Recent content by Zansy

I'll just be bookmarking this article and keeping it for the next forever or so... It's very important historical context!

I've done more than my fair share of this and see no shame in it. I even had such private sessions between my character and the DM. Sometimes it's nice but it's important to know when to do it. As much as we want everyone to know all about all these amazing details we came up with, there are...

There was one time my character fell in love with an NPC. a big part of that involved my elf conjurer trying to prove he's as much of a man with the sword as the rogue and fighter. even with a magic sword as a handicap, he got his butt handed to him. the DM tried to explain to me, through that...

I think it fits in rather well in terms of the moral issues some people must face. The kind of people who might justify not doing "the good thing" because they must do "the lawful thing", which to them, is the right thing to do. They could be the kind to do the lawful thing because they were...

Even if it was unintentionally so, and even if you're not against the paladin being exclusively LG, I thank you for illustrating my point in my previous post, that I'm not the only one with controversy over how many different things a paladin must adhere to with full devotion. Having you Compare...

A sound, relatively objective observation. I would like to expand on that, as I think that the amount of different things a paladin must adhere to is also under controversy. For example, I think that the paladin adhering to his alignment, his deity's philosophies, his deity's anathema, and a...

Okay, first of all you are putting words in my mouth. What makes your super-narrow definition for paladin more valid than my more broadly applicable one? What makes you think all those "necessary tropes", which include among them being a stick in the mud, or "the party babysitter", are a...

The problem is not that people don't want to play paladins just because they're a niche market. paladins aren't as big a niche as you make them. If paladins were such a niche, as opposed to something iconic that a lot of people want to play, then why haven't hey just stuck with a "knight" or a...

On paper, If there was any room for interpretation for what LG is, and what their code of conduct should be. I might be able to tolerate it. if they gave out the code of conduct and stuck to just the anathemas and the other rules deities have (their name eludes me at the moment. I apologize--)...

and the worst part is that too many gaming tables, including (most likely) organized play, won't turn a blind eye to this sort of thing.

PF2 is repeating the same grudge I had with the paladins in PF1. I'm rather disappointed by the perceived inflexibility that paladins have in both PF1 and PF2. all that PF1 had to offer was "The paladin is LG flavor with different shapes of sprinkles on it." That's a very narrow vision for what...

Sorry if I'm a bit late for the party. It has been removed (along with a lot of other things) for reasons I don't know or understand. You can now find it on D&D Beyond under homebrew backgrounds, though, courtesy of the author. ;)

You guys seem to be forgetting that Scratchpad Publishing's DUSK CITY OUTLAWS is due roughly February 2018! I had the chance to run the game a two or three times with the prereleased rules (as in, during the KS campaign, but before the game's official launch), and it runs like a river. I...

I'm surprised the article didn't mention that the 3 core books are on sale for the week of the launch... that convinced me to buy them instantly with a master subscription.

I second the hoping for Dark Sun and Sigil stuff :3 I'd love to see it happen. Another thing I thought about, and this is grasping at straws, with the whole "Midway" as a WWII reference, is that there's always the possibility, however unlikely, that in one of these unearthed Arcana articles...