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The further ones down on the list are certainly cool, but I wouldn't want to play in a campaign where the GM started reading that list and let the fiddly initiative reroll get them into a tactical mindset. Getting shunted to another plane (no save) is usually a pretty solid tactical option. I...

I pace. Oh gods, do I pace. Many of my players refuse to play without their backs to the wall, because I'll pace behind them... back and forth for hours. On the bright side, I burn a lot of calories GMing. Cheers! Kinak

Funny quote from that thread: Cheers! Kinak

Pretty good take on sphinxes, definitely powered up from their previous incarnations. Those lair actions are a weird mix, from the minimally effective to the argument inducing to the completely brutal. It could make for some cool plot points, but mixing campaign-altering plot point powers with...

I was curious, so I dug it up. If anyone else is curious, it's archived here. Cheers! Kinak

Looking forward to hearing more about this this weekend. Pathfinder Online isn't really my speed, but Obsidian might very easily hit the sweet spot for me. Cheers! Kinak

Giant stirges anyone? Cheers! Kinak

I'm assuming your player's okay with this. It's a subject a lot of people have strong emotions on and most of the rest have strong opinions on how it works. In game, it's definitely worth giving the player some agency, though. Choose checks based on whether they're trying to lie (Wis and Cha...

The low HPs at first level will probably help some compared to 4e as well. Cheers! Kinak

Oooooooo, and I was hoping to see what the legendary rules could really do. One second... I need to prepare myself. Okay, I'm good.

I believe the 5e answer is Wisdom, but I've always been a big believer in "Charisma as willpower." Cheers! Kinak

They're just collectible things that people like. As to why people would collect them... people collect stamps and beanie babies, wine bottles and ticket stubs. My dad collects baseball cards. There are some mysteries we may never understand. Cheers! Kinak

Splitting damage out into a bunch of different attacks definitely decreases the usefulness of AoOs. In my Pathfinder homebrew, I've collapsed monsters down to one attack and it's very obvious in the way that players work to avoid AoOs. Making tactics the most important at first level, when any...

Might be time for me to give Glorantha another shot. Cheers! Kinak

In the first playtest, the kobolds and cave rats both had rules like this. The 18 cave rat encounter in the caves is obviously something of an outlier, but six or eight kobold encounters are really par for the course. Players turns were zippy (as first level turns generally are), but I was...

As a GM, which version I prefer largely comes down to the monsters. So I'm really looking more towards the MM than the PHB to make my call. If the HotDQ pdf is any indication, I'm comfortable staying where I am. Cheers! Kinak

I think that's what the Legendary Resistance is for :) But, yeah, once it runs out of resistance, stun should probably prevent LAs as well. Cheers! Kinak

Yeah, both the items and the creation guidelines are supposed to be in the DMG. Cheers! Kinak

I can't speak for Goodman, aside from saying they put out good product, but one of the guy's working on Necromancer's modules also worked on Tyranny of Dragons. So the situation is a lot more complicated than that :) Cheers! Kinak

Looks like a pretty solid mash up. I like the fey plane and shadow plane having places in the cosmology, even though I never really liked the names Feywild and Shadowfell. About the only thing I don't like is the "Positive Energy = Good; Negative Energy = Evil" way those are set up. I always...