Recent content by TheSword

Well to be honest the second you place the first price of armor to your body and until the last piece comes off you are wearing armor so I wouldn’t worry too much about it 😉

Yes and no. It depends what you’re using them for. But the essence is that a trap is meant to be interacted with. That’s the key thing. If the trap isn’t interacted with then it’s kinda pointless. 1 The trap has a tell and the PCs are capable of spotting it. This gives the PCs chance to use...

They’ve added extra reasons but let’s be very clear it isn’t genetically impossible. Draconic ancestor is one of the four examples given for why someone might be a draconic sorcerer. I’m all for mixing it up and not being prescriptive. Ironically now folks are trying to be prescriptive the...

Probably best not say what is or is not genetically impossible in an imaginary elf game. Stories are filled with shapechanged dragons siring children with dragon blood. 3e had whole prestige classes for growing up as a half dragon. Sorcerer would probably disagree with you too.

Well that’s a mechanics / edition / balance shift issue not a setting issue. Half dragons have dragon blood, Dragonborn have draconic blood. Dragonborn are just less powerful playable half dragons. Just like tieflings existed to be weaker playable versions of half-fiends. [I know Cambion’s and...

Loads of races in Forgotten Realms don’t have origin stories. Pretty sure I don’t know the origin story of gnomes but don’t really have a problem with that. I don’t understand why there can’t be many different origins stories for Dragonborn same was there are for Aasimar, tieflings etc. not...

Surely it’s obvious there are going to be some that don’t overlap. Why would you expect them all to. It’s a feat. But everyone of them has at least some that do overlap for folks that are pushing for 18 stat. Remember it’s not a given that players take the advanced background feat at 4th level...

I actually will be starting my sandbox Dalelands campaign the same way Blood of Elves starts… The PCs and five or six other travelers from different dales, classes, organizations and races swapping stories at a crossroads campsites. Sharing news of the dales from all directions. Possibly some...

Bladesinger still needs one hand free to cast Somantic components though right? Until they get Warcaster.

I would think most spells an Eldritch Onight would cast in combat don’t have Material Components. Or at least there are enough that the EL shouldn’t suffer.

Andrzej Sapkowski is a great writer and world builder. He created places, political structures, rules for magic, gods, temples, mythology, bestiary and a pretty extensive timeline. Sure it was expanded by the computer games but a huge amount is laid out in the novels.

Sure, not if they attack the same round. But they get magic instead. No sympathy. take Warcaster at 4 if it’s a problem. Nice little boost then.

They’re likely to get it anyway with War Caster a feat specially designed for spellcasters in combat. If you start giving feat abilities as class abilities all the time then what’s the point of the feat. Otherwise don’t use a shield as an eldritch knight.

I thought so. I’ve seen a few comments asking about Abeir elements of the FR and I just wondered why folks were expecting that to be a part of things going forward.

Have any of the newly released settings actually stuck?… Ravnica, Theros, Strixhaven etc. or did they sell for a few months and get Forgotten completely. For me, there’s no point releasing something flash in the pan. It feels like a setting designed to be specific to 5.5 is condemning itself to...