Recent content by Kobold Avenger

I think there's more of Ars Magica in Vampire: The Masquerade and Mage: The Ascension than in D&D. After all that's where the Tremere and Order of Hermes came from.

I think they're about as (un)popular as Wildren that were also in 4e.

The weirdest thing I realized is that I lived most of my life in the Second Elizabethan Era.

Too many are complaining about a really detailed cosmology which the original Planescape Boxed Set never had. The original 2e Boxed Set's coverage of the rest of the multiverse was roughly equivalent to the material in the current DMG about the multiverse. 5e Planescape is definitely meant to...

It doesn't when applied to certain music genres, but ironically enough adding the -core suffix might cause whatever music genre it's describing to lose all meaning.

The most Victorian D&D settings are Ravenloft with certain domains and Planescape with specifically how Sigil is (such as The Cant which is heavily based on Cockney Rhyming Slang). But I wouldn't consider Ravenloft at least to be Steampunk, the Victorian domains are just "Gothic Horror"...

It might sound like a very bad idea on the surface, but given some of WotC's actions in the past, I wouldn't completely rule out that they weren't at least thinking that.

They outright said that default D&D is in the Renaissance at least. From the interview about the PHB, it was said to be the reason why there were firearms. And that's consistent since Plate Mail was invented around the same time Firearms were invented in the real world.

They might say "Use Orc stats for Muls" it would be lazy, but I don't think this time they haven't completely ruled out using as much as possible from the PHB.

I have ideas what sort of Paladins could exist in Dark Sun despite 2e Dark Sun having a ban on Paladins. In many ways I feel it comes down to "No Oath of Devotion Paladins" as 2e Paladins were pretty well just Oath of Devotion types. I feel that out of the PHB you can justify an Oath of Glory...

There's a perfectly fine class with a subclass an Athasian Bard, it's called the Rogue with the Assassin subclass. I think they really messed up trying to get the Bard to fit into that archetype back in 2e. The College of Whispers Bard doesn't in that it's a spellcaster, and they'd probably...

I bought some novel written by him that was a retelling of Peter Pan many years ago.

Other thoughts on Dark Sun, since it seems like they're going to release it in 2026... For defiling vs preserver mechanics, I think they should go by the assumption that casting arcane magic the standard way is the act of preserving. It's more or less how it happened in previous editions. I...

My input first on the subclasses, most of them pretty good except maybe some changes the Gladiator should get: -I like the Circle of Preservation Druid, it's quite powerful enough that some people are comparing it to the Twilight Cleric. In my opinion, it's not a Preserver per se, just a Druid...

From 1994: "Tieflings live with both pride and shame of who and what they are. They have no culture of their own, and most are loners, which fits their background. Some slip into the edges of human society, becoming poets and artists who describe the corrupt fringes of the respectable world...