Recent content by Steven K

As I said, it is fairly absurd that the Transmuter does not have access to healing from level 2 onwards, if they want it, given they specialised in the arcane tradition that explicitly deals with modifying and recreating matter itself, even when said matter is organic and directly associated...

But, 5e Wizards do have healing. Specifically, Transmutation Wizards. Panacea, Restore Life, and Restore Youth are just things a level 14 Transmuter can do on a fairly regular basis. Working backwards, it seems absurd that the Transmuter Wizard does not have cure wounds on its spell list, given...

I have a problem with you calling her a trickster, as opposed to just someone tricky or shrewd, because that is a well-defined mythological figure of a type that she is most definitely not. But words aside, yeah, it's possible Rachel was involved in the deception as well. It's also possible she...

How many do you need? If it's just a handful of NPCs you could make a couple of different family blood lines associated with the Shadowfell in some way, have some secret society / organisation / clan / tribe / noble house aesthetics for all or each group.

That's how the new Level Up system works. You get your race (heritage), and there are certain choice points associated with that race at both level one and level ten.

Uh... really? You forget about the whole pretending to be Rachel on the night of her and Jacob's wedding. On the night thereof, catch my drift? As in, Jacob found out the morning after. Sure, daddy was the driving force, but I think she was pretty complicit in what went down. Jacob and Rachel...

No, it's a pretty clear distinction. Aslan straight up says to some of the kids, 'in your world I go by a different name, you must learn to know me there as well'. There is no way to take that allegorically.

No. And also yes. But Goliath and his ilk were not the Nephilim mentioned in the early chapters. He was just a big boy, and some of the other big boys had six fingers. Mutants, the lot of them, but still entirely human. Whereas nephilim were... something else. Something that got shift translated...

Well, depends on the judge, I guess, but it isn't really surprising. Samson had super strength and battle prowess, and Samuel was a true prophet (everything he said came to pass) with at least one miracle to his name (he made thunder while the sky was clear, once, to emphasise a point, not much...

Underpowered isn't the real issue. The main problem is that the Sorcerer is designed in a way that does not give full mechanical weight to the narrative it is supposed to convey, which is different bloodlines or mystical events directly shape the form of the character's magic. The other...

My fix was to gut the first three levels of the class, and rebuild it from the ground up. Lvl 1, You choose a sorcerous origin. That choice determines your spells known at lvl 1, and every level thereafter, unless you multiclass out. It also grants you additional features at certain levels as...

But nothing can kill GM creativity. You have complete control of your setting and which rules official or otherwise are allowed. Now look at the inverse. Homebrewing a monster just to make it more competitive isn't creativity, it's homework. There are better things a GM could be spending their...

As for literary examples, I'm pretty sure there were swordmages in the Wheel of Time series, and of course at the extreme end of the scale there's Gandalf. More important to your son's generation, anime like Naruto and Bleach just accept the idea of magically empowered martials as a given. In...

Well yes, that's true. Though 'scientifically accurate, but also there's magic' is a perfectly valid campaign setting. A little context: I literally finished the second of two Quora answers relating to relativity five minutes before I randomly stumbled across this thread, saw the words space...