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I already have a narrative challenge with players reaching high levels in short periods of game time. "Listen here, fledgling 'heroes'! I am a mighty dragon who has spent decades building my power and influence, and putting my plans into motion. You will never stop me! Leave me, and don't come...

The right people online at the right time, to engage in an online debate with passion and verve. I mean, your words caught my eye more than anyone else's. Now you have some attention on a forum. It's a double-edged sword.

I'm not calling you out, just taking a guess why you are getting the reactions you're getting. You've made some extreme statements about what should be allowed in a game where the primary conflict resolution is unaliving things. Are your words being construed as accusing others as engaging in...

First, Dark Sun is a mature setting. It's sword and sorcery and it breeds anti-heroes who have to kill to survive. If a Templar becomes an ex-Templar, they did so for a reason. They broke ties with their tyrant, and got to keep the powers. If they are intimately familiar with the nature of the...

I mentioned in another thread that I really want a good houndfolk species to use, but I'm posting here to not derail that thread. Anyone have any 3rd party suggestions that I can actually review before buying? As for what I don't want, I'm not looking for a species that is tied to wolves...

I want a real effort toward a quality houndfolk species that does not have inherent magic like the Humblefolk species, has some variants, and isn't a shapeshifter (Reskinning a shifter doesn't work for me as the shifting mechanics take up too much design space.) Shifter is close to what I want...

I've seen a fan create a Faerun globe map that planted the Radiant citadel locations in the unexplored continents like Osse and Katashaka and the many islands in those regions. I liked that. If Wizards designs mini-settings I find interesting, like many of the Radiant Citadel locations, I like...

And Carlos the Dwarf.

I have a fondness for the old Keep on the Borderlands. One of my earliest D&D experiences in the early 80s was being a 4th grader watching 5th graders play this in the school library, and it was fascinating. The stirges were deadly, and the Mound of the Lizard Men was like a beaver dam with an...

This is all speculation... They never said they were going to stop playing D&D, or that they didn't like D&D. They did say they wanted to play more games, and that is not the same thing as leaving D&D. Playing other games won't hurt Daggerheart, as they already have other actual plays of that...

The damage output I've been seeing when weapon users use abilities and magic weapons add other sources of flat modifiers and extra dice of damage is wild. At least with rolling dice there is a variance. If every bonus amount from a different source had to be significant and not rolled, then they...

Between the hurdles of figuring out the best way to advance past 30-year old game design, and what our society deems acceptable (the world isn't fond of grimdark hopeless slavery and SA breeding), no matter what, the story has to change in some way. So why not mess with the magic a bit more, so...

I did that too! My Peregrine Stalker is a cheetah/falcon "gryph" hybrid that are as at home in the savannah as they are in the nearby mountains that they nest in. I created "gryphs" for more than cats though, have you see the art online of "Trash Gryphons" and other griffon variants? There is...

Well, it's not a surprise to me, as it is widely known that all Unearthed Arcana articles get a survey that opens the week after the article is released. That survey is open for 2 weeks. Some may say that is not long enough, but that is how it worked leading up to the 2024 PHB subclasses too...

With the understanding that all damage and status effects are temporary and the victim recovers in time, there are all kinds of mechanics that represent the draining of energy/life or enervation. It broadens the design space, and I like that. Examples include: Hit Point loss due to damage Hit...

Easy come, easy go levels? I was in a 3E RPGA game were everyone was level 6, about to ding 7 at the end of an adventure, but the tank died in the last fight, which means they dropped to level 5, when everyone else was 7. There was no coming back from that. It was demoralizing to more than the...

Look at the prices. I own the Exodus Traveler's Handbook ($28.55), and it is a chonky one with awesome content. I am absolutely getting the Exodus Encyclopedia ($35.99), which is basically a Monster Manual+.

We would never play differing levels ever again. Old school PC death, energy/level drain, and even Wish/Deck of Many Things level-change shenanigans, subjective individual XP awards that not everyone acquires, all of them were disruptive to the party balance, even if it is a perceived imbalance...

Not abuse. It was a clever use of hostile magic on an ally to maneuver them, even if it hurt them. It works RAW, and works narratively. It's awesome that you won the "fear-off" with the imposing dragon, spooking your buddy closer to the dragon. It sounds like the Barbarian player enjoyed it...

I think factions would fight over the region of that cube, and each would try to establish control over it (whether to try and figure it out, or prevent others from doing so), and if any controlled it for enough time, long-term warcamps would pop up. If there is no water or other resources...