair nicely with chain-pact warlock, and I think a build based around a juiced-up familiar sounds very flavorful.

Battle Familiar. Hell, yes. That should be a thing. EDIT: Oh, and it's in the preview, other than the stat block. Still a big fan, although you're gonna burn through a lot of smallish diamonds. But you can do a Battle Cat style transformation of your familiar into an attack critter, and...

I like the idea with the Monk. I think there is room for a pet – based warlock build, but I agree with the earlier commenters that the essence of vestige magic is that you have multiple weak patrons.

Yeah, I am totally pledging my soul to that Krampus-looking bastard.

Mongor Patron required a Google: "Mongor is a goat-like demon who grows in power where ever he finds fear." You had me at "goat-like demon." You had me at "goat-like demon."

https://www.firstcomicsnews.com/thundercats-roleplaying-game-book-is-live-now-on-kickstarter-with-ultra-limited-editions/ "Through the character creation process, players can pick from among newly created subclasses like the Mechanist, Path of Collision, College of Omens, Ancient Spirits of...

Well let me pitch something little more specific: dragonmarks in the Forgotten Realms could be a mark of divine favor, and that ties you into a huge body of lore related to the Faerunian pantheons. I don't know if it marks you as a full-fledged Chosen, but maybe it's at least possible first...

I see your point, but to me, it is still a mechanically interesting option to model some of the scenarios described in my initial post, even when you remove it from this original lore.

I just really like the notion that some folks have a little bit of natural magic, or learn enough to help them do their job, or have potential for some specific little niche of spellcraft. These new dragonmark feats really fit that bill nicely, don’t they? And they all pair nicely with...

I guess my head canon is that "Purple Dragons" or "Purple Dragon Knights" are acceptable terms for the organization as a whole, but only the ones who have paired up with dragons are "Knights" per se. Pendragon sometimes uses the title "Esquire At Arms" for someone who is a former squire and now...

Another point to ponder --- how many actual Purple Dragon Knights are there? It's really a question of how many amethyst dragons are signed up. More specifically, I think this must be something almost exclusively limited to Wrymlings (Medium, and able to carry Small riders) and Young dragons...

Oh, I dunno...they set up the idea, I think, that this is a relatively recent arrangement, and they don't override the original lore, they just add something new. That said . . . absolutely no attempt to explain how DMs are supposed to wrangle it when the PCs say, gimmee my dragon. In fact...

Funny and true. All I know is they just did a book that has like six pages about your exciting new career flying all over the place on a purple dragon and kicking ass, and dammit, I want that.

I figured that they needed to be Large dragons (assuming medium-sized riders) and that means young / CR 9, unless I wanted to fudge things a little.