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I’ve always thought of the slaadi as the ultimate anarchs, simply because they live in an environment where nothing — even the selves — has constancy. You can think of an archetypal CG or CE character being effectively “selfish” in terms of rejecting outside authority’s hold over them (either in...

To be fair, one friend misread slaad as salad the first time he saw the listing in the monster manual and thought that a green salad made sense (even if it was odd to fight, animated or otherwise), but a red salad or a grey salad was sort of gross. The logic of discussing battling your lunch...

At a certain point, there’s going to end up being an overly careful god whose clergy are known for all wearing the same goggles that he does.

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal?

I like to test the idea that speaking is a free action! ;)

I agree with the folks who say that there IS a reason for how the system is built, but I have a thought for the OP. Your line of thought seems to be built mainly around characters’ access to feats. Since the ASI/feats system is based largely on feats being optional (the core system assuming that...

If you were going to do so, I’d recommend using something akin to the 4e Bloodied condition so that the players have some feedback on when the characters are taking a substantial amount of damage against their total (this might give them a rough estimate of their character’s total, but that will...

The perfect monster for a bard to go up against, just to sing that name when it attacks!

Like others here, I prefer TTB to Death Spiral simply because how it ends up working. The idea of systematizing injury in a game is appealing and has long been sought after (look back to all the critical hit tables in late-70s games and magazines meant to be grafted onto Hit Point systems, long...

Sounds like players!

If the round system weren’t so abstracted, I’d be fine with the suggested system. However, the initiative system in the round system of D&D doesn’t really tell you who acts first — it tells you whose actions resolves first (hence why older versions had spells or heavier weapons cause delays in...

Another option is to rework it as a leveled racial ability (similar to other races’ spellcasting), where they begin with a very basic version but can then gain higher AC at third and then five level. That both matches up when they have plate-style AC with other characters better and allows...

If the player has ideas but the character doesn’t have the tools (in this case, literally), you can meet them halfway as DM by putting some of the stuff they need out there but making them find it. A drow prison likely has a workshop of some sort (if only to repair torture devices and the like)...

Reading through this, I wonder if the wrong question is being asked. Instead of munchkinism, I wonder if there’s instead an issue of where 5e’s defenses against power creep (something that occurs in every edition of every game) begin to break down. While there are legitimate arguments about (for...

If the player can describe a Crafting Montage and then start humming the A-Team theme, I’d make things easier for them, but that’s probably just the sort of thing the folks whom I play with do...

It strikes me (no pun intended) that the problem here is how folks are thinking about what attacks and rolls represent. You aren’t making an attack roll because you’re swinging your sword — you can do that because you have a sword and the physical ability to swing it — you’re making a roll...

Don’t tell me what I can’t do!

I’ve been rereading the IDW run of Transformers of late (as the continuity-closing Unicron begins) and part of me is now half-pondering this question. I still think that the Palladium system (with its unbalanced system, robotic strength, Robotech-derived system, supernatural system for the...

Not a comment per se, but a question: is the change at the Morrus level or the vBulletin level? My first thought, having been away a few days and only now seen it on my iPad, is that it was a mobile version rendering, but folks are commenting on it being on their desktop too. But that doesn’t...

I’m curious how the multiclassing reflects split personalities — are you only going to be using a given set of abilities/proficiencies when a given “brother” is the alter in charge? Because that seems (in a level-based system like D&D) to either kneecap the character (and thus the party) by...