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Here's the five I'm doing. Note that most of them also have some scaling with level, but the recharge mechanic is there because allowing them to be used every single turn would be broken. Reckless Dweomer Shunran Cantrip Casting Time: 1 action Range: Special Components: V, S Duration: Special...

No, I'm mulling over using recharge as a way to balance five new cantrips. Players can choose to use them or not. It's not an attempt at nerfing since if they are markedly weaker than the standard cantrips they won't be used.

I'm not removing the existing cantrips.

Mechanical variety.

Well yeah, but that only goes so far. D&D is prone to 'alpha striking' - if the fight ends in 3 rounds the fact you may only be allowed to use the cantrip once might not matter. So I have a feeling the balance line will be treacherous.

So I'm toying around with the following idea - cantrips that don't scale with level but instead recharge like certain monster abilities. You get to use the cantrip, then on each following round you roll a d6 and on a 6 the cantrip is recovered for reuse. At 5th level the cantrip is recovered on...

Wotc has this nifty little tool online. https://www.wizards.com/dnd/fc/index.htm I've been using it and while helpful it does have its limitations. Looking at the underlying JavaScript it's pretty obvious the thing was written for IE 5+ support. I'm strongly considering modernizing that...

I have a personal policy of not debating with anyone who uses the terms "realism" or "realistic" in connection with any fantasy game. It's a fun ghost to chase sometimes, but it's utterly unattainable. I learned that a long time ago.

I'm not willing to read all 40 pages of this, but I figured I'd throw my 2 cents in. It has been my experience as a frequent cleric player that if the magic healing works quickly and baseline healing is slow, as in 1e/2e and to a lesser extent in 3e/3.5e/Pathfinder, the cleric player gets...

Skill challengers, poison tracks, and artifact purposes where the only things I liked out of 4e.

It's not that large of an issue. Local storage is primary, and the system silently copies whatever is in local storage back to the server when a save occurs if a connection is available. Another advantage I'd like to aim for - the app can run without a connection. Still, it's musings at this...

I'm starting to sketch out some ideas for an online tool set of my own for use with fantasy RPGs. I'm going to be focusing on details that computers can track that people cannot easily like randomized weather patterns, celestial movements and the like. I've been thinking on how I'd divide the...

I'm using this.

WotC always takes the last couple weeks of the year off so if we haven't heard anything before the 19th we probably won't hear anything until the new year.

I very rarely do monsters so I'm not as familiar with balancing them. I devised this monster because skeletal warhorses are CR 1/2 and skeletons are CR 1/4, so a mounted normal skeleton is CR 3/4, which is awkward. This is merely a skeleton with +2 STR, an extra hit die, shield, a better...

While that is true, we are talking about a system that is processed by humans, not computers. Therefore, you do not have to clearly label things - as long as you can use enough of the terms to form a core people will be able to use it. For example, advantage / disadvantage is copyrighted...

Last night I built a series of tables to compare the color assignments of spells against the spell allocations of the classes. I then moved several spells to a color such that their origin class could still use them. I'm still working on this but I can't move *all* the spells over because that...

Here's an interesting tidbit that came up on the mirror thread on GITP concerning why each color is named the way it is. Abora comes out of the word "Arbor" which is an old word for tree (think "Arbor Day"). Given the concerns of the alignment naming it for it's symbol shouldn't be surprising...

Alacrity updated. The former wording, affecting spells 3rd level or lower, was broken since as soon as you got 4th level spells you could start casting 3rd & under as bonus actions and 4th & up as regular actions, creating a 2 spell / turn casting situation that could rapidly get way out of...

Spoilers added to make the first two posts more navigable. I'm currently fleshing out the class options. The bard was easy enough - it only needed one new College. Clerics are turning out to be a pain in the neck. Seven domains won't go evenly into 5 alignments, and that's even if the...