Recent content by Scruffy nerf herder

This week we're babysitting a very tender little guy named Albus Dumbledore and he's so light-footed you can't hear him walking up to you.

Yeah and he must have super high bonuses in all three of Int, Wis, Cha.

He simply does too many of the things that different classes do to not consider him either unique (i.e. Gandalf is the Gandalf class, or Maia is a racial class or something like that) or a high level character with a bunch of levels in multiple classes.

Well to be fair, it's reasonable to expect at least some middle ground in between "the players can pick whatever crazy thing they can think up" and "here I'm going to make this huge fantasy world with a bewildering variety of things in it, but you get the straight jacket of just 5 PHB options"...

It never ceases to amaze how little time it takes for people to start saying "well if you meant that part how I think you meant it then I'm not pleased", followed up by "no you misunderstand me", and "no sir it is you who misunderstands me". Please guys neither of you is trying to be mean or...

Seeing as you're asking so politely 🙂 of course I'll return the gesture and explain a little about what I do. Human and elf make good base templates for races. A few minor mechanical tweaks for flavor and some cosmetic changes and presto, you've got DM support for whatever wacky thing your...

You're not wrong, but I'd rather not make a habit of wording things too strongly and negatively especially when I'm already looking critical towards whomever I'm addressing myself. This isn't English Lit it's an internet forum, not everyone here even uses English as their first language so...

You really could have broken down a lot of it into reasonably accessible language. I'm all for enjoying the English language and lavishing our prose with expressive, flowery or technical vocabulary, but there's a time and a place for that and this is more of the time and place for clear...

Don't mind me over here just using the whole bestiary for race options..... Nothing to see here don't take pictures.

I think what he means in English is that when the player is given to understand by the DM that the DM has no intention to force things to go a certain way, during a particular social interaction, then things will be better somehow? At least that's what he appears to mean by things like "both...

Wait... Enough people genuinely care whether their fantasy character is attractive or not? My sister in law is playing a literal hag.

Oh it's not merely an LOTR concept. Tolkien blatantly says that the only people who could tell the difference between dwarf men and dwarf women were dwarves.

Not to say everyone has to follow Tolkien but it's a little funny to me people having any issue with female bearded dwarves. Tolkien didn't seem to have any problem saying "the females are indistinguishable by their hair, voices, and gait". Getting rid of this amusing and really weird aspect of...