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The most flavorful part of the sorcerer class for me is the Metamagic. It implies a deeper connection with the power than someone who just studied specific formulae known to create specific effects. If we're trying to improve the sorcerer, maybe find ways to make metamagic more appealing? Give...

Interesting. How did this work out? How often did people take the injury? One thing I would do if I were to use this rule is either edit spare the dying or invent a new cantrip that ends any one effect magical healing of 1st level can end, without actually restoring HP.

The important thing about wounding crits is that it applies to both players AND monsters. Monsters rarely recover from 0 HP, so without that rule it would feel like using the table serves only to hurt the PCs. This way, players get a chance to dismember and deocculize their foes. I'm thinking of...

Saelorn : Hmm, that's a valid point. I still want to test the rules as-written before making changes, but that definitely sounds like something that could be a problem. If it is, how about I make it so that you can't suffer a second KO-wound until you recover at least half your HP after the...

This is just an idea I want to try out that uses wounds to make HP loss more meaningful than just a score decreasing. -HP doesn't represent any one particular thing, but in this case I'm interpreting it as a measure of how much "fight" someone has left in them. Normal hits are just grazing...

Fun fact: I translated the runic text at the bottom, and it came out to "THIS IS PHOTOSHOP'S VERSION OF LOREM IPSUM [rest of lorem ipsum text]" As a Gravity Falls fan, it's weird to see coded messages in the background of things that really are just for decoration.

I really love the art in all these books. The cartoonish modrons marching across page 66 of the DMG feel a bit out of place, but that drawing is so adorable I don't actually care. It's cool that they're not afraid to use wildly different drawing styles. And yeah, I'm also very happy with the...

This is a really cool story about how a 3.5e adventuring party trained an entire town of commoners to fight an army of undead (see "The First Tale").

I think it's that people are used to designing adventures on the assumption that the characters will all be grounded, so a flying PC is seen as so unexpected that it's just kinda assumed it will ruin SOMETHING they've planned. Plus, we're humans, so to us being able to fly has always been viewed...

Yeah, I think the only time this even comes close to actually bugging me is when it feels like the schools of magic weren't so much invented by mages to classify spells as they were discovered to already inherently belong in certain categories. Like how some spells identify the school of magic...

I myself did not notice the DMG said this for some time, but a consumable magic item actually costs half the value of a permanent one. That's why potions of healing are only 50gp. Don't forget about the Magic Item Details tables! They're my favorite tables, they make it really easy to make...

So you'd be interested in campaign settings getting a treatment similar to the monsters in the new Monster Manual? Taking a bunch of old stuff, a bunch of newer stuff, and finding new ways to look at them/interpret the stories they have? If there were a CS book as inspiring and detailed as the...

April Fool's is about pain and suffering, not inconvenient browsing!

Actually, Luigi being a cleric makes a lot of sense. After all, in both the games he stars in he's fighting undead. And yeah, it's definitely an ax from what I can tell. I'm surprised Bowser didn't wield hammers in his character sheet. He must not've been the final Bowser after all.

Create or destroy water is actually a transmutation, oddly enough. I guess you're not really creating or destroying anything, and are just condensing moisture out of the air or vaporizing liquid water?

On the plus side, I've heard a lot of good things about the new Princes of the Apocalypse adventure.

I have a problem. I started this game with just one other PC, then later convinced a bunch of my friends to join in. But the extra party members just kinda merged into my body and vanished.

What would they be taught to do, though? I would think getting better at investigating, say, crime scenes would depend on learning about forensics and such. I can't really picture a scenario where somone learns how to investigate things better without being taught new knowledge for a specific...

Heh, well now we come to the whole "how exactly should I use the knowledge skills" thing. Different tables treat them in all sorts of different ways. In my case, I don't limit them to just remembering things. Let me try to explain my point of view better. The reason I have a problem with...

Despite what you might think from the hidden text in the first post, I actually like the fact that necromancy seems so out-of-place next to all the other schools. It tells a fascinating story about the implied history of necromantic magic. The way I see it, certain kinds of magic were just...