Recent content by Misanthrope Prime

The obvious answer is to summon a single swarm NPC that can get bigger over time. Start with a large swarm of skeletons and scale up to a gargantuan one to represent an army.

Yeah, the optimal way to do it is just say "Here is the Tattooed Monk spell list. Pick a number of spells equal to your proficiency bonus. The spells appear on your body in the form of evocative tattoos; the fireball spell may take the form of a red dragon, or alter self may be a werewolf mid-shift"

Rather than saying "you tattoo a rabbit on your body that lets you cast the jump spell", why not just say "You tattoo magical designs on your skin that constitute a spell", in the same way writing letters in a spellbook gives wizards spells. Like, ok, maybe your image of the tattooed monk is...

Ok so last time I checked on these guys they were neonazis who had "n-word" as a playable race with an intelligence modifier, but now they're talking about some sort of utopian future where white people don't exist? What in the name of MAR Barker is going on here?

The gulf in energy between De Armas and Petrisor is incredibly stark. Kenreck may not have been the secret sauce for this videos but I think they really need someone with media training because I got a "blink twice if WotC has a gun to your back" vibe from this one.

All art is a flawed reproduction of reality or truth, filtered through our fallible senses. Any emotion we feel when experiencing art comes from those imperfections, those differences, the noise introduced into the signal by human interaction. I don't know about you, but when I'm inspired, I'm...

Art is supposed to make you uncomfortable. If you want something to make you comfortable, that's called ergonomics.

The flavor of horror 5e D&D is most adapted to is Evil Dead 2 style comedy horror and I don't know why that tone doesn't have its own ravenloft domain. You could have someone like the crypt keeper, elvira or joe bob briggs be the darklord!

Scientology and Mormonism are canon in my Spelljammer game (along with other religions like Norse and Greek paganism) and so L. Ron Hubbard has appeared as a cybernetic lich-lord who was fed by the collective bad sci-fi writing of a million monkeys at a million typewriters, and some historical...

Haven't read it and haven't read good things about it, but I will say that the particular blend of races and classes in this book's adventuring party really reflects my experience with contemporary D&D, in a good way. Lots of players pick classes and races that are a bit contradictory (like...

Anyone can make a gun and they can be manufactured at scale. Depending on the edition not everyone can make a wand of magic missile, not can everyone use them or mass produce them. If it were possible to give every conscript, doughboy or private a wand of magic missile, surely a setting would...

For most of the middle ages, guns were not in use, but neither was full plate. Full plate armor was a response to the development of firearms. Any D&D setting without guns should logically also top out at breastplates and splint. If your idea of a "knight in shining armor" looks like this, that...

When I think "dark skinned person associated with gold and showing off wealth" I think of Mansa Musa's famous pilgrimage to Mecca in the 14th century. As Mansa went from Mali to Arabia he spent so much of his immense wealth that he inflated and devalued gold across the known world for a few decades

"It's days like these I curse the Chinese for inventing gunpowder"