Recent content by Niafel

Right now I play twice a week from 9:30 to 12:30-1:00ish, which is later than I'd like, but I cope. (When it's not daylight savings, we're an hour earlier. Bliss.)

Ooh, yes to T. Kingfisher's paladins too! That would make an awesome setting.

I gasped out loud when I saw this. I reread the Paks trilogy every year or so; it's so good! (The Gird book was also good; alas, the other prequel was completely forgettable for me, and I never managed to really get into the sequel series....)

I don't remember any of my first characters because they were just names slapped on mechanics, with no back story or personality whatsoever. (Well, that's not entirely true--I remember Felix the halfling solely because he was a spoof of the blood-thirsty DM's DMNPC. The DM did not appreciate...

I really struggled to come up with four--my DM rolls a lot of skill checks, and literally everything has been useful at some point. But these are the three I settled on: Medicine has been used to diagnose issues, but that doesn't come up too often, and stabilization is rare--we mostly use...

Oh Lawd, I absolutely remember buying that issue with the Spirit of Night cover as a (female) high school student. It made me super uncomfortable, and I had to hide it from my parents.

THIS. And/or maybe a bit of Indiana Jones flair.

1. Tabaxi. Always the tabaxi. I'm playing one right now, in fact. (paladin of Sune) 2. I've always wanted to play a wemic but never had the chance to. Someday! 3. Gnolls. I played one in a long-ago campaign and had a good time with her. 4. Kobolds. I've just started playing a kobold ranger, and...

Hi! I'm on the verge of starting a new campaign, and I have a player who wants to play a half-elf bard with an alter self-like ability to assume both a human and an elven form. Obviously, a bard can eventually get alter self itself, but not at first level, and the spell has a time limit, which...