Recent content by Kobold Stew

d6 -- the People's Die.

Simply not true, though you are right that is how many play. RAW (PHB p. 36) is that you choose a background from 2024 and your DM might offer additional options (including legacy options). Similarly, custom backgrounds as presented in the DMG are to be made in collaboration with the DM.

Ah, so your concern is with Potent Dragonmark, not the starting feats. That's possible. So with a two-feat investment, at level 4, a character can cast a single spell once per short rest of level 1 or 2, and by level 10 it becomes up to a single level 5 spell. Yes, it's effective. To return to...

This seems a really deeply felt response, and I find it surprising. Which Dragonmarks do you find more powerful than, say, Magic Initiate (Wizard)? Find Familiar, True Strike, and another wizard cantrip, cast with Int, Wis, or Cha, seems to me a high benchmark that (arguably) none of the...

Team Caves: what's up? Who wants to do what? There's an illusion up if we want to flee; there's an illusion up if we want to fight. We seem to be down a man already -- hopefully the rest are about?

Don't have a plan! But since we're not surprising them, it buys us 6-18 seconds or gives us cover we (you) can use for ranged attacks after 6 seconds. My thought was that the webs could move forward, closing them off each turn (the Image can move) which gives them a sense of some threat that is...

The skittering of a thousand spiders echoes in the chamber, and in seconds there are thick sticky webs filling the entrance into the chamber. Somewhere, a hyena howls. The webs appear to pull Merrick into them as they form, obscuring him. Bonus action: Minor illusion, for sound of skittering...

Scamp pads into the trophy room, sniffs the Dragon skull and shakes his head. Urgan enters, still uncertain about Valendra's instructions but willing to trust her. "Hmph. This is where the kobolds didn't want us to go. If her instructions were right..." he begins, not naming her, and trusting...

Posting a nudge for my fellow spelunkophiles. Team Caves, assemble!

Urgan nods at her, accepting her detailed directions. "Perhaps I'll see you in two days' time." He says, before turning to the others. "There's our route, if we want it." Urgan is ready to move to the Trophy vault.

Team Caves (moving things along) Urgan knows he will not be persuasive with this woman, but he sees no point in lingering further. She is recalcitrant, and properly shamed for her failure, but he is not one to gloat. He also notes the look of disgust on Merrick's face, and believes that it is...

One game that differentiates species in a meaningful way is Burning Wheel. Among other differences, there is a built-in difference in terms of a fundamental drive, the emotional attribute. Orcs have Hate, Elves have Grief, Dwarves have Greed, and humans (optionally) have Faith. It doesn't need...

Have we? We've seen two short out-of-context visions. I believe that they have left room for interesting storytelling that adds meaningful dimensions to the event. All need not be what it seems.

I think they have to show it. It's the defining event of who Pike is, and all his optimism and humanity that we see in SNW exist in an implicit contrast with what he becomes. Now, I'm fully aware that some trek series have had anticlimactic endings, but not paying this off would be up there with...

What is the source for that?