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I have Dragonstar, and it's an influence, but I never took a liking to the "instantaneous transport" concept. Or the "fuelled exclusively by double-digit spellcasters" concept. In Galactic Dragons, aetherships are propelled by enchanted turbines that are fuelled by an alchemical mixture-- much...

My precious terrible idea was that the game took place in a spiral galaxy. One arm of the galaxy was ruled by the PHB+1 Empire, one arm of the galaxy was ruled by the OA+1 Empire, and the game takes place in the arm between them, about a century after most of the colonies overthrew their...

I'm pretty much only interested in settings with magic in them-- with a few narrow exceptions-- but most intersections of "fantasy" with "Western" are going to get my attention. Even games with more of a horror focus, like Deadlands, are going to be high on my list. One of my projects was...

It's not just strawberry jam on roast beef, though-- it's the combination of the strawberry and the nostril-searing mustard that makes it sing.

Turns out my standard "cream cheese and strawberry jelly" on a roast beef sandwich can be simplified by using strawberry-flavored whipped cream cheese spread. Cream cheese on one slice of bread, dijon mustard-- the hotter the better-- on the other, hot roast beef and sliced havarti between.

For starters, assume that changing classes like that in the middle of the game is the exception, not the norm. If you're looking for as little change to 3.X rules as possible, Overhauling Multiclassing breaks it down into a feat chain. I don't run Wizards D&D anymore. If I did, I'd probably...

A subclass could override the general rule. And... my memory is failing me here, but I believe it's been done before. There are a lot of things the 5e team could have done better if they'd thought about them for half a minute. The long public playtest aside, it just doesn't appear to have been...

That's a major portion of my complaint that 3.X multiclassing was broken and incoherent, and likewise my disappointment that 5e reinstated it.

Absolutely, one hundred percent agreed.

The narrative lever is that it says a Druid will not wear metal armor. Wearing armor doesn't make them an ex-druid, but they have to stop being a druid before they can wear metal armor. It's crappy, and I'd sure as hell change it, but it's not unclear.

Says you! Says a lot of people, actually, but that's a personal belief that isn't validated by any external authority, and it runs contrary to how large numbers of other people want to play the game-- hence all the conversation over which D&D setting should be the "default setting" next time. Do...

Honestly, any core setting assumptions are going to get that exact same response. What they want is a "generic" fantasy system that will work for their own personal setting out of the box-- which is impossible-- and one that says D&D on the box and is played by millions of other people whose own...

Yes, and the nerfing of natural armor (and thus barkskin) from 3e to 5e was the intentional correction of an error-- 3.X was the only version of D&D that ever allowed them to stack this way, and it had to be fixed. Druids are allowed to wear non-metal Medium Armor, or take the Heavy Armor...

You know, I used to believe that "Skip the Sage" was the column's title. Later on, I started to think it was intended as advice. I used to think that... just trying to follow the rules the way they were intended to work, with exceptions made for intentional house rules, was good enough for most...

Look, I acknowledge that replying to all of your arguments by saying "you mean" and rephrasing them to support my position is... abusive. I'm trying to participate in this argument in good faith, but every asinine post you make seems predicated on the belief that nothing means anything unless...

If it's powerful enough to grant people spells, I don't think it matters much how those people "regard" it.

So it's your assertion then that magic powers in D&D are matter of training and practice and do not ever stem from external sources, like the Cleric and the Druid and the Warlock are all explicitly state is the case? In addition to all of the other rules you're explicitly ignoring.

It doesn't say that they don't have proficiency with metal armor, it doesn't say they suffer nonproficiency penalties, and it doesn't say they can't obtain proficiency and then proceed to wear metal armors-- even though I would glady allow it. It says they will not wear metal armor. That's a rule.

Then I guess he doesn't cast divine spells, does he?

You mean... the class that their power set comes from?