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Nice, that's cool to hear. I couldn't help wanting to invent my own icons immediately after reading that 1st chapter of 13th Age rulebook. That kinda surprises me though. On my first pass creating my own icons, I realized they were very boring with exactly the relationships to one another that...

I don't think @FallenRX would disagree that spells are a factor in daily encounter balance. As I understand it, the thing that's being pointed out in the OP is that THE DESIGNERS calculated encounter balance this way when they wrote the monster manual, CR, and XP guidelines. ---- It's always...

I'm glad you found it interesting. Seeing as the network figure above is a little difficult to use, here's the same info presented in a different way: Relationship of icon A (y axis) to icon B (x axis): archmage crusader diabolist dwarf king elf queen emperor gold wyrm high druid lich king...

I created this thread to suggest a campaign setup—a rubric for creating factions and conflict in D&D games. There are some great ideas in this vein already out there on the internets, such as the Powder Keg or The Price, and this “Icons” campaign setup is one that I have used and like. So, in...

I have a lot of responses to post. I hope you don't mind if some are meta-resposes. First, I think your tenor is meaningfully different in the first and second red recolored statements. I'm more sympathetic to the second one; things can exist in a homebrew setting and still be subject to...

I'm quite curious to know if any additional areas--besides the moonshaes and bloodstone lands, which I was already aware of--were similarly papered over. Also, seconding @Jacob Vardy, it'd be awesome if a high definition full size image of that map exists somewhere.

I'm a big fan of the standardization too (though as @TwoSix mentions, it might not be consistent across class groups or the classes we haven't seen yet). I also like the idea of starting all subclasses at 1st and allowing them to make large changes to class features. I'm generally in the camp...

Wait... isn't there another word that means something like grousing that also starts with 'g' and that famously gets applied to longstanding D&D players. ...anyway... You're right that all we can meaningfully discuss now is what's been released. But everything that's been released so far has to...

Will do! Hope: That when they say warriors are "masters of combat who can deal and endure many wounds", they mean it and intend to have that be a thing that distinguishes those classes as opposed to "these are classes without expertise or spellcasting". ESPECIALLY so for monks. Fear: That...

Ya, it seems like a lot of features which are powerful in ways that the designers likely did not intend have been nerfed. Simultaneously, a lot of very weak feats have been buffed, mostly by making them half feats. It seems to me that this is both good and bad. Good in the sense that it's nice...

So, as of today, we have a new Grappler feat: GRAPPLER 4th-Level Feat Prerequisite: Strength or Dexterity 13+ Repeatable: No You’re an accomplished wrestler, granting you the following benefits: Ability Score Increase. Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20. Attack...

It also only removes disadvantage for crossbows when attacking at close range. Awesome. --edit-- Ah, hadn't read to sharpshooter yet. But the new sharpshooter also specifies "ranged attack rolls with weapons" (with the disadvantage cancelling feature for spell attacks being moved to spell...

We're probably getting to the limits of this back-and-forth being useful @Chaosmancer , but here's my response. I don't disagree, but I'm not especially enamored of this fix (absent info about the other rules that interact with it). For sure, which I mentioned in a reply to Ruin Explorer--but...

Well, as you called out in your first post, rogues and bards (and PCs with the skill expert feat) can get expertise, which makes the skill check math substantially more favorable to a PC than a save or attack roll. After that, you can have a friend cast the 2nd level spell Enhance Ability...

Nice catch; I didn't realize that was the case. If the target got advantage on attacks against the grappler, I was gonna write off the new grappling rules as a complete disaster--but this interaction makes sense. Ya, from the PC perspective, this seems particularly bad. Monsters tend to have...

So I'm gonna sidestep the protracted back and forth about gods, what they are, what the dark/doom-sun cannon is regarding them, etc., and reply to some cool thoughts from earlier in the thread. I immediately liked your writeup while reading it but, upon reflection, I think it would be better to...

Yeah, that's the idea. The +2 (or +1/+1) ASI becomes a feat that can only be taken once, and that, possibly, has class or subclass prerequisites.

Maybe borrow the idea from @Yaarel You could treat +2 to an ability score as a feat--maybe even give it a cool name and some lore. Like most feats, you can take it once and only once. Maybe the feat has class prerequisites (and ofc requires 4th level), like monk and maybe ranger only (paladin...

I haven't tried this. I think if you did, It'd be important to address feat balance. Where using ASIs only lets you avoid the imbalance of feats, using feats only doesn't, even if it makes imbalance no worse. The easiest way would be a for players to have a gentleman's agreement to take feats...