Recent content by Sorinth

I wouldn't go as far as saying that of of toddler, but plenty of people don't really remember much at all from their childhood not even counting the toddler years. Adults who have a chronic lack of sleep also have plenty of memory problems.

I've never really liked this type this type of equivalency because if it takes an elf 80 years to mature mentally then nothing related to memory is going to have a human equivalency simply because if they could form memories like humans do, they wouldn't need 80 years to mature. Also since...

I guess smaller scale would be a the world's first and only airship. Have the eye set in the masthead and allow it to telekenesis ray. So instead of cannons or catapults or whatever as siege weapons, the eye rays picks up boulders or even a house, raises them up to flight level and then drops it.

Is this supposed to be a recent event? I think you might get more value from having this be something that happened at least several generations ago so that each eye would have time to change it's surroundings and the culture of those who hold an eye. Telekenesis Eye. This one isn't worn by...

I fail to see how you can claim one is ad hoc and the other isn't. In both rulesets the DM is determining everything about the check, from who can even make an attempt, to the difficulty, to the outcomes of success and failure. Everything you mention applies to both, you can compare PCs and...

This statement applies equally to skills in 5e, the DM rules on basically everything related to using a skill, from when you can use it, to how difficult it is, to what happens when you succeed/fail. The secondary skill table is basically your background where you explain to the DM why you...

There's a whole Non Weapon Proficiency section (Chapter 5 in my PHB), it has like 60+ proficiencies. For example one of them is Survival, and you can use it to find food/water much like the 5e Survival skill. In the 2e you would roll a d20 and needed to roll under your Intelligence score, the...

There were non-weapon proficiencies long before the Skills & powers book, if I remember correctly it was roll under the relevant ability score. But anyways the point is more that you can make ability scores mean less while it still being and feeling like D&D.

Having the six abilities scores is certainly a sacred cow for D&D, how impactful those abilities need to be for it to still be D&D is debatable. Before 3rd edition ability scores didn't tend to be all that impactful unless you had a high score, and since ASIs and the like didn't exist high...

It doesn't eat the spell, only the level 17 feature has a chance to eat the spell, and even then it's still a choice.

One "bigger" change I wouldn't mind seeing is to overhaul the way initiative is handled. There's too much variability, and often the turn order limits the tactical options. I'm not sure they should go all the way to freeform turns like say Daggerheart, but the d20 is just to variable, and the...

They provide an Unstoppable charge, and each Unstoppable charge reduces incoming damage to 1 and then gets removed. The minions are renewing the 12 charges every round, so basically if you don't deal with the minions the first you need to deal damage 12 times each and every round before you can...

My solution for this would be to limit the highest level spells to your specialization. So only the Evoker could get Fireball at level 5, but a non-evoker could still get it at 7. But this requires the schools to actually be balanced. I'd probably also want the subclasses to reward casting from...

So you don't think the Orin the Red fight in BG3 is a boss battle? That seems to me like an absurd take.

Those are just what they did in previous versions of D&D. Whether you like it or not is irrelevant to the point, the point is there's plenty of things they could do that isn't the 5e version of multiclassing.