Recent content by Shrander

Yes, and loading the cleric with more powers and flexibility leads to balance issues. 2E's specialty priests could be laughably overpowered, and of course 3E brought CoDzilla. And in the end, no matter how many bells or whistles you load the cleric down with, it still ends up as "someone's...

This, absolutely. I do not give a tinker's damn what form magical healing takes. I'm more interested in how it works, and how dependent on it the party is expected to be.

All I know is, I'm not going to go back to any version of the rules where my only choices are having magical healing or spending weeks in bed. No more "somebody's gotta play the cleric." No more convenient cleric NPCs who follow the party around dispensing heals. No more Camelbaks full of...

The Jock was part of an April issue, as I recall, and pretty obviously intended as a joke. (Unlike, say, the Athlete class from the original XCrawl book, which was actually supposed to be playable.)

This doesn't pass the laugh test. Dragonlance was the first wave of the late-80s burst of creativity that gave us Planescape, Dark Sun, Al-Qadim, Birthright, Spelljammer, and Ravenloft. Plus the various "Complete" books that took the basic classes in new and unexplored directions. (And while...

I've just started playing this adventure but an issue came up during Brakken's trial. We've established, during the banquet near the end of Cauldron-Born, that Brakken can read people's surface thoughts and send psychic messages. He might not have been "listening" during the initial attack...