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This (or else something very similar) was during the playtest of D&D Next (the 5e playtest) which not everyone had switched over to for our encounters group and I was running a table that was doing 4e still and two tables were doing Next. So when we combined we not only had twenty people, but...

They are fun, the defining feature is definitely their jump. We hand waved the water dependency with some magic armour of moistness (started at level 10 so had a magic item budget). I was a little disappointed that the poisonous skin never really came up even though at level 10 nothing would...

So, what does the PHB say about improvised weapons: (Page 147-148 in my copy) 1) if an improvised weapon is similar to another weapon (chair leg=club) it can be treated as such (at DMs option can use prof bonus) 2)if it bears no resemblance to a weapon it deal 1d4 of appropriate damage. 3) If...

To clarify a point: Peter Pan doesn't kill Tinker Bell. He saves her life in the story after she drinks poison to save him by getting everyone to clap etc. its a whole thing. In the moment Peter cares for her. But Tinker Bell dies offscreen in between times Wendy visits neverland and Peter...

Does anyone else get a Plague Doctor vibe from the Way of Mercy monk? They wear masks, they heal, they gas...

I had an idea a while back for a Con-rogue (subclass named "Burglar" as a working title) that used Con synergizing with dexterity to represent patience and concentration. So skill bonuses out of combat when they had time to work slowly and in-combat bonuses to doing difficult tasks under...

the one that took people I played with the most time to learn was the "bonus action spells mean you can only cast cantrips if you want to use your action to cast a spell". It isn't that complex of a rule, but it was years before people got it right, and even now when they do it correctly they...

I saw it last night and while I didn't hate it and didn't love it (though I hated and loved bits and pieces of it), and I thought that was that, but now I'm noticing that I'm definitely moving through the 5-stages of grief with regards to it. I hit anger at 4:30am this morning waking myself up...

Nominating Thursday Knights Podcast (actual play) D&D 5e podcast It's a long running group (since the days of 4e D&D) just a bunch of friends that started broadcasting their game and have been doing it for a while.

I still use an iPod nano every day and I listen to RPG podcasts with it.

While we're criticizing the slaadi, does it bother anyone else that a race that is meant to be chaos made flesh is color coded in a strict hierarchy of power and ability? I understand having different types and such, but you can do that without making it so.....orderly....bleh.

In general they look very fun and powerful and for a self-contained, content control environment like a video game they are probably fine, and they look like terrific fun, but are quite likely going to over-shadow the stock subclasses thief, champion, healing domain, and whatever wizard has...

Are we critiquing them on how they would be at the table or how they would be in a video game? For a video game, I feel like there is a lot more acceptability in power discrepancy from standard subclasses, but if this is for a tabletop Solasta product then I'll keep in mind how it compares to...

Needing to rest to clear the failed death saves has the side effect of not only perhaps making the game harder, but also making it more boring. "Because this game is hard you need to spend more time doing literally nothing" is not a line of text many players want to see. I see what you're...

Any time a LA was significantly more than the starting Hit Dice, it was a bad investment regardless of anything extra the race brought with it. I've unfortunately only seen examples of not doing adjusting it, which lead to very weak characters, or stupidly strong characters that died to a...

It kind of undercuts the importance and secret-ness of a true name if a can be sucked out of your head by a level 2 wizard. Drakoth, Demon Lord: "I failed a DC 13 save, now the most secret aspect of my very nature and the one true path to ultimate power over me is known by a guy with 8 hp"...

1) Respect the bodies. A zombie with flesh falling off isn't going to be seemly in polite society. Polished bones with tasteful ornamentation. Zombies with cured flesh and holy symbols tattooed upon them. A mummy is only as acceptable as its wrappings are fashionable. Make them look nice...

Comic Relief: I had a goblin who was a janitor (under-janitor, it was out of the abyss) and the sole employee of a koa-toa janitorial service. His weapon of choice was a cage with a spider in it attached to the end of a rope and with DM's approval counted as a monk weapon ("Get'em Mr...

Camera is much improved. I had a repeat of the flaming hands just going off in the direction the mage was facing when I selected the spell from the list, but I also had it work properly. The failure nuked my cleric and lead to a TPK though :P Had a similar problem when I tried to use the...

It shows a lot of care and a decent amount of depth. Pretty easy to figure out and play. I like the combat layout of options, powers, stuff like that. They have a good system for seeing what actions you have and how to use them. The fights really felt spot on. It's alphaness shows in a...