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Makes sense. The wand charges question was actually a very poorly worded attempt at clarifying this bit of the item creation process, from the DMG: "If a spell will be produced by the item being created, the creator must expend one spell slot of the spell's level for each day of the creation...

Love this. A couple questions: - do Artificers count as spellcasters for purposes of conventional magic item creation? If so, they could either craft one of their up to 20 item schematic items using the rules of their Exquisite Crafter feature, or craft anither using the standard DMG rules...

Assuming there are new rules (which seems likely even if they don't do psionics), they'll probably do another freebie Player's Companion PDF like they did for Elemental Evil. Last one came out about a month before the adventure, so I guess we'll know come August.

I am in love with the idea of this storyline — the Underdark! Demons! — but mostly because, from a crunch point of view, the most obvious thing to add would be psionics. There are just too many psionics-wielding Underdark creepies (Illithids, aboleths, intellect devourers, quaggoths, duergar...

If nothing else, it's worth mentioning because Wal-Mart has a very troubled past when it comes to carrying geek products. Once upon a time, they refused to carry Spawn action figures because they were demonic. So it could be seen as encouraging in that it means they've grown up a bit in the...

If nothing else, it's worth mentioning because Wal-Mart has a very troubled past when it comes to carrying geek products. Once upon a time, they refused to carry Spawn action figures because they were demonic. So it could be seen as encouraging in that it means they've grown up a bit in the...

I've been using the 3.5 version for a long time now and love it. My group finally started playing 5e last week and the 5e version is even better. The lack of an OGL hurts them a bit — setup is slow when you have to enter most of the race, class, and background features and spells manually — but...

They replied to a comment on Facebook and basically said that whatever this ends up being, it won't support WOTC products, at least at launch:"From what we know, we will be unable to provide support for WotC products in Codename: Morningstar as it stands now." That's kind of all I wanted to...

One thing I have to say I do like about the passive perception: it makes traps a whole lot less of The Rogue Show all the time. If your party's rogue has crap Perception, the keen-eyed Elven cleric with the high wisdom can helpfully point them out, even if he doesn't know anything about...

I think the idea is that, if you're relying on passive perception, you auto succeed or auto fail, but a character actively searching for the traps has a chance to roll better than a 10 and thus beat their passive result. So there's value to both using the skill passively (it sets a bottom...

I mean, I'm willing to play amateur cryptographer, but if the answer at the end is "so we're reworking the whole thing for Savage Worlds", I'd really rather know that now so I can disengage. I like the company and I liked the way the beta was headed, but if it's not for 5e or 3.5, it's not for...

Ditto. At this point, we know that it's probably software and probably related to one or more role-playing games. That's about it. That's an awful lot to take on faith. I'm willing to hang in there for now, but… definitely disappointing.

It would seem more sensible if they hadn't hyped it as a big announcement. They already told us they had plans. This contains zero new information apart from the name change. So maybe they should have just announced the name change and not made such a production out of it? I dunno, definitely...

I am their biggest cheerleader, but that's just weird and unhelpful. I don't want to go on a magical, mystical journey with them — I want to know if they're going to release a product I give a damn about. It would have been hard for them to write a post with less actual information in it if they...

I kind of feel that way about the domains we have so far in general. The problem is that you have all of these established, nuanced pantheons, and then you try to pin them all down to seven or eight domains and just end up with a bunch of really poor fits. Obviously they couldn't do the whole...

I think the idea is that 1) you're subverting the natural order of things by interfering with the cycle of life (though the same can be said of healing magic, and especially resurrection, of course) and 2) those undead minions used to be people, and dragging them from their eternal reward so...

Yeah, IIRC, there was a "Repose" domain somewhere in 3.X that was more of a non-necro uncreepy death domain, more focused on psychopompy and reincarnation/resurrection type stuff than dragging hoards of undead Thralls out of the ground.

I tend to agree. I'd rather see them get a full work-up than be squeezed in as an example of how to make a race or something. If they're in that section, I fear they might not get much more than a sidebar. That said, as of June Mike Mearls said they were scheduled for inclusion in the DMG. :/...

I may be completely losing my mind here, but wasn't there supposed to be a third villain-only subclass in the DMG? Am I completely misremembering that? I can't for the life of me think what it was supposed to be, so chances are I'm just high on Cheeese. And it also suddenly occurs to me...

Very true, and what I meant to say but didn't. :) Nevertheless, I think it's pretty unlikely that they've licensed anything to small-scale app developers yet. The intention of the no-license-until-it's-all-out statement seemed to be that they only wanted folks they're working closely with...