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Samwise Gamgee Heritage - Halfling Culture - Villager Background - Farmer Class - 4th-level Marshal Archetype - Lionheart Destiny - Devotion My thoughts: Samwise is all about building up others and protecting them, and a Lionheart Marshal seemed like a good way to create that effect. He will...

Thank you, Snarf! You are the hero we deserve or need or however the Batman quote goes!

As a long time lurker, semi-poster (14 years! Wow the time flies) I’ve been curious how the site rankings work… village to explorer to adventurer to hero to legend. Is it based on post count? Reaction score? Something else? And at what rank are people allowed custom signatures, or is that a...

For those saying it feels like it’s moving in a 4e direction, I can definitely understand your point of view, but as someone who really liked a lot from 4e I have to say the way they’re doing it is at best, half-baked and unlikely to make you or me very thrilled. For instance, take Weapon...

I’ve done a lot of mixing and matching with 5e and A5e in my own campaign, and I plan to incorporate some aspects from ToV, but I think it’s important to keep each character class, heritage/ancestry/species limited to their own source books. You can try a little blending (such as with...

Yes, again for me the new Monster Manual would have to be really compelling, especially since I now own Level Up’s Monster book, 5 Kobold Press monster books, the Monster Manual Expandeds, and Flee Mortals.

I have a lot of the same reasons many posters here have already said, but I think there are 2 main ones that stand out: 1- Wotc and Hasbro. I really haven’t liked much of what they’ve been putting out in content lately, it feels very “bland” to me. And the actions taken by the corporate...

That’s true - but I was thinking they were removing prof bonuses based on what I read earlier, to keep the ranges similar. If you keep prof bonuses, then yes you’d want to bump up the numbers.

For armors, if you want something more akin to traditional AC than tracking hits, you could assign AC values to the armors that override the wearer’s Dexterity score. For instance, Medium Armors might be AC 14-16, Heavy Armors 17-20, and shields can add +2 bonus. To keep Light Armor geared for...

I love the act of storytelling, and there is little as fulfilling to me as getting to tell a tale involving strange places, harrowing deeds, and epic heroics. I also love controlling fantastic monsters and role playing larger than life NPCs.

I seem to recall without the assistant program, Akbar was fully controlled by the PC and he was prone to just fireballing your whole party with his bad aim… unless I’m mis remembering.

My first non D&D game was Gamma World followed closely by TSR’s Marvel Super Heroes (and also the Indiana Jones rpg before it retired into it’s second life as the Diana Jones award). But my first non-TSR rpg was the wonderfully obscure James Bond RPG. By the end of the 80’s I’d played RIFTS...

Oh now this is the monster design for which I have been longing!

One thing I’ve learned from these play thrus is that the random encounters weren’t actually infinite, and that they affected other encounters! Always thought they were endless and did everything I could to avoid them!

Thank you for that long awaited explanation!

“I tell ya, laying waste to the Dalelands with Displacer Beasts is like herding cats!” The smaller AoE’s out of doors in 1e must have something to do with its wargame roots, but I’ve never heard the explanation. It would make more sense if the scales were different, but if I recall correctly...

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Hot monster vs monster action!

In my earlier post I also forgot to mention Rogue Modrons, another old Planescape staple. I actually had a player run one for a while, it was a lot of fun. I suspect they are too ‘non-humanoid’, which might be why we got autognomes instead; the current designers seem to shy away from PC species...

I was really surprised to see bariaur were not a playable species in the new Planescape set, I really liked the Shardminds, they were unique and interesting, but probably too tied into 4e lore to see a return. We have Tabaxi now, but we’ve never seen the dogfolk from Mystara show back up...