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Why would wizards want lichdom? They can get most of the benefits through combinations of other spells without risking a ritual that kills them and alters their personality...

Technically using a focus obviates the need for material components. If you don't need to use coins to cast the spell, then obviously you don't need to place them anywhere in particular.

I'd be really interested to see how the "different experience tracks for different classes" works in practise. Of course you'd need to make some changes, like not amalgamating the spells per day charts and the like...

Neither is adventuring in general though... I mean which is worse, having to spend half your time in an illithid sanctum muttering and mumbling, or becoming a lifelong thrall? Using a focus overcomes that. Good point, and one I had overlooked. And if you told me you and four of your buddies...

http://donjon.bin.sh Lots of random generators. Want a random mega-dungeon including creatures? Done! Want a whole world map? Done. Want a single encounter? etc. Actually the one I like the most is the calendar generator. You can actually keep track of long-term time!

On a similar note: if you want a knock-down drag-out fight, then just keep adding encounters to a day until you start hearing players saying they're running out of resources.

Ways to take a bard's inspire ability seriously: 1. Adventuring is a grim and gritty life. A bit of levity reminds you that life is worth living, and taunts can genuinely distract, enrage and confuse a foe. Hit points, saves and attack rolls are such vague concepts that they can represent pretty...

Of course the flipside is to make the PCs tax collectors. You've asked "what makes high level PCs pay their taxes?" That's the answer: other high level PCs. After all, if the king is going to hire them to kill the dragon and give them the majority of the loot plus a reward, they're likely to...

So... your players have goals and they achieve them then? So where's the objection to milestones coming from?

But you usually do have some sort of progression throughout, it's just that the players decide their path through it. Even the most dynamic and plotless sandboxes have the players setting goals and hopefully achieving them. Otherwise we're both kind of right - milestone XP doesn't work because...

Protection from energy and protection from evil and good as rituals would be "why would you not have these up all the time?" sort of spells, so I think that making them rituals would be a bad idea. Magic circle is tied to a location, which is why I think it's fine. Dream is problematic, because...

Why? Milestones are just "you achieved things, so have a level". Unless your description of sandbox adventure includes grinding out XP on low challenge creatures, then meaningful things to do in the sandbox effectively are milestones already.

A barracks that lets newcomers in, shares around the booze they bring and then all go to sleep at the same time with only isolated groups of sentries with no real alarm system kind of expects to be destroyed this way... I guess I find it hard to believe that any such barracks has: 1. Nobody...

It made sense from a point of view where non combat encounters were effectively not factored into your resource usage for the day... but to my mind that was a bit problematic in itself, especially since it wasn't done particularly consistently. I do wonder what the criteria used to decide this...

Well, it makes sense that a cleric doesn't automatically get contact other plane, and that a wizard doesn't automatically get commune, and that only the most atypical ritual books might contain both. Certainly as much sense as any other spell-list divide that exists.

It's only suboptimal if your metric for optimal is based in a campaign that is exclusively combat. Otherwise: this guy will be awesome. I just wish he was allowed to take ritual caster twice - once for wizard, once for cleric (or druid)

Nothing new, nothing special, nothing well thought out. There is one and only one valuable thought in the entire thing, and that's the concept of having XP to level be a nice round number for easy math. But it's only a valuable feature if the DM is ad-hocking experience, which the rest of the...

If you search for earthdawn dragons, then you'll get an unpublished book that has some ideas for dragons in that setting. Earthdawn dragon breath, for instance, has a range up to 600 feet and burns until either you make a will save against it, dispel it or the dragon chooses to put it out, the...

The problem is that your change just makes for a flat-out better weapon. Nobody who could wield a longsword to any effect wouldn't wield your weapon. Even if you raise the minimum on it, you're basically saying that in exchange for boosting your hit and damage with strength melee weapons, you...

Why does recharging my abilities make me thirstier? This is kind of the same flaw with exhaustion and anything that it's used for apart from starvation and thirst. In general I think that the current exhaustion rules are a shemozzle, and the best thing to do with them is to restrict their usage...