Recent content by Ritorix

Good stuff. I do think you need to take another look at the Divine Soul. Divine Magic is insane, a sky-blue ability that is rated purple - not because of what it does, but because of the number of spells known that sorcs get. But what if every spell known you have is the highest-rated spell of...

I've had some success with a few of these feats. Toughness I took on a bear totem barbarian at level 12. It gave a nice boost of 24 HP, but was effectively twice as good thanks to rage resists. Those 24HP let him soak 48 damage, and that continued to scale. Leadership I took on a vhuman bard...

I like using a Background to show some character growth over time. Anyasa is the weird elven witch living alone on the outskirts of a human village. She might brew the peasants a 'love potion' or magically help mend their tools, but mostly keeps to herself. She's even got a black cat familiar...

Great guide, this matches what I've seen in play. I've played a dragonborn bladelock, and some details I've noticed: Whenever you gain a new warlock level you can retrain one invocation. Fiendish Vigor is a great candidate for that, as the 8 THP you gain (recast until maxed) is a huge buffer...

We don't have drowning rules yet, but in the final playtest it eventually set your HP to 0. A 'fish out of water' would just turn back into a giant.

5e combat is essentially rocket tag (fast combat that is over quickly), so that is completely normal. You do have to look at encounter math a bit. Blag is worth 5k XP. A trio of ambush drakes brings the total to 5300. Against a group of four 10th level characters, that is just a medium...

Dark Sun was originally 'War World', designed for 2e and not based on something earlier like all the other settings at the time. It was also designed to sell both Battlesystem and the Psionics Handbook.

They do have thri-kreen with "psionics" in the monster manual. But the psionics are just spells for now. Blur and things like that. You could run a DS game with that as the basic idea. No playable psionics, and if an npc should have some just assign them a few similar spells.

I already painted my Langdedrosa: https://twitter.com/ritorix/status/498263885653475329 He's a Reaper Bones 'dragonman'. And for kobolds, also Reaper: https://twitter.com/ritorix/status/416816482782171136 Not pre-painted, but I'm sharing anyway ;)

Looking through my MM, on the lizardfolk page and a few others it looks almost like a printing error. There is red and black text slightly overlapping that gives a fuzzy effect, like my glasses were off or something. Hard to read. Most pages look normal though. Anyone else with a MM notice that?

Haha, I guess that's one way to pay for Gencon. The MM's we got there for all-access were also signed by the dev team, a nice bonus. It is a gorgeous book, with a good array of monsters. Wish it had a listing of monsters by CR though.

It's been kinda funny watching as their site's review progresses. They have posted up parts 1 and 2 in addition to the "4.75 stars" art/layout review. And now they are finding problems with the layout...

Amazon shows my copy of HOTDQ landing on the 19th, which is the day after I return from Gencon so that will work out great.

Though now that I look at it, you might not be able to stack the Extra Attack ability just by taking 5th-level of a bunch of fighting classes. It's basically the same ability, so maybe if you already had it from Fighter you might not get it from Barbarian.

A barb5/fighter6 will do more DPS than a pure 11th-level character of either class, at the expense of the survival-oriented higher level abilities. You get the same Extra Attack progression as the fighter, advantage on the attacks, Action Surge gives 3 more attacks. You also get a fighting...