Recent content by MarkB

The original 3.5e Eberron had the concept of "wandslingers", low-level magic adepts armed with mass-produced wands, serving the same purpose as riflemen in a real-world army. These days you could achieve much the same effect with a bunch of NPCs with the Magic Initiate feat.

I think I'll stick to diced vegetables.

Green Lantern: The Animated Series from 2011 was short-lived but I remember enjoying it at the time.

Yeah, hard to imagine a villain being countered using giant oven mitts in this one.

Yeah, where I'm at is that this looks like a potentially excellent gritty drama about small-town corruption and unconventional heroes, that would work much better without them being Green Lanterns.

One big thing that can make these effects less anti-PC is if they are also anti other creatures in the same environment. Have a chart of debilitating effects similar to those the PCs may be afflicted with, then have the monsters in an encounter be afflicted with, say, 1d4 of them chosen at...

If you want the players to recognise it as a threat beyond them, you pretty much have to go with either a familiar monster or something so huge that it gets the point across. The ancient dragon turtle from Fizban's does the latter very well.

It just seems so very situational as-is. Spending more than one death save to gain hit points seems suicidal as it can readily result in a situation where the character will die before any intervention is possible if they go down, but on the other hand gaining a single hit die's healing while...

I've finished Ghost of Yotei. Good, but not as epic or as emotionally satisfying as Ghost of Tsushima. Some of the story beats felt very forced. Also, there's something about going from the adrenaline rush of the game's close combat straight into the enforced passivity of an extended cutscene...

For my genie-patron air genasi warlock (backstory is he used to be human but after doing the Aladdin thing of freeing a genie with his last wish he's been cursed to replace him and is slowly transforming into a genie) all of his spells tend to be manifestations of violet smoke or light. His...

Just have the Trek come to the heroes. Trek does time travel all the time. Star Trek: The Heroic Voyage. The Enterprise crew, facing potential global catastrophe at the hands of a cetacean probe, are forced to try a radical solution: Travel back to the early 21st century to bring back Aquaman...

I voted for Men at Arms. Guards! Guards! establishes the City Watch series, but Men at Arms is where the wider cast of characters comes together.