Recent content by VenerableBede

Hi. I wrote the archetype. Short answer: @Sepulchre is right. As-worded, delivering your spells through your fists limits potential targets rather than expands as worded, as published. The version I allow at my table allows you to deliver spells with a target of Self to other creatures, though...

Thanks!

It ended up way more work than I had predicted! If I hadn’t gone the caster route I’d have cut the amount of stuff to do by more than half… But this class needed totally new spells, cribbing off the Wizard spell mishap table wouldn’t really work, the existing golems in the core rulebook were way...

Shadowdark doesn't have a pet class, and I really like pet classes, so I decided to try my hand at something. If you have any interest in checking it out and giving me feedback, positive or negative, see the attached document below! Pillars of Design: Jump off from the mount rules to create...

I’ll have to add it to my reading list.

Well, I’m slightly disappointed in that I was excited to finally have a pet class, but I’m still confident that Kelsey will make something excellent. And, as a forever-GM, I wouldn’t have ended up playing it anyway :P

I’m not able to watch the live stream now… What’s it look like? What features are we getting? @Whizbang Dustyboots is making me nervous… Not that I don’t believe in Kelsey’s ability to make an excellent class regardless of the direction she goes, but I was really hoping for a class with an...

Title had always felt superfluous to me. I’m not sure what it actually drives in-game. Even Background technically has mechanical effects—for reasonable checks connected to your background, you should be granted automatic success. It appears reputation is going to replace whatever the intent...

I would love something like that!

This is true, but if we’re specifically going a “Berserker” route, I don’t think we can avoid having at least a feature that is rage-like. There’s plenty of room to make it more interesting than just boosting attacks, of course.

Something I like about Shadowdark is how... specific(?) many of the newly announced classes are. Yeah, you've got eternal, broad archetypes in the game, like Fighter and Wizard and Bard, but Basilisk Warrior? That feels pretty uniquely Shadowdark. Camel Rider? All right, other games have mounted...

I was very surprised that there wasn't a level 1 Druid spell that did exactly that. True, not all sources for druid inspiration have them turning into animals, but it's still extremely iconic... At least there's a spell that turns you into a tree. And Polymorph. But those come kinda late...

This is what made me not vote Alchemist or Psion. While I'd be extremely excited for either, if the Alchemist potion system (or psionic abilities) were mechanically identical to the way spells work for everyone else... well, at that point I'd rather just reflavor wizard. I voted Necromancer in...

I will admit, I was pretty hyped when I saw that as an option. Even though it's not really what I'm looking for, it's a step in that direction—although my excitement tempered as I realized how limited this feature really is. I wish there was an option to "age up" the pet basilisk, make it...

If it were possible for Shadowdark to have a class that's focused around a minion—whether that be a martial "beast master" or a spellcaster "summoner"—I'm always interested in seeing how systems can handle that archetype. Pet masters and puppet masters are some of my favorite concepts, and while...