Recent content by Lord Twig

Yes, they can describe it however they want, the problem comes in when you try to explain, in fiction, why you can only do it with a scimitar in your hand that you never use. There are two ways to fix this. You can do like what you say and just let them do it without requiring the extra...

The issue goes all the way back to my original post. Improving Hunter's Mark for everyone does not improve the Ranger relative to everyone else. The current problem (one of them) is that Hunter's Mark is a primary feature of Ranger, and it is underwhelming. They added features that improved...

Maybe this will help... Warlock and familiar in a fight. The warlock, holding one scimitar, takes the attack action and orders his familiar to attack. The familiar can attack, but the Warlock cannot because he used the time he would spend on an attack ordering the familiar. Now hand the...

I've really enjoyed reading all of the responses. The original premise of this post was that it was a mistake to put the fix for the Ranger's Hunter’s Mark in the spell itself, and reading everyone else's house rules makes me think that most people agree, as almost all of the fixes are added as...

At first glance, and without doing any math, I honestly think this would make the Ranger the hands-down highest damage dealer in the game.

I think everyone is just assuming the Ranger is bad at level 11 and aren't doing the math. The Paladin gets +1d8 "on every attack". That is 2 for a great weapon fighter, which is almost universally agreed to be the biggest damage dealer. So that is an average of +9 damage if both hit, and it is...

If it was just increasing power (which I don't think is needed) sure. But the problem is that the goal was to improve the Ranger, not just increase the general power of everyone. My own house rules were to allow HM to be moved once when you take the Attack action at 13th level. Then...

Treantmonk has a new video series on fixing the 2024 Ranger which, to be clear, I am enjoying. I don't agree with a lot of the changes, but I respect the thought put into them and think that some of his suggestions are very good. His Hunter's Mark spell, however, is very bad. Here it is: You...

Number 3 is wrong. I use the Attack action. This satisfies the conditions of the swap: during this action, I can swap an attack. I make an attack with my Scimitar. This satisfies the conditions for the Light property -- I can make an attack with a bonus action with another Light weapon. Because...

Actually it looks like a minimum of $18 for all forty, but you should pay more if you can because it goes to the First Book charity. Can anyone speak to the quality of the books? Is there some good stuff in there? I'll admit I have only read the Azure Bonds trilogy, but it was pretty good from...

If it is just rarity of the classes you want you don't have to base that rarity on the roll of stats. You can use point buy and if the player wants to play a paladin they can roll a d20 and if they roll a 20, they can play a paladin. The same can be done for other classes. Done. That way you...

I am firmly in the point buy camp. Any time I have played in a game where we rolled stats everyone ended up with stats well above what point buy would give you. Even if someone rolled low, the rest of the group would insist "we take pity on them" and let them re-roll. This just causes the DM to...

Just to throw my 2cp in that no one asked for or cares about... ;) I thought The Way of the Drunken Master was a cool name, but it doesn't fit into the new Warrior of... format that they now have. They could have gone with Warrior of Drunkeness, but that honestly isn't any better than Warrior...

This one is from ChatGPT. I just copied over a room description (with a few minor edits) and below is what it came up with. Can you guess where it is from? :) ( The name of the room is in the image title if you want to look, but it isn't the name of the adventure it is from. This particular...