Recent content by Yalım

Chameleon / Factotum would be great. Would love it as a rogue subclass. I also liked the old Hellfire Warlock. Burning yourself out for damage was so cool.

It has low-nonscaling HP, but it doesn't have the one-hit death rule of a minion. A few scenarios where they diverge at level 1 come to mind: Burning hands will fail to kill ~5% of the time on a failed save. On a successful one, it still kills around ~38% of the time. A mod-less attack like a...

Pepo, the Pumpkin Planet Pepo is a planetoid megaflora in the shape of a massive jack-o’-lantern, 5 miles in diamater. A massive flame at Pepo’s core grows and fades to mark the passage of the day, and the entire planet enjoys eternal tropical weather. But danger lurks below Pepo's surface. The...

Do jokes about D&D Discourse(tm) count as D&D memes?

Reading this gave me -1 Str, Con, and Dex. 🧓

I'm a big fan of Tomb of the Serpent Kings. It's designed in an intentional way to teach players lessons about old-school dungeons. It's also free! The one negative I'll mark for it is that early in the dungeon you are expected to "save to dodge", but a lot of old-school games don't have a...

Half an hour or so ago Anne posted an update on her blog: https://diyanddragons.blogspot.com/2024/01/an-update-on-jaquaysing.html Coinciding with a post from Justin's blog about the same thing...

More power to ya! It's an important element of the game for me & my players.

Oop sorry I missed this. Running content with a wide power delta is a PITA. I need to be aware of the power profile of the moon druid, ward new players off Berserker Barbs & Assassin Rogues, plan for owl familiar scouts, jack the power of enemies way up for the peace cleric, yadda yadda. With...

Sorry if it came across as passive-agressive. Certainly wasn't meant to! A lot of folks theorycraft whether a class is good or bad all the time. Sometimes I raise a concern about a bit of 3rd-party content or homebrew, I get told "that's not a problem you're white rooming", and then we play it...

It's a lot easier to have a battle of hypotheticals than to run the class. In theory a cohort is easy to kill, in theory there's more lockdown in T2, in theory the cohort & captain won't attack every round, in theory in theory in theory. I'd much rather hear experiences at the table than go down...