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In the 5e PHB under Bonus Actions in chapter 9 (pg 189) it says "You choose when to take a bonus action during your turn, unless the bonus action's timing is specified, and anything that deprives you of your ability to take actions also prevents you from taking a bonus action." I wasn't able to...

I used to be anti-metacurrency in all forms. More often than not I didn't think the implementation was necessary to the game. Other times it felt like there was a best way to use it and any other option wasn't worth it. I've recently found an exception with Darkness Points in Coriolus: The Third...

Half and one and a half proficiency should see more use for skills and saving throws. Not stacking advantage and disadvantage is a good thing in my opinion. I also like the lack of plusses and minuses. But I don't like how much of the game hangs off that one mechanic. I'd like a second set of...

If no one is on the front line then everyone is on the frontline. You can let them learn this the hard way. It doesn't even have to be "hard". Just hit them with an encounter where all the baddies are melee focused. Three goblins with spears with each one focusing on a different PC works. Let...

I chose the first option. Generally speaking I prefer whoever instigated the action to act first and then those affected act second.

All wizard college in a similar vein to the Mage's Guilds or College of Winterhold in the Elder Scrolls. All artificer party during a magical industrial revolution. All martials in a world of the supernatural, but not overly magical. No mages, no magical swords, no floating castles in the...

The Kingsman: The Golden Circle The Kingsman was a fun movie. Not a masterpiece, but besides a very weirdly placed joke near the end I can't think of anything I would change. The sequel, on the other hand, is the type of movie that gets worse the more you think about it.

I agree. Giving them death saves works pretty well at lower levels. Spell it out in case DM's treat them like Monsters. Level 7 feels like a good point to give them some kind of "When your HP hits 0 you instead have 1 HP instead. Until the Ranger takes an action to calm the beast it can only use...

Totally missed the A5e bit so you've got firearms covered. The druids and artificers bit was just a joke about the actual people of the PNW. Don't forget private enforcers if you want another type of evil faction.

Thanks for the interesting topic. It's fun to think about how to make all these things work together. Looking at your map can I ask that the western bit where you've crammed together Washington state and British Columbia be filled with a group of Druids and Artificers attempting to live side by...

My last new purchase was Strixhaven mid-2022. It was an impulse buy as the reviews I read didn't sound great. Eventually I gave in as I wanted to know. Turns out I should have trusted the reviews as it didn't provide me with what I had hoped. My actual last purchase was 2023. I took Xanathar's...

I've been wanting to get back to D&D and run a few sessions with a new XP system I've had bouncing around my head. I've also got a Summoner class that I've been meaning to give more table time to. Any more than that would be setting myself up for failure since Sci-fi has taken over my table for...

Great to see Riordan is on board and the actors are much closer to book age. If the series does well they won't be 30 trying to play 15 year olds by the end. The one thing I always wish they did with longer series like this is do more than one book a season. Do book 1 with 6-8 episodes in the...

The power up started as a bad guy thing. They would use a bonus action to power up for an ability on their next turn. This was reserved for big stuff like a breath weapon, high level spell, or action surge. In one case I used it to show a giant picking up two boulders with the idea that she'd...

Cool Down Spells: When you cast a spell you cannot cast that spell again for X amount of time. In many ways it is similar to 4e's AEDU without having the same distinct line between spells. It would need to be retuned for table top and D&D style magic, but I don't see why it couldn't work. Cool...

Looks my harebrained idea was similar to yours. After some different attempts I ended up with Armor being its own pool of HP separate from normal HP. Similar to HP and THP in DnD. Every time you take damage you subtract half from your armor pool and half from HP (Armor takes the extra point on...

General shape-shifting in TTRPGs: I want there to be a differentiation between full and partial shifting. Using DnD as an example a Druid wildshaping and the Polymorph spell are what I consider full shifting. The Beast Barbarian and the Alter Self spell are partial. I don't care if a game...

Agreed. I don't mind when a show with 20ish episodes has a mid season break. Taking a break with 8 is annoying.

There are a lot of reasons for shows to be done weekly and I think those reasons outweigh full drop by a lot. But on a personal level I would prefer to get them all at once and watch them at my speed. Shows that drop a few episodes per week are the best. You get the benefits of the binge and...

Bigger =/= badder, but mass matters. I'd prefer to have that advantage when fighting. As for gators, that might be up there for biggest animal any human could realistically fight if they know what they're doing. I'm not nearly as knowledgeable about gators as dogs though so don't count me as...