Recent content by Paul Farquhar

Mental image of cartoon horses being reduced to charred skeletons, that collapse leaving the party sitting in mid air. But there are official rules that can be used for scaling mount hp - the warrior sidekick rules in Tasha’s.

You see the development of armor piercing designs for arrowheads during that period, no one would have bothered if traditional arrowheads had been effective!

I think one thing about Mando S3 is that it was trope subverting. At the end of S2 it looked like he was being King Arthured into a destiny of leading the Mandalorians. In S3 he dodges that destiny and Excalibur is destroyed, seemingly for good. And everyone says "good, now we can have a ruler...

It isn't full of self obsessed but impossibly good looking hormonal teens trying to have sex!

Sure, Lankhmar is the prototype generic fantasy city, and it's influence is all over the genre, including later AM. But AM was originally created as a setting for a direct, obvious and unsubtle parody of a Fafhad and Grey Mouser story. Which is one of the things about CoM - the stories targeted...

Sure, but they might like some different ones, and some different monsters. Or they may put backgrounds and species in with a subclasses book. I think the number of subclasses tested makes that kind of book very likely. Along with artificer and psion in a book that isn’t setting specific.

I had a player change their paladin from oath of the crown to oath of vengeance when the sudden but inevitable betrayal occurred. But it’s not something I would force on a player and it was a natural consequence of events in the game.

I can’t see post you are replying to, but one thing I learned as a teacher - if someone is not engaging, punishing them isn’t going to make the situation any better.

Multiclassing does not. In 5e an ex-paladin retains all their abilities. And a subclass respec replaces on set of powers with a different set.

No it doesn’t. It suggests multiclassing or subclass respecing, which are part of the rules, not removing powers, which are not. Bottom line, the DM has no powers to punish players, any more than the players are allowed to punish the DM. Everyone is equal, the DM is not judge, jury and...

1st edition for me.

More a case of they are going to be wrong for 75%* of players no matter how they do it. *Not that many really, there are a great many don't cares.

It uses spell slots, which means it can acquire spells that are not on the class list, so even if there aren't any, it still needs to be covered.

It seems like a very complicated way of going about things. If you can't do basic arithmetic then a pocket calculator can do it much more reliably than an LLM, for a tiny fraction of the energy consumption.

Laws of the world apply to everyone.