Recent content by Sword of Spirit

Yes. There are some variations based on setting (pantheistic for some for example), but everything I do in D&D is very D&Dish, including the religion setup. I run the Planescape multiverse with elements from most editions included. 2e's On Hallowed Grounds goes over the various pantheons and how...

Demiplane is faster than 2 teleports. You could cast the spell, walk inside, active your buffs with the password (or whatever), walk back out, dismiss the spell, and be ready to go all in a single round. This wouldn't work in 2014, because you can't automatically dismiss any spell you cast with...

I'm highly intolerant of errors of any sort. I'm also very particular about things. If I had AI summarize a session for example, I'd have to spend time reviewing it carefully to make sure there are no errors. And there almost certainly would be. So if have to correct them. And then I wouldn't...

It's a bit of a risk, but not much since I can always say, "Whoops! Yeah that's not working out right is it?" ask for thoughts from the players and rework mechanics or abandon ideas if need be. Feats aren't hard for me to balance, especially given how much imbalance there already is in just PHB...

Getting to round up as a single class character versus down as a multiclass character is likely intentional. The point that it makes multi classing weird with certain combinations is a side effect that was likely considered a small trade off for favoring single class characters. Personally...

This I completely agree with.

I couldn't disagree more about VGtM and MToF. Volos is probably my favorite 5e product. But, after decades of internet debates across multiple games and editions, and becoming very familiar with extreme differences in preferences (such as strong opinions about 4e), I think having the complete...

I think he did a superb job of managing the design of the edition. He intentionally suppressed his own personal preferences to try to get at a shared D&D game essence that appealed to most people. (It doesn't work for the die hards of any previous edition, but it at least works for most fans of...

Swift actions in 3.5e felt to me more like what they were going for with bonus actions. Most people didn't even have them, and if you did have it available it wasn't every turn and you probably didn't have more than one or two ways to occasionally use it anyway. Granted, this was my experience...

Tangentially, one crazy thing that I've done with my 2014 house rules is to make some things that require a bonus action be able to use the same bonus action that you use for something else. I write those up with language like: "...requires a bonus action, but it can be the same bonus action...

A while ago I made a house rule that you may be able to take a bonus action in place of an action with DM approval. Yeah that's pretty wishy-washy for a "rule", but I think it will usually be perfectly fine--except for the rare occasion it isn't--so I didn't want it just to be allowed by default.

Great info. I would really like to get into a thorough discussion of all of this stuff, but I don't currently have the time. I want to drop a few bits of info at least though. WotC may have used different assumptions which appear contradictory to accomplish different things. Example: The CR...

Oh, no, no, no! That's not what's going on at all (clever guess from my scanty info though!) You probably already know this, but I'll briefly explain for anyone following. There are only 4 values that go into the equation that produces CR: HP, DPR, AC, and AB. That's it. There most definitely...