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The chase rules in the DMG. When you focus everything on speed, things like your Constitution play a factor in how many times you can use the Dash action each turn and how easily you can get worn-out by pushing yourself.

I think that's just supposed to be a dragon's "in combat" speed. Like, the fastest a dragon can move without losing maneuverability or risking overexertion. If you're being chased by an adult red dragon, it can cover a maximum distance of 880 feet in six seconds (146 ft/s = 100 mph), eleven...

Can Wild Talent manifest as one useful power and one random power that's the magical equivalent of a trinket? We could make up a whole table of them, with stuff like "Can hum entire chords instead of just singular notes" or "can conjure an ectoplasmic psi-construct of any hat they have seen...

4e did a lot of things very differently from other editions, and not everyone was happy about it, but psionics was one of those things that really NEEDED to be done differently, and I liked what they came up with.

Neat. I, too, made a sorcerous origin for psionics. I'll probably just continue playtesting mine (so far it's worked quite well), but I suggest that if you change Charisma to Intelligence, you make sure Charisma is replaced by Intelligence in multiclass prerequisites, too.

Flavor-wise, I like the idea that psionic power is a trait that just naturally develops as a mental immune system against the madness of the Far Realm. The Gith aren't psychic because living under the mind flayers corrupted and enslaved their minds with aberrant influence; they're psychic...

I've tested out the idea of making the psion a sorcerer subclass and it's worked surprisingly well. But I also think it would be cool to have psionic magic work completely differently from spellcasting. My current ideas are something like this: -Spellcasters expend resources to use their...

I did a supplement for expanding herbalism and alchemy, and it's been fairly well-received. http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?455063-Fralex-s-Expanded-Alchemy-Ingredient-foraging-rules-extra-items-and-more

I'd rather psionics not be from the Far Realm so much as the universe's response to the invasion of the Far Realm. "The Far Realm is a disease, and we are its cure." I thought that was a cool interpretation 4e had.

Thinking about how video games make travel more interesting and encourage you to explore... Maybe the trick is to not make everything accessible at once. Make there be tantalizing hooks the players just can't access right now, maybe they need to come back after finding a key piece of...

I talked about what I'd like to see psionics be a while ago, and I stand by it: I don't really care that much if psionic powers have pseudoscientific or new-agey names. I mean, there's a couple spells that sound like that, too. More importantly, I don't really imagine psionic powers to be so...

Thank you! I plan to PDF it eventually, once I've gotten some good playtesting data to find any unforeseen problems. And also once I get software that lets me make PDFs.

I'm not sure what the purpose of all that extra math is for the "Players Make all Rolls" variant. Can't you just have the players make enemy attack rolls and saving throws? Why would you want to readjust everything so that the DC and roll bonus is swapped? Is it to make it less confusing since...

I gave it a lot of thought, and I think I want to try creating an alignment system based around the four temperaments: -Sanguine: Associated with blood and air, seeks out stimulation and excitement, acts with spontaneity -Melancholic: Associated with black bile and earth, seeks out security and...

I always wondered what would happen if alignment were replaced by the Myers-Briggs personality types. Instead of Lawful or Chaotic, you'd have things like Rational, Realist, or Idealist. I remember taking a test once (I got INFP), and it was uncannily accurate. Or maybe something more period...

I find it helps to dip into tables from other backgrounds and just treat them as inspirations for coming up with traits of your own if none feel completely suitable.

To feats, or not to feats, that is the question— Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of Optimization, Or to take Arms against a Sea of options, And by one's ruling, ban them? I was gonna try to do the whole soliloquy, but got bored. I allow feats, because they are...

Weird, I could've sworn the dimensions of a coin were described somewhere in the PHB or DMG, but I must be thinking of 4th or 3rd edition.

The fact that it's sometimes hard to just talk about something you like with an online community because so many people are apparently more interested in debating whether or not liking it is "justified" or whatever. I've already made up my mind about whether it's good, and I'd rather just share...

Oh, yeah, the DMG aasimar were cool. I changed their damage resistance to lightning, though, because I felt like resisting both positive and negative energy broke the symmetry with the tiefling's fire resistance. Lightning works well, since it has long been a symbol of divine judgement from the...