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  1. Hriston

    D&D General 1s and 20s: D&D's Narrative Mechanics

    Sounds like a normal failure result to me! 🤷🏼
  2. Hriston

    D&D General How do I build Crystar in D&D?

    He chooses to ally with Order, so it seems like a natural fit to me. It's listed as having an "essentially earthlike" environment on marvunapp.com, so I would think of it as an alternative Earth in a parallel Prime. I like to put any world that's the focus of conflict for the PCs on the Prime...
  3. Hriston

    D&D General How do I build Crystar in D&D?

    He should be a human paladin. His crystal physiology is basically armor. He's the main character, so he should be a PC. On the planet world of Crystalium which I assume is a Material Plane world.
  4. Hriston

    D&D General Dwarven Vikings

    Why, yes! In the current state of my evolving default setting for D&D, which is heavily influenced by JRR Tolkien's "matter of Middle-earth", there is a direct correspondence between Dwarves and the Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) of the real world. Their story begins in the "time before...
  5. Hriston

    D&D 5E (2024) Should a general Adventurer class be created to represent the Everyman?

    Contrary to the impression my posts might have created, I'm not particularly concerned with the name. I'm just trying to understand the concept because I think it's important, when designing a class for 5E, to have a clear idea of its story. The central concept you describe here seems to be...
  6. Hriston

    D&D General 1s and 20s: D&D's Narrative Mechanics

    I don't do critical success/failure on ability checks or saves. If the roll succeeds, the character achieves their intent. If it fails, they do not and suffer a consequence I probably stated before the roll was made. I don't know what you mean by narrative mechanic, but I assume it has...
  7. Hriston

    D&D 5E (2024) Should a general Adventurer class be created to represent the Everyman?

    Okay, but in the title you say outright and in the OP imply the "Adventurer" class is meant to represent "the Everyman" by which I assumed you meant the Everyman stock character archetype. Maybe you meant something else. I don't know. Of the concepts you've described here, only the first seems...
  8. Hriston

    Against the Giants 5e PBP (Full)

    I'm in. Hopefully everyone hasn't gotten completely sick of Bible's Popeye impreshkyns. I've been working on toning it down a little and finding Bible's unique voice. Please bear with me. 🙂
  9. Hriston

    D&D 5E (2024) Should a general Adventurer class be created to represent the Everyman?

    Okay, yeah, maybe in the Geek Talk forum, lol. This clarifies things somewhat, but I think calling it the "Everyman" is muddling the conversation. The everyman isn't the lucky guy or the guy protected by fate or the gods. If that's the concept, then I think a better name for the class would be...
  10. Hriston

    D&D 5E (2024) Should a general Adventurer class be created to represent the Everyman?

    That doesn't quite capture it, and I don't think being average really comes into it. Ordinary is closer to the mark, but not average because the everyman must also display benign conduct for easy audience identification: things like being kind, gentle, good-natured, and friendly. The average...
  11. Hriston

    D&D 5E (2024) Should a general Adventurer class be created to represent the Everyman?

    Sure, but what about the description? The examples are just there for illustrative purposes. I don't see a lot of agreement in the thread about what an everyman is, so I was hoping for some discussion along those lines. It's hard to design a class without a clear idea of its story. The article...
  12. Hriston

    D&D 5E (2024) Should a general Adventurer class be created to represent the Everyman?

    I think for a PC class to play as an everyman, as distinct from an archetypal hero, it needs to grant abilities that allow the player to counter opposition through ambivalence and avoiding engagement but should also let the player take swift vigorous action reactively to avert disaster only when...
  13. Hriston

    IN REMEMBRANCE--2025

    Hassan Islayeh, prominent Palestinian journalist, was killed in a targeted strike Tuesday while he was being treated at Nasser Hospital for wounds from a previous strike.
  14. Hriston

    IN REMEMBRANCE--2025

    Yesenia Lara Gutiérrez, a candidate for mayor of Texistepec, Mexico, was killed Sunday, along with four of her supporters, when shots rang out at a campaign rally in the eastern state of Veracruz.
  15. Hriston

    For those of you who have set up play-by-post games, how do you do it?

    It's customary, from what I've seen, to have an "out of character" thread for bookkeeping type things, like if someone's going to be AFK for an extended period or something, and an "in character" thread for the game itself. I'm not sure if it's necessary though. I think everything could be...
  16. Hriston

    D&D 5E (2024) What medievalesque skill name do you prefer, for machinery, architecture, math, physics?

    I voted for Investigation because, while knowledge of cultural practices that aren't specific to an arcane tradition or a religious community fall under History, experimentation and practical application fall under Investigation.
  17. Hriston

    D&D 5E (2024) What medievalesque skill name do you prefer, for machinery, architecture, math, physics?

    I think the collection of subjects to which you refer are mostly covered by History (i.e. machinery, architecture, constructs, math, complex traps, and similar technologies). The rest is Nature (i.e. physics).
  18. Hriston

    For those of you who have set up play-by-post games, how do you do it?

    I'm not sure how to answer your question. What do you mean by "set up"?
  19. Hriston

    D&D 5E (2014) If you could run or play in any D&D 5e campaign right now, which would it be?

    I'm not sure why this question is being limited to 5E. It seems to imply the question's about a published "campaign" rendered in a specific system, but the campaign concept applies pretty much universally to all versions of D&D and its variants. Since I'm currently running a 5E game which would...
  20. Hriston

    For those of you who have set up play-by-post games, how do you do it?

    I've participated in PbP games here on enworld and on the dndbeyond forums. Here, it was as a player only, but on dndbeyond I've both played and DM'd. I've had good experiences with both sites. I'm not familiar with discord and am not sure how running a PbP in a group chat would go, if that's...
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