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Team Caves -- URGAN I think Urgan had 2 THP, which means he's at HP 22, THP 0, but I might be mistaken. With the arrival of the cultists, Urgan is thinking that escape might be the best option. Perhaps the mercenaries could be used to... but thinking was never Urgan's problem. Doing was, and...

Team Caves: Urgan is not being especially helpful, and we're few on people, and they now have more. Here's a quick run through of some possibilities, in the order I'd prefer: 1. move back 10' or so, and keep the Mercs alive. They essentially form a barrier then for the cultists, and we can...

This is helpful, and sets a benchmark -- yes, a legendary item should be able to do this within the game, and it becomes horrific when it does.

I'm not going to repeat points I've already made for you. I have certainly learned what constitutes overblown rhetoric.

(emphasis mine) Based on this, you'd think I was talking exclusively about the flavour of the feat. I'm not, as we discussed upthread. My concern is with the implications I see in specific mechanics that have been proposed in what is at present only a UA. Yes, this is going to inform my...

I am not talking about BG3. Maybe we should stick to D&D and the UA, and not bring in a videogame. Here, there is no choice: with this feat, at level 4 (well before you are a lich, and you need not become one), any use of Soul Siphon creates damage to the humanoid opponent on a level that is...

Yes. No. Soul Coins do not destroy the soul, they trap it. Unless I am mistaken, the soul can be released with a level 3 spell (with no material component), or using the charges (e.g. asking it three questions). What is proposed here is completely new for 5th ed.

Except that's not what they are doing. They are saying this ability, available at fourth level (well before you actually become a lich), can only be stopped in certain ways, and those ways are extraordinarily inaccessible for a trivial benefit. If they implement it as is, they are telling...

Thank you, yes. "slivers of life essence" or whatever works is better than "soul". And I agree it is mainly flavour-text, but not entirely: the specific requirements for restoration being expensive and inaccessible magic creates a metaphysical world in the RAW that is, in my view, deeply...

The Path of the Lich in the latest UA provides an unparalleled power to players at level 4: through the Soul Siphon ability associated with the Lich Initiate feat, you have the ability to consume the soul of a humanoid. D&D doesn’t mess with souls much (I talk briefly about soul-language in...

Urgan shows no hesitation, ans he steps forward, stalking those within the scrying pool area. He is not stalling in any way. As the Beast continues to vomit up gold coins that are unseen by everyone else, Urgan wants to keep him completely incapacitated. He hopes that the discomfort and pain...

Good summary as always. Fun nostaligia. The Traveller Book is really solid, and more intuitive for people new to the game. If we don't hear about it as much, I suspect part of the reason is that it was overshadowed by its companion volume, The Traveller Adventure which is more of a "campaign"...

Scamp finds a bone, fragment on the ground, the remanant of an earlier kill. He wants to get his jaws aeound it, but his tongue instantly determineas that it is an old bone -- no flavour, no crunch.

Urgan knows there is no way they can get the amount of cash that the leader of this group is talking about, and that there is no way that they can take them all. In his mind, their hope of success, or at least escape, is to cripple Bardaby alone, and hope that his sudden collapse will be enough...

Urgan listens to Merrick, and even he is unsettled. He realizes how soft his life has been, spending his adulthood locked in a keep, working for another, and staying safe. He also sees to what degree he has been denying his own orcish heritage. He feels the anger burning within him, and is...