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No, not unnoticed, I just didn't have time to read it till now. This is pretty interesting, especially Path of the Heart. The idea of a noncombatant subclass for a warlord/commander didn't occur to me, and it nicely models the prince/princess archetype. Good work!

I've been trying to play for a while BtB, and while it bothers me a little bit, whack-a-mole works OK in play. None of my PCs have died yet, but several times people have reached strike two before anyone could get to them, and a couple of times the person helping them had to do something crazy...

Hiya, El Mahdi: Thanks for putting so much thought into this! Moonsong: I haven't looked at the Noble class yet in EN5ider, but I'll be sure to check it out. Regarding El Mahdi's suggested class powers: I kind of agree with others that a lot of them seem overcomplicated. Command Presence...

I know, but at the same time this is just an avatar of Orcus, right? A relatively weak prime material plane manifestation.

Indeed! Hence the calculus. The local reference frames are infinitesimals, and solving Einstein's equation for general relativity yields a large number of coefficients that fully describe the geometrical properties of the 4D space-time. I had to do this to trace photon trajectories around a...

Just to add a gloss to Umbran's very nice answer: Special Relativity can be derived from the assumption that light travels at the same speed in every reference frame. General Relativity can be derived from the same assumption, plus a second assumption that inertial mass and gravitational mass...

I've run a few solos and I find that legendary creatures make a much more entertaining and challenging fight than a non-legendary creature of any CR. HPs are not the issue so much as actions, and the extra actions do wonders not just to keep pressure on the PCs but also to move the creature into...

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From my campaign: "Laughing Moon", a +0 magic sickle with the versatile property (long hilt). It does +1d6 damage to shapeshifters (intended for weres but also applies to druids) and on a critical hit triggers Tasha's Hideous Laughter. Shapeshifters have disadvantage on the save.

Monks and barbarians = Wandering mystics, dervishes, desert warriors, and so forth. All the basic races are close enough to human that they don't really change the feeling of an Arabian Nights setting. I excluded dragonborn and sorcerers. I slightly reflavored half-elves, tieflings, and...

I'd go with the setting that you're enthusiastic about. You'll communicate that feeling to the players. Also, nearly everyone is familiar with Arabian Nights. Pitch the setting to them that way, and they shouldn't have a problem.

Did Paizo publish a goblin variant with a prehensile tail at one point?

Well, the OP did ask for the "ugly"...

You're right, I was referring to the beginning of the hot dense phase, because anything prior to that doesn't have direct observational support. The singularity is an extrapolation, and most astrophysical cosmologists (as I was) do not include it in polite conversation. :)

Example 1: "I wish I were the god of beer!" Wish spell: simply fails. Good/helpful genie: "Beyond my power. Wish for something else." Evil/angry genie: Transforms PC into stone idol, transports it to an ignorant and isolated tribe somewhere along with a hundred casks of excellent beer. PC is...

I also make a distinction between mortal and legendary wishes. Wish spell--its main, consequence-free use is as a joker to duplicate any spell in the game, and it can produce other effects in line with mortal spells. Demon lord, noble genie, archangel: as above, and could go a bit farther...

Thanks for the update! I'm interested in hearing more about the string theory version of a multiverse. As I recall, another possible multiverse model was 'eternal inflation', which only requires a vacuum field and not string theory. (Aside for the benefit of others) Inflation was a very...

The Greyhawk heavy-hitters are explicitly neutral/selfish. The Circle of Eight is a group of archmages that mainly care about protecting their own prerogatives and occasionally manipulating politics to prevent a superpower from emerging. This is very much in the Dying Earth style--the archmages...

Ok. Quick question for you: One of the big problems with the dark energy/cosmological constant component of the universe is explaining its value-- when I was in grad school the best models from particle physics proposing a nonzero vacuum energy were still 30 orders of magnitude off from the...

Interestingly, though, Bohr himself did not favor this interpretation. He considered the wavefunction to describe an inseparable relationship between the system being measured and the experimental apparatus. He never took steps to try to formalize that idea with mathematics, but he expressed...