Recent content by Quartz

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.

Matt Easton has just posted a video on pollaxes and one of the things he says is that they seem to break a lot. Languettes seem to be the main counter.

I heartily recommend Tod Cutler's Lockdown Longbow and Arrows Vs Armour videos, and those videos that feature Joe Gibbs. https://www.youtube.com/@tods_workshop

I can't seem to embed a YouTube short, so here's the URL: What’s the point of a tiny shield? The presenter briefly explains why shields are different sizes. And moots dual-wielding shields.

Because he is opposed by equally powerful people. I do suggest you read the setting; you'll get loads of ideas.

Isn't a Decanter of Endless Sand (or similar) the source of one of the deserts in the Forgotten Realms?

Lorgalis is a BBEG. Even the dragonlords fear him. Arguably only Shrek and Ondoval are more powerful.

That's the sort of thing that you'd schedule a million years for moving a planet. That sort of falls into the astronomical event category.

Keep them coming!

What interest? It used to be that you paid for someone to hold on to your money.

Some things in RPGs are often very long-lived. What sort of very-long-term plans and efforts might they have? At one end, in Shadow World, Lorgalis has a tower continually built up over thousands of years by the secretions of snails; at the other, in Dune, the Bene Gesserit (granted that that's...

In Iron Crown's Shadow World there's a BBEG, Lorgalis, whose tower is continually fortified by snails that crawl over the surface. Over thousands of years it's become impressively thick and tough.

The god(dess) of the moon in question might have something to say about it. Likewise solar deities.

Good point; I've edited the title.

Studded leather is a real thing, but for wrapping polearms, and not as armour. What uses would you give it in today's game? I'm thinking that it might give a bonus or even Advantage vs Disarm at the cost of extra expense. 5E doesn't have a Sunder option, but additional resilience there seems...