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I have been wondering lately if Warlocks aren't a better fit for replicating what 2nd edition psionics was like than the sorcerer or wizard. Reason #1. They didn't have a huge array of powers. A 1st level psionicist had access to 1 science and 3 devotions, all within the same discipline. By...

My feeling is that if magic and psionics are interchangeable functionally or mechanically, it kind of ruins the dichotomy set up in the setting. If psionics can do all the things magic can do, then why bother with magic? It would be irredeemably evil. We will have lost the veiled alliance as a...

Jarreth challenges her to "solve" the labyrinth. If I solve a maze by drawing a line out of bounds to the other side, or just ignoring the intervening walls, have I solved it? Maybe you could say yes, because that's demonstrating "outside of the box" thinking. Maybe you could say no, because...

https://pantheon.org/articles/h/hel.html The Gylfaginning is the first part of the Prose Edda, and was written in Old Norse. Based on her context as a death deity, I would assume her blue-black half is meant to be corpse-like. I wouldn't mind having a look at an annotated version of the Prose...

I wonder sometimes how when we subvert a trope how much we really escape the thing we subvert. Like when Dragon Age presents us with elves that are treated as slaves and second-class citizens, we go "Ah, well, that's different..." but it's only really different because of Tolkien. Part of their...

I think it depends on the scope of their magic. If these beings are using magic to turn armies into pigs and call down flaming meteors from their enchanted flying castles and ruling the land with animated suits of armor, magic is still going to be ubiquitous, it's just that only a few small...

Still kind of hard to imagine a brontosaurus with feathers.

Invisible Stalker + Doppelganger = It looks like an invisible version of you. Spooky.

Of course there is St. Cuthbert, who ascended to godhood and hid his holy mace in... a museum in London, England.

Oerik. More specifically, the Flanaess, which is the eastern half of Oerik.

Those are some well-sculpted minis. I like them.

I voted the last option, because I feel it should be split between race/species and background (excluding culture.) Race/Species bonuses should reflect physiology or nature aspects. This is going to be fairly restricted to the physical stats: Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution. Background...

Armblades are a little bigger than daggers, right? Daggers are concealable but a pat-down will possibly reveal them. I am not sure how you would discover a retracted armblade.

Cortex shares a bit of DNA with games like Fate, where there is more importance on things like character relationships, player input, complications, etc.

In the game Samurai Shodown there are a couple of characters with animal companions: one with a hawk and another with a wolf. The animal companions were at most times considered part of the background, until the character used them as part of a special attack, which might have some kind of...

I wasn't talking about anger. I was talking about madness, that is to say, mental illness.

I would avoid madness entirely, as this may link mental illness with violence, which can be a harmful stereotype. And kid's gloves with the Totem Warrior, make sure that it is run by a sensitivity reader. Totems are a source of consternation for some first nations peoples, like mana and shamanism.

Appropriation from who?

I think I like the idea of Gnomes having a superior sense of smell, which is how they are able to identify illusions so well. Even if an illusion includes a scent, it's never quite... up to snuff.

One reason I suggested contriving a way of bringing back the Sorcerer Kings is because... this kind of means that 5e Dark Sun doesn't have anything new in it. No surprises, new toys, new plots. We've seen it all before, aside from new mechanics to play it with 5th edition. We can do that...