Recent content by Kobold Stew

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...

Who are we waiting on? Speak up if you've still to post. ; )

Urgan is disappointed that his illusions did not offer more protection for the group -- if everyone has now seen through them, there is no chance for them to flee. Uncertain what to do, he lashes out with his mind, and positions himself so that he can see Siobhan. He feels her mind with his...

I quote Butch Cassidy and The Princess Bride more than anything else, but the perfect film for me is The Philadelphia Story, with Katherine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart, and Cary Grant.

I think I disagree with the premise, that a single miss in combat creates a frozen narrative. If the state of play hasn't changed between the start and the end of the players' turn, that's on them -- they have the opportunity to move, and often they have bonus actions (which are a clunky...

A player can always create and religion or deity for their characters. Nothing I provide is unable to accommodate one more god somewhere in the cosmos.