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I really need to sell the rest of my cards before that bubble bursts.

Haha, yeah. Me looking at dates, relevance, etc.. is not great. I was trying to look at how I made previous "Grove guardian" twiggy characters a little less stuck to the trope & a little more involved. Same issue people have with druids and more sylvan types

I figure they can understand the harsh realities of their oath & "forest for the 🌳 " So, you visibly cringe or weep inside at wanton waste of life while understanding that, that's the way things are. At that point you would teach, or maybe tactfully say something, and play the long game. My...

Probably some publishing differences between the East Coast WASP/provincial types establishment vs the podunk Texas establishment 😀 .. R.E.Howard went through quite a bit of intellectual bullying & bullying outside of his cohort group

All d20 rolls are - 2× exhaustion level . Speed reduced 5x exhaustion levels. Hollistically punishing, mechanically right, short & sweet. Really fun to put on an NPC weapon on a VTT. Makes the party rest situation really matter

I love how they do exhaustion now

Maybe, for that one slow, stupid enemy horde (also circumstantial). But, I was trying, maybe poorly, to articulate that something like the randomness of battle (turn order) can very much goof up enemy distribution to make sure your dominoes do not perfectly line up... even with orcs, dire...

Also... terrain, also rearguards, point guard, understanding ambush, corners, elevation (what GM lets the fireball magically emanate after the the hillcrest?), initiative is HUGE for the perfect fireball... so, is initiative such that your enemies march in a perfect blobbed formation somehow in...

Haha! Dusting off a Great Pumpkin analogy is pretty solid. Maybe I can save that analogy for a NPC demon that keeps mysteriously using pop culture references from across time & space to speak nonsense phrases to my high fantasy PC's. He also said; "You're in The Jungle Baby, Now you're gonna...

Agreed. A good majority of my mob encounters include terrain too. Which will make these spells even more situational (alot of ambushing, creepy wall-hugging types) The best use has been when our Champion uses the '24 alertness background feat to "whistle" at/ trade initiative with our caster in...

Usually, you can kind of tell because any character that the player had a true attachment to will have a whole bunch of remembered character traits and great canonized story.. vs stats and an unprepared, "hohum" response to situations.

Well... Laszlo, The Crimson Piss-badger of the Steppes, begat Laszlo the Warshrike, cousin to Laszlana, The Desert Fish, who could not birth children but was nonetheless betrothed to Laszlo, The Whirling Dervish - who crossed Gehennom's Quim with a 35 lbs cheese wheel strapped to his back at his...

I'm not so cynical about it. I think things are getting past the edgelord trope a bit. Many gen-x'ers are just having to retroactively train/untrain the grimdark to find the levity balance. I remember Adventure Time well. In Conan the levity usually came from the hedonistic "great mirth" at the...

Hard for me to say :) I'm still a R.E.Howard-head. So, I'm still a pretty big Sword & Sorc pulp guy. High adventures out on the Steppes, with very little time to hunker down with long rests... It's been great so far.... but, yeah, I don't think DnD is written often from the less-is-more...

Champion 🏆 Is my darling. I've watched too much Die Hard & Spaghetti Westerns, read too much Rob E Howard... So, I have a boatload of one-liners, particularly for good inspiration use. The mechanical simplicity lets me focus on my in-combat dialogue :) Or my terrain use/athletics and weapon...

Yeah, they are pretty great grouped with the '24 monk on vtt open scale maps as well. One of my enemy NPC was effectively locking down a party of 4 adventurers.. He was a champion riding a chariot & combining: slasher feat, frost giant Goliath, and tactical mastery to switch throwing axes to...

To clarify, I agree on rankings & rationale. Just explaining a less-talked about & less-tested subclass ability with the Zealot that has really altered the Zealot niche in a fun way. It has allowed the berserker to take over the "dmg-house" role while not relegating the Zealot either. Sure, it...

For sure, I just think new/'24 Zealy should be mentioned somewhat in-line with '14 bear totem for tanking... but with the bonus of putting out added dmg. Sure, berserker, is king of dmg for '24 barb, almost always wants to reckless attack, wants to be hit. Zealot plays out to pick & choose...

Zealot '24 is a tank-king sword & board guy. Resistance to S/P/B, HD 12, bonus action 12HD healing, easy access to double HD healing from uncommon periapt of wound closure, advantage on dex saving throw + shield mastery for 0 dmg dex saving throw, + sap master. Then modal options if you want to...

Interesting to me that Zealot is not mentioned in the Mt. Olympus pantheon of tanks now. HD-based Bonus Action healing @ HD 12. Then Resistance to B/P/S. You get ALOT of mileage out of that self healing with rage accounted for. On playtest, I have run sword & board Zealy that actually picks &...