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I'll say that reducing max hp without a save seems like it should be scary- the lvl6 melee warlock in one of my recent sessions was down to 11 max hp ... but for some reason, it's not like.. "oh sht I've been level-drained down to 2nd level from 6th" scary. The character isn't losing capability...

The post I replied to was literally saying "I wouldn't let mage hand disarm traps or pick locks unless the player had a good reason to be able to see the mechanism from a distance" 😅

That hits on niche protection: there's a feature that exists (AT's Mage Hand Legerdemain) that specifically allows you to use thieves tools to disarm traps and pick locks with Mage Hand. Allowing mage hand to do so without that feature buffs the cantrip greatly, and invalidates a big feature of...

It occurs to me that OP didn't specify whether they were looking for a heritage, or a monster... and we're all just assuming heritage. They did ask about the MoMe, which makes me think they meant monster.

Why is no one talking about it? Well, it came out over a year ago 😅 It had some chatter about it around its release time- there was a lot of talk about the unfortunate production problems of the cards being ruined by ambient moisture, which iirc was later resolved but might've delayed its...

It's rare, but pointing to my own earlier post.. tragedy is more likely (IMO) to occur by way of the PCs making in-character choices. It does require them to lean into roleplaying, acting as they think their character would, and it probably (not necessarily) means going against the common "must...

Yup! I noted in the OP that this was just Utility cantrips we were talking about; maybe I missed someone else's post about limiting ALL cantrips, but as noted in OP I was against limiting attack cantrips due to mechanical concerns, pretty much what you cited :'D

I think this is just a misalignment of expectations regarding what kind of setting you have in your D&D world, and what kind of challenges you draw inspiration from in challenging the party. It's definitely "on me" to address trying to run D&D in NOT a high-fantasy world, and this thread is one...

I guess I've had a bunch. Some were incredibly well-done thanks to player buy-in (that's pretty important in general). Off the top of my head, the birth of Lareth the Beautiful was a tragedy of a PC's own making. tldr: "Lareth the Beautiful" (cleric to an evil deity with half his face scarred...

Can you help define tragedy in this context? Perhaps provide an example or two?

I appreciate the question, because I wasn't sure where it ended up either after knowing about the playtest 10-level version.

The West Marches style of play is sort of based off of the original premise, but these characters are all still tied to one West Marches Campaign. The closest you might to your original citation is Adventurers League- but that's not taking characters between campaigns, they're basically...

I think Paypal was confused as to why they were involved in a $0.00 transaction 😂 I don't have to do that for $0 stuff on DTRPG 🤔 Anyway, grabbed it cuz I can't afford the FOMO. Thanks for the heads up!

Trying to understand said posts, I think the fear is that the game will be designed for online play over in-person tabletop. I'm not exactly sure what that looks like, but I can understand the fear even if I don't agree with it.

Overpowered isn't the right word, IMO. But nerfing them.. hm, well I guess if you don't want to get into the nitty gritty of changing each spell then "nerfing" them could be making them 1st level spells as others have suggested. Honestly, it's not a terrible idea.. they do scale, after all. An...

I went with 6 because 5-10 is the core gameplay area of 5e, so 3PB seems a good example to plan for :) My tables tend to take ~2-3 short rests per long rest, so having ~15 mage hands per long rest seems pretty reasonable. The whole purpose behind this is to introduce more choices to make and...

To my mind, giving pb*2 uses per cantrip per short rest is effectively not limiting them at all. Having 6 uses of Light and 6 uses of Mage Hand per short rest really isn't going to affect how often you make use of either. But you did ask a good question, are we talking a pool (like spell...

It was lots of Wazhack, and then lots of Caves of Qud, and then lots of Conan Exiles (yay game with friends!) and now we're trying Soulmask.

While I wholly agree, so far the legal battle has not gone well in favor of video game preservation.