Recent content by SkidAce

I'd snap up Griffon's Saddlbag book one instantly.

Thats not what they said...will try to find citation...

Truth. I have said since 5e came out that its a great balance between old school and modern concepts.

Agreed. Encounter building has been an artform in D&D from the begining.

Simple Caster, nothing but cantrips, number known equal to prof, swap one on level up.

They did not. The cleric's response was "Better safe than sorry"

We still like the adventuring day. Narrative dictated boss fight, then they ran into a boss fight by trying to take a short cut out of mountain in a direction they hadn't explored. Another time the cleric cast their most powerful spell (cloudkill) on two CR 1 guards, guarding an entrance...

How would they know how long my encounter days go? (Honest Question) Sure, they can see the level of characters played on Beyond but...

Not too much of a tangent, but this thread made me thing about teaching the basics to noobs. A fighter with weapon attacks and cantrips, no spells like eldritch knight. Should get most of the basics across pretty quickly...

@Tigris My apologies, I had not seen Umbran's note.

Wow. (1st paragraph) "a lot of people" citation? you realize that as games were published they were "modern design" at the time, and we understood them? (and played them) (2nd paragraph) "I'm not dead yet" Funny story about "MtG" being "modern". I played MtG since Beta and Antiquities...

I didnt think they took the friendly spell, just used its residual energy for the ability? Edit: didnt mean to dogpile you...

Kibblestasty has some great elemental spells.

This is the kinda thought I like talking about at ENworld. I mean you are 100% correct. If you look at it that way. Re: Elementalist Wiz Subclasses or (Witch): Where do you (generic or specific up to you) want the emphasis? I could say...I want my wizards to be similar (same chassis) to...

Great entire post, snipped for what I think is a key point.