Recent content by Winterthorn

Just to point out something that always bothered me: there are no bodybuilders winning olympic swimming competitions - no swimming medalist packs on muscularity like Arnold S. (aka Conan) - it was always a mistake to attribute the skill of swimming to strength and, considering the intense...

I have often thought to replace Intelligence with Memory. Alternatively one could use Learning or Education. Education sounds a little too modern though (btw Traveller, almost as old as D&D, has 6 stats of which Education was used to good effect in that system), so I would go with the more...

Dominaria. It is MTG's oldest plane/setting/world and contains the richest collection of MTG lore, so there is a lot of material to work with and nit together into a product.

Wand of Sleep! LOL! I initially read Wand of Sheep! Imagine: cluttering caves, corridors, paths, roads and bridges with hoards of summoned sheep to foil the movement of foes! 🙃 j/k :)

Agreed! That has bothered me for a long time. When I started playing D&D in the 1980s, I also was toying with Traveller. That experience informed me right away there were different ways to define a character's abilities. Having subsquently also played GURPS, and a vareity of other game...

I don't know, given there is some confusion going on I wonder if it would make more sense to interpret Tasha as actually being Iggwilv's daughter? Perhaps neutral Tasha sometimes masquerades as her evil mother because she enjoys trickery more than doing evil? (Mother vs daughter tension?)...

I like the the newest versions of Firbolg as well. In fact, as I still like to use the old term 'demi-human'* as a classification category for dwarves, elves, gnomes and halflings, I added firbolgs to the list. It feels like a good fit IMHO. (*In my homebrew camapaign world(s) demi-humans are...

Oh just balance things out... Dwarven women can always grow beards if they want (lovely fine, soft, curly, braided, bejeweled ones), and elven men can never grow beards (not even one single folicle). ;) :)

I have given this much thought over the last few years; I am of mind to recommend the following: 1) Absolutely no race-class limits in the core rules. Keep things officially optimally free. 2) In some, not all, official and third party campaign settings have some limits fitting the theme of...

I would have preferred there was Limited Wish, Wish, and Greater Wish, and tempered their power with clear wording so they fit comfortably in the game. I am writing up a Witch class for 5E - not finished yet, sorry - and its capstone at 20th is called Wishcraft, where the Witch knows Wish and...

Mystara! This setting, of which there is a wealth of old supporting material such as those inspiring gazetteers, is crying for a revisit! New settings: Terry Brooks' Shannara? C.S.Lewis' Narnia? David Eddings' world of The Belgariad/Mallorean? And I am sure there are other more recent...

Now we need to add Murder Hornets in MM 2!

Feeling old at 57, but still young at heart! Started in the early 1980s with BECMI - and still own my early collection :D

I would like to see 10th level spells for casters of levels 19 and 20. Wish at 9th level RAW only safe to use if you want to emulate an 8th level spell or weaker - any other effect is subject to the DM whims in terms of consequences. So in theory a totally risk free Wish spell would have to be...

In the days of third edition I ran a 3 year campaign in Kenzer & Co's Kingdoms of Kalamar. A great campaign setting indeed IMHO. It handled deities as follows: No personal name for a given god, e.g. Knight of the Gods (LG), The Peacemaker (NG), Raconteur (CG). A different name for the same god...