Recent content by ProfessorDetective

Unarmed is always my fave... But twin scimitars are a VERY close second! Dex Paladin! Why did I not think of that!?

Draconic Sorcerer has no armor proficiencies out of the box, so the Charisma bonus is a major boon to durability. Dance Bard has light armor proficiency. But having at least a 16 in Charisma will see your UD beating Studded Leather in AC. And, since Charisma is their casting mod, they'll very...

One more week on Dam Nation and the creator put out one more pitch video:

Now, I am a major fan of Unarmored Defense builds, from the common Karlack and Beauregard clones to many homebrews like my old Eldritch Defense Invocation (requires Pact of the Blade, grants you UD using Charisma). Part of this is my laziness in wanting to avoid inventory management (to the...

Another book I just remembered and has similar vibes to Ravenloft is Cthulhu City for Trail of Cthulhu. This setting book centers on Great Arkham, a strange metropolis ruled by the likes of the Esoteric Order of Dagon and seemingly closed off from the wider world, if not time and space...

Also to mention, this isn't the only WotC-backed Mythos thing we've had recently. Chaosium themselves did a 5E book, just last year. https://marketplace.dndbeyond.com/category/DBIRFDZMU

For anyone curious about Dam Nation, here's the source material: The general vibe/theme is "Cozy Catastrophe".

Bards of the College of Dance have Unarmored Defense (10 + Dexterity + Charisma). Warlocks of the Celestial have Cleric spells and Lay-On-Hands in-all-but-name.

Oh, this one is pulling dirctly from the manga? Nice! Most adaptations tend to follow up the way-more-serious film from 1995. The manga was much more of a comedy. The upcoming anime from Science Saru is also directly adapting the manga. Hmm, I can see why this game is coming out THIS year...

Oh, I got another one. Going into Out of the Abyss with a Monk, a Sorcerer, a Druid of the Moon, a Bard of Dance, and a Barbarian with Unarmed Fighting Style. All casters happen to only know spells that avoid material components. "Oh, no! Those Drow slavers stripped us naked before chucking us...

All Bard or Warlock parties are also very strong. Both can cover all possible roles, from blaster, to healer, to tank, to face.

Rocking up to a Rime of the Frostmaiden game with a Silver Dragonborn, a White Dragonborn, a Goliath, and a Tiefling with the Infernal Constitution feat. One of them is a Druid, another is a Scout Rogue, a third is a Ranger with everything set to Arctic, and the Goliath is a Barbarian because...

Yeah, "digital-first, one-to-three-shots, that get curated into print anthologies later" feels like the most likely set-up for this. Maybe trying to take over Paizo's now-vacant "serialized campaigns" niche? Split the old-style books up for digital then recombind them again for print?

See also: Britbox, Acorn, Shudder, Crunchyroll, etc.

Yeah, that's how I compiled mine. https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells?filter-class=8&filter-search=&filter-verbal=&filter-somatic=&filter-material=t&filter-concentration=&filter-ritual=&filter-partnered-content=f&sort=level