Search results

I think my impression of what D&D is comes from those old Infinity Engine computer games, so when the whole party is animals, it's more like...I dunno. A computer game I wouldn't play to begin with. I'm just not a big fan of anthropomorphic animals.

D&D feels less like D&D to me the more nonhuman the PC menagerie becomes. A Tortle/Tabaxi/Tiefling/Dragonborn party feels not much like D&D to me.

There are published campaigns where there either is no magic bow, or it's easy to miss. This is a favorite of my party's Arcane Trickster for that region. Spells like Hallow I don't really consider "bad," as they're more for world-construction than combat. A player might get a little utility...

In a way, it's both. Hasbro was unhappy with WotC's profits and wanted them to make more money, and just about everybody at the top either quit or was fired. What followed (along with shuttering all the WotC stores and other things) was D&D 3.5, where WotC decided to do all the stupid stuff that...

Bless is pretty dope. +1d4 to attacks and saves? For a whole combat? D. O. P. E. Protection from Energy is garbage. It would be less garbage if you could upcast it to your pals, you know, make the whole party resist dragon breath for a 6th-level slot, but you can't.

The half HP restriction is kind of silly IMO. To keep it simple: Try this: "Choose up to five creatures. Give each one your level's worth of HP."

You seem to really hate buffs that last for a single combat encounter.

I have been using the following modification to Ranger for a couple years. It has been quite successful without being dopey, so I am sharing it. Obviously, this is a house rule. Don't want to use it? Don't! Want to change it? Do! Here are my modifications: Natural Explorer: You can choose...

Oh, ok. I thought you were doing a dual-wielding Rogue that had dipped into Bladesinger for whatever reason. Nevermind, then. It works exactly how you'd expect in the OP.

If you cast booming blade, you did not take the Attack action. You took the Cast a Spell action. Thus the rule for two-weapon fighting does not apply: This is not the same as making a melee weapon attack as part of a spell. It's a specific Action. It's the same reasoning for why you can't...

Any word associated with technological advance will be associated with colonization, as, going at least as far back as Bronze Age Greek colonists effortlessly massacring Stone Age tribes, and no doubt earlier, colonization is enabled by technological supremacy. You can delete the word...

Well, I've maintained since 2015 that Paizo had no good options, since it staked its product identity on somebody else's brand. Any product that fails to meet revenue expectations and has to be pulled from the market well before its planned EOL is a failure. For example, as much as D&D 3 can...

This is exactly what I am talking about, not the opposite. What I mean by the splat-driven concept is this idea that the true cycle of an RPG is driven by the publisher eventually ruining it by choking the rules to death, then rebooting it, forcing customers to update to the new thing. The...

The 3.x system's life was ended by 5e. There was no reason written in the laws of nature why it should have lasted 15 years. It was the best-supported, most market-pleasing version of D&D right up until the day 5e dropped into consumers' hands. IMO a splat-driven concept of a game's life is...

The problem is that PF2e, like 4e, has diverged sufficiently from the core D&D experience (what that exactly is varies from person to person and is difficult to verbalize) to leave a lot of people cold. It's like D&D in the sense of having your goblins, ogres, chromatic dragons, healing clerics...

Yeah, well before, it just largely had no effect whatsoever.

There is nothing in the Contagion spell referencing the poisoned condition. The what to the who now? I'm still running out of first printing books. That's one heck of an errata. So I take it back. Since they made Contagion actually do something for the first three rounds, it's not completely...

Yes, I'm aware of what the design is. I'm saying the design is bad because it's blatant power creep. Valor: Combat Inspiration may be applied by an ally to one damage roll or to boost AC against one attack roll. Swords: one damage roll and every single attack made against you for a whole round...

Mordenkainen's Sword is bad, but I would argue that Contagion is even worse. For example, M's Sword is on the Bard list, but Bigby's Hand is not. So, you know, conceivably, somebody could hand me a pregen Valor Bard sheet where he'd used Magical Secrets on healing spells, and M's Sword was his...

Regardless of whether there's some ambiguity in the text of Unarmed Strike; there is no ambiguity whatsoever in monster stat blocks. They explicitly say, "melee weapon attack," and any time monster natural weapons have come up in SA, they've been resolved in favor of player effectiveness. If you...