Recent content by Ondath

As much as I like Devin's work elsewhere, I also recall that he had formed his opinion mostly by looking at a legal podcast that weighed in on the issue in a way that was pointlessly aggressive towards Lin Codega, who broke the initial OGL story, and got many of their facts about how the OGL was...

I voted a 5. I've come to realise that 5e is more or less at the limit of complexity that I can bother with these days, and that I tend to prefer something a smidge less complex ideally.

I'm surprised nobody made a comparison between Half-Elves and Spock in the thread so far (though the gist of the idea was mentioned already on the first page I think): Much like how Spock is half-Vulcan and half-Human, and that allows him to still be relatable but sufficiently alien, half-elves...

Does accuracy really rise? When I look at some reconstructions of existing monster math (like Blog of Holding's Monster Manual on a card), it seems like monsters' AC increase is in almost perfect lockstep with PC's ability score and proficiency bonus increases. I don't have the exact...

What's the likelihood that Belkar is having a Sixth Sense moment and the Word of Blasphemy (or whatever the 3.5 spell is called) actually straight-up killed him because he's good now, but he just hasn't realised it? And that's why nobody seems to be reacting to his presence?

So is the idea that there should actually be 3-4 Medium difficulty encounters in an adventuring day, and the Oft-cited 6-8 encounters actually has the assumption that some of that 6-8 will be easier stuff? I think an interesting point of comparison might be Shadow of the Weird Wizard by Rob...

I've got a few questions for you two if that's alright: @Steady Vane and @tomedunn I've been trying to understand the game's key assumptions about how combats are supposed to go, and I'm wondering if you also found the answers on some of these assumptions. So from what I understand, we know...

Given its very quick character creation and the fact that each adventure is supposed to last around a session, I'd say it's actually a pretty good fit!

Ooh, I need to check those!

I checked, and I've played ~33 sessions of D&D in 2025 so far. Since my games usually run around 4 hours, I'm easily in the 60+ hours camp...

I'm currently running a homebrewed Level Up campaign, where I allow character features from O5E (such as spells that didn't get transferred to Level Up, O5E subclasses, etc.). I'm very interested in using Level Up Gateway as it starts moving towards a full release, but I wonder: Are there any...

While running today's Level Up game, my wife (who co-DMs with me on this game but plays an Aspirant cleric in my other campaign) realised that our player running an Aspirant cleric had much weaker abilities than she remembered. The current version of the archetype on a5e.tools says that Fighting...

One example of a dead game in my experience is Continuum: Roleplaying in the yet. It was an already niche game from the start, its one planned splatbook never got published as far as I know, and I never see the game being discussed.

They are, and we find out about this in She Hulk of all places! My wife and I recently re-watched the Daredevil relevant bits of She Hulk after liking Born Again so much and my goodness, it was bad. I'm very happy MCU realised their lighter take on Matt wouldn't work and returned to something...