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This thread is for sci-fi—I’ll do fantasy movies separately. Superhero movies similarly. 5. Star Wars. It kicked off the biggest sci-fi...

The three or four options kindly mentioned by others above are viable choices, and they've made cogent arguments for each. You may have...

Soulknife or Swashbuckler IMO. A soulknife wizard hunter seems thematically cool. You get some skill check bonuses as well. Good for...

Go with assassin. 1. Wizards and sorcerers don't have great initiative-manipulation abilities, unlike 3.5. With high Dex and Alert...

Arcane Trickster is probably the obvious choice, with you being part of a rival wizard group that got slaughtered by this group and so...

One thing I wanted to add with V:tM's surge in popularity apart from Rice's fans/readership; this wave was transpiring everywhere. There...

Because character backstory or character development calls for it, darned whatever the mechanics say. A little while ago, I played a...

I always emphasize choosing a class and subclass that supports their concept before multiclassing. Or looking at other options , to the...

Most of my players do not multiclass, but the ones who do generally do it for conceptual reasons that are tied to their character's...

The answer is no, but also yes. Most of the time I think sticking with single class works best but sometimes adding a second class can...

IME there are three main reasons to multiclass: 1. Career change: for whatever reason your character decides to stop persuing the path...

All of that assumes of course that narrative intent is one of your groups goals, or the game's. If you don't see collaborative...

I enjoyed reading this perspective, although I felt at instances a little too much is made of the cage set up around combat in D&D...

Of late, I've been finding myself bored with the constant combat (and the level of detail) that seems to crop up in 5E. It's really...

This is Belonging Outside Belonging's (Dream Askew/Apart, Wanderhome, and so on) rule set. All your Moves and Strong Moves featured in a...