Recent content by Maxperson

I'm going to be really disappointed if any of the Great Old Ones end up being lord of Innsmouth. They're too powerful and inscrutable for that. Better to put one of the Marsh family in charge.

Just talk to your DM. The soul eating is just fluff, really. It would be easy to re-fluff it so that your baelnorn gets his lichly power some other way.

Yes and no. Most editions were in my opinion flawed and in need of house rules, so I house ruled the hell out of 1e, 2e, 3e and 5e. 4e's flaws(to me) were baked into the core and I couldn't house rule them out without re-writing the game, so I just didn't play it. See me and 4e. If the...

I notice that you keep cutting out that there was an average of 1 in 5 that the magic user would just plain die whenever he cast the spell, yet you keep saying that what you care about is the design of the game. Well, that's the design of the game and you are avoiding evaluating Wish regarding...

We don't live in a 1e or 2e world, either. The overwhelming majority of people who played those editions did it in the prior era where that playstyle WAS common and desired. Furthermore, most of those who play 1e and 2e today are grognards who still want to play that way, which is why they are...

So did I. The only things I voted yellow on were a few individual abilities I thought should be done a bit differently. I gave nothing red.

Most wizards never got to that level. Not because play stopped like @Lanefan was getting at, but because at level 1 they typically had 2.5 hit points and an AC of 10. They'd be knocked out if the PC in front of them stopped suddenly and they collided. Even if they did make it to 17th level...

Given WotC's recent history of using the UA to advertise stuff already set in stone, it's entirely possible that the most recent UA stuff will be in it. Death Knights and Liches are right at home in that place.

It's a Death KNIGHT, not a Death Tracker or Death Sneaky Guy. It's geared towards fighters and paladins, mainly paladins as @Paul Farquhar pointed out. As for the spells, Death Knights have always had spell like abilities and the path feats are designed emulate that.

I once forked and my opponent just scooped. :eek:

Maybe you just have things you still want to do and don't want to die. No need to think the world can't get by without you or that you're doing it for the greater good. ;) As for it being selfish, pretty much everything we do is selfish. We eat because we don't want to feel hunger pain. We...

This is America. We're lucky they aren't still using floppy disks. :p

Yes. I doubt the path we see is the only path to lichdom. It's probably not even the only evil path to lichdom.

They're dead and cannot access any funds. The heirs who now have all the power could access those funds, but I doubt that very many would. They now have the power and funds, so why give it back? And that's before getting into souls that do not want to or cannot return due to being trapped.

Not really. Souls can choose not to return and many would just stay in the afterlife. Especially good people who are the most likely to have people who want to bring them back. The upper planes are idyllic for them. On the lower planes, demons, devils, etc. trap souls or turn them into...