Recent content by NotAYakk

I might be tempted to start with rubber meets road and work out how power sources interact after that. What do I want class X to feel like, regardless of its lore? How do I want Warlocks to feel? That should tie to their power source. And what are the Fey? The...

How about replacing Legendary Resists with "Get +X bonus to a save in exchange for a level of exhaustion" (which is now -1 on all d20 checks). This is a real cost. Second, add "on a successful save" effects on spells, even if it is only damage. Level 1-2: 2-5 damage on a successful save Level...

This is something I'm playing with to discourage alpha striking: Extended Casting: Starting at level 5, when a Wizard casts a spell that requires a bonus action or an action to cast on their turn, they can choose to extend the casting. The spell does not go off until their next turn when they...

My favorite mechanic is that people in the world have figured out ways to make potion injectors; one on each arm. These let you "drink" a potion as a bonus action. But only 2, and reloading each of them is an action. This makes expensive potions well worth considering, spamming cheap potions...

So my heartbreaker mod for D&D tries to understand and accept this. 1. PC damage grows super-linearly. Weapons deal 2[W] at level 5, 3[W] at level 11 and 4[W] at level 17. 2. Monster HP scales with the above super-linear PC HP. Monster damage scales with PC durability. A level L monster...

Marvel uses comic books to provide decent content for its movies and shows. Here, we see TTRPG providing content for video games.

So, I dislike Hunter's Prey. Colossus Slayer is an ability that is ok at level 3, but quickly falls off to irrelevancy. Tracking that 1d8 remains the same work at every level, yet becomes less and less important. Horder Breaker is a "DM may I"; having foes be within 5' is almost always a...

So with 1d6 HD and 19 con, you have (4+4)+(3.5+4) = 15.5 HP/day. Add +1 con and you gain +2 HP/day/HD (each +1 on average gives +1 HP/day/HD, but parity gives you an advantage). Add Durable (+1 con, min roll 10) and you have (4+5)+(10+5)=24 HP, or 8.5 HP/day/HD. The non-+1 con part gives 6.5...

I mean, after you run out of attributes, maybe you add +0? Or maybe ... you loop around! Looping around isn't bad. The 6th hit is the most constrained, which is a bit artificial. An alternative is to get rid of the "once per turn" rule and roll 1d6 to find out which attribute can be used to...

I'm not sure why people are ruling it insanely conservatively. It is a half feat, and as written not that strong. The die you roll (the d10) gets a min roll of (Con bonus*2). You usually then add your Con. So a fighter with 16 con (+3) has a min roll of 3*2 (6), so heals 9 to 13 HP (usually...

Sure; but by tying it to an actual narrative construct (a skill or an attribute) where the defender has to describe how the skill prevents the deadly blow, I think it can help? Limiting reuse is ideal, but doing so without making it overly costly is hard. Hmm: Letting you choose the attribute...

I've tried to swap HP out with "why didn't I die points". As an example, take D&D and replace HP with HD. Whenever you take damage, you roll your HD until it beats the damage. Maybe you have to attach an attribute to the roll (why you didn't die), with some limit on how often you can use a...

Command: Flee, as Command cannot cause something that is directly harmful, should permit disengage and even picking a tactically advantageous way to run away. Dissonant Whispers explicitly does not allow this.

What? That ability is crazy. In a multi-creature fight, for an action you get to remove a creature from the fight. You are now only using concentration to turn a N opponent fight into an N-1 opponent fight, followed by a 1 opponent fight. It is basically banish as a 1st level spell. Maybe I...

Tattoed Monk, IMHO, should have some tattooed-as-magic-item or infusion abilities. Level 3 is very meh Utility spells which are great, and a nearly zero combat ability. The high jump bit? That very rarely shows up in play. I'm guessing it used to be the jump spell? 6 is pure utility. 11...