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I really like the 4E cosmology and when I make a setting, I often use concepts of it. I particularly like the Shadowfell and Feywild as mirror planes and prefer that over Ethreal Plane and the Plane of Shadows. I also prefer the Elemental Chaos over dedicated Elemental Planes (and...

Order-66 was basically a wide-band broadcast so it would reach everyone (especially every clone trooper anywhere, even behind enemy lines). Quite possible it was even send on all transmission channels that were otherwise forgotten - like the At-Attin channel. The timeline is unclear, but it...

The rules only give us very limited ways to gain class levels, so if it still requires going on adventures and either killing monsters or achieving quests, it might not be possible for an entire village to get that many high level PCs, because there just aren't that many "quests" around. (And...

I dunno, maybe when it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it really is just a selfish fallen Jedi Pirate? Not sure how many more episodes there will be - is it 8 total or more? But here are my predictions The supervisor isn't the former Pirate Captain. It's a computer...

But still a much worse chance then they do in the real world where you'd just be murdering some innocent frail old woman. And it's likely to cost them a few people.

One of the interesting things - even before given them multiple genders is that because in D&D, myth and fairy tales are kinda true, all these prejudices that existed in the real world that created those tales now are actually true things. However, the "mundane" and (usually by comparison...

Interesting. Wonder what the art will look like for a male nymph, if there is one.

Well, the profitable ones make huge profits. But then you get something like Concord, that had barely people playing it at launch, and cost hundreds of millions to make. This is kinda similar to Hollywood, if you think about it - making very expensive movies and some succeed wildly - and others...

Well, the newest trend is "advanced access" - spend more money to get the game up to a week earlier - when it's practically guaranteed the game will be the most buggiest. "As a little thanks to our play-testers, they are allowed to give us 20 $ and they even get a in-game hat for it!".

I guess this can be difficult. A guideline is - if the outcome is not in doubt, don't roll. But sometimes you only realize that it isn't really in doubt after you already rolled, because you didn't think of it immediately or realize that the players are just too skeptical of the situation or...

Warlock Seals As Warlock, your pact grants you magical powers you can apply to yourself or others to aid or protect them. Applying a seal requires a standard action. You can only have X seals active at a time. Many seals can be expended to gain a greater effect, some might even require doing so...

I think the previous episode didn't just point out the problems of the multiverse concept, but it also showed its advantages. If you think Star Trek primarily as a setting with developing characters and story arcs, the multiverse kinda makes all that pointless, because anything happens, good...

but is that true? Forging weapons has no specific skill in D&D 4 Realistically, forging weapons involves working with steel, using tools that require strength and dexterity. Sure, these mere abilities scores might not change over time, but whether you're a Wizard, Rogue or Fighter, you are...

One thing to consider. Just because Rangers are great survivors in the wilderness doesn't have to mean you need to devote a lot of its abilities on that. Just make sure that it has some nice features that no one else can get and require at least a modicum of investment, and the rest can be stuff...

Seals? Hmm. That reminds me of a Runethane (from the 3e era Arcana Evolved rules) 4Eified class I am working on. In developing it, I came up with different forms runes could take, most of them synonyms of course: Marks (which I renamed Signs because Marks are already a mechanic in 4E) for...

One of the strength of spellcasting is that you have a large list of powers to select one. So maybe the feature should also be designed to have several options, but themed differently than invocations? But of course that also means you need to come up with more abilities. I like the idea of...

That was a very enjoyable finale and overall a very good season. But it's a shame it's over! I am gonna miss these characters. They obviously put the seeds for two shows, one centered on Starbase 80 and one on the Cerritos with the cast now as "upper decks" characters, to to speak. Not sure...

That might be the biggest challenge, crafting new characters that we'll be as fond off as the ones we know from the past. That said, in Cyberpunk they pulled that off pretty well. The difference really is that more players have already expectations and favorites and might need some more...

The earliest rumors or hints about Witcher 4 suggested it might make Ciri the main character, but I have also heard that they might give us a self-made Witcher. However, if you look at the Witcher and Cyberpunk game by CD Projekt Red, it seems they prefer a reasonably well-defined protagonist...

Maybe muscular neutrality is motivated by the idea that we exist in a world where both evil and good exist, in the world, and each of us. If one side were to win, everything we knew about the world would be different. The universe might not need both good and evil, but it is a part of our...