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GILGAMESH AND ENKIDU AT URUK.

I'm increasingly liking the "Brushfire Wars" idea, and that the cast has to be cheap. So I'm thinking Carl Weathers, Martin Kove, Tia Carrere, Michael Dudikoff, Christopher Lambert . . . that tier of action hero.

Oh, "Commando" was the greatest. In fact, the other great campaign idea is to just play the "Brushfire Wars" supplement front to back, keeping it all in the late 1980s. I would allow era-appropriate cyberwarfare if someone wanted to play Mainframe from "G.I. Joe" --- Vietnam vet lugging...

Just keep it feeling like a B-movie on a videotape, y'know? With some ninjas, and Uzis, and maybe some of the co-stars from "Predator." And Cory Everson from ESPN's "Bodyshaping."

For a couple years in the late 1980s, Top Secret S.I. was my jam. Just got to looking at the three-part "Web Wars" campaign, where a team of agents gets involved in espionage shenanigans on a fictional Caribbean island. Now that would be a hell of a campaign to try in the year 2020 if you...

I love Unearthed Arcana. Just a free monthly peek at work-in-progress, and we all weigh in now instead of after publication.

Indeed. And getting back to the Faceman idea, there maybe isn't a rogue subclass that is built around that archetype, but if you do Expertise (Bluff and Diplomacy) and then go Mastermind or Swashbuckler, you can at least get close (and Inquisitive kinda works too, for a guy who listens as well...

I don't claim that a character whose default strategy each round of combat is Dodge + Bonus Help is going to help a party win fights at the same rate as a combat-optimized Rogue. I just like that it's an option for a character who is essentially a non-combatant who somehow keeps ending up in...

I like having some options like that --- way back in 1st Edition, I read the part about sages, and said, I wanna play that guy. For this sort of character, I like features such as "Bonus Help" and other "lazy warlord" features --- the character ends up enhancing the overall combat effectiveness...

Well, you could play a forest gnome and try to smooth-talk squirrels and birds.

Lotta good thoughts here. Mastermind might be the most appealing of the current options. I'm a big fan of the "Help as bonus action" feature. In fact, something along the lines of an Essentials Sidekick could be a cool approach --- Expertise in Diplomacy and Bluff, and default mode in...

Something for the high-Charisma types . . . the charmers who talk their way out of problems. Because I'm rewatching "Leverage" while reading "Primeval Thule," and I love the idea of a swords-and-sorcery campaign about a guy with a silver tongue, as opposed to the customary iron thews.

I would actually love to see a band that really committed to an old-school D&D meets old-school metal aesthetic.

Oh, Black Sabbath was going for a particular vibe back around 1970, and others followed. I just ended up putting together a little playlist to listen to while I read Primeval Thule, for that old-school swords-and-sorcery feeling . . . <iframe src="Spotify" width="300" height="380"...

Quite right, but in the context of heavy metal, I'm hopeful it would read as more of an Ozzy thing.

I'd like that frontman to rethink the glasses. Maybe get some little tinted round ones, like Ozzy. I mean, ideally, you'd just get rid of your eyes if they are weak, and just have the empty sockets, and the audience would stare into them and the emptiness would stare back, but the Ozzy glasses...

That is indeed a neat idea, but the monk seems like good starting point for a sort of weaponized yogi build. That bear barbarian might reach similar results, though.

Now I really want to see a fighter or monk based on the "Immortal" from the mystic playtest. The guy who can keep going with ten arrows sticking out of him, because pain don't hurt and he ain't got time to bleed.

EDIT: Never mind. I made a hilarious reference to Patrick Stewart's appearance on "Extras." It's worth a Google.

Ah, Unearthed Arcana. It eases the pain, doesn't it? It eases the pain.