Recent content by Quartz

I'm late to the game but I hope I can still play. Competition is not the way to go; cooperation is. The campaign is Oerth's Celestial Imperium. Playable races are Dragonborn, Lizardmen, Kobolds, and Tortles, with lizardmen as the norm. Humans etc are monsters. Base classes are Barbarian...

I've recently been bingeing on The Archive In Between videos on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/@thearchiveinbetween/featured It's a multidimensional setup based around an interplanar metropolis, the Patchwork City, with some based on Earth. It seems to be hugely useful for monsters...

The irony is that a year or so after TSR UK stopped producing Imagine, White Dwarf went house-only so stopped covering D&D. Paul Cockburn & a few others tried to revive the UK D&D magazine with GameMaster Publications but that only lasted 5 issues. Do be aware that one or two of the covers are...

Paladin hits its stride at Tier 3 when you get to add bonus radiant damage.

Does anyone else remember the story of Sean Bean when filming LOTR refusing to take the helicopter and hiking up some mountain in full Boromir attire?

A sensible adventurer would have both spear and sword, surely?

A group walked up a hill, in and around various foliage with various swords, from a Viking sword to a montante to a katana. Educational and instructive. The easiest swords were the smaller ones and the katana because they could be left alone, and, curiously, the montante because the wielder...

And that folks, is how long-term enemies - the ones players love to hate - are made.

A key maxim is that you only roll when the result is in doubt. I gave this a lot of thought when trying to square how those fighters with modest mental stats became kings.

You guys are being insufficiently sneaky with Fireball, especially on the DM side. Consider the healing effect on an Iron Golem. Consider the BBEG using a fireball in a room to burn carpets and wall fabrics to uncover Glyphs of Warding or Symbols or both.

There's a YouTube video, The Knight of Hope, which argues otherwise.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. He demonstrates with visual examples. He even suggests improvements or alternatives like letting a whip trip people. But the thing's an hour long so I can't really summarise safe to say it is worth your time.

This is an hour-long video by a HEMA practitioner far too complex to summarise. Some very interesting comments and analysis about reach, throwing, martial vs simple, and much, much more.

Look up Scottish legends of mermaids: they can take human form but have a shawl or skirt which allows them to turn back into mermaids. If the garment is stolen then she is stuck in human form. A possible plot bunny for you.

How does the canonical spear and shield build fare? In 2014 5E it was good because you could use Duellist for bonus damage and PAM to get the butt strike of the spear as a Bonus Action.