Recent content by MarkB

Yeah, if anything it's turn-of-the-twentieth-century Europe rather than medieval Europe.

Hyperdimensional dungeons need gelatinous hypercubes patrolling their corridors.

I think a lot of it could just go back to the Clone Wars, though. The CIS's heavy use of droids combined with their brutality almost certainly created a general level of antipathy towards their use in such roles, no doubt encouraged by the Emperor since droid production on those levels would be...

Can anyone in the Star Wars universe? Not much difference between Palpatine influencing the Senate through Dark Side influence and propaganda and him reprogramming them. And what about cyborgs like Lobot, do they lose all rights as soon as they get a piece of hardware integrated with their brains?

If the t-rexes the OP is intending to transform his party into still count as friendly, then yes.

Picking up a hostile creature requires, at the very least, an attack action to grapple. And which teleportation spell are you using to take an unwilling creature with you?

That's becoming a lot of actions to maintain a purely temporary debuff of a group of enemies.

Is that a confection or a crime scene?

Whales aren't fish, so they don't need to hold their breath. I think it was more the trout example that was being called out.

Killer whale? Nasty attack, but only 5 ft walking speed and 90 hp. Alternatively, throw in a bag of rats and cast it on them to turn them into T-Rexes, then wait while they fight it out with the bad guys and go in afterwards.

Just a shame that it somehow managed to fall victim to the "all dwarves are the same" trope. Even between the Aurum, the dragonmarked house and the subterranean lost civilisation, there's still little to distinguish them from dwarves of other settings, a rare miss for this setting.

It's dragons all the way down. :)

Eberron's unique planar cosmology also appeals to me. I like the idea that it's not assumed to be part of a wider multiverse, and having the planes "orbit" the material plane in such a way that their effects can be more keenly felt upon the world at certain times opens up new possibilities for...

It sounds a bit unwieldy to me. Would you still require both rolls to hit to trigger sneak attack damage on a critical hit?

That's another thing I really like about the setting, it has a sense of progress. Many established settings have been in medieval stasis for centuries, and there's a sense that the most powerful magics are those of a lost age, but in Eberron there's a sense of forward progression, and great and...