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SO! On Sunday of this week, for the first time in 30 years, I'm going to get a prescription to medicate my ADHD, again. Everything I've produced has been in sporadic bursts of throwing 5,000+ words at a page in a day because my brain decided I -HAVE- to write that idea down and flesh it out...

Here's why I sometimes run in FR rather than a homebrew setting: 1) Easy Lots of adventures are already written so I can just focus on character and getting player connectivity going for party cohesion with the NPCs of the world. No encounter design required. 2) Lore Heavy I know a lot of the...

Cool. So we're coming at class design from wildly different angles. Heavy Armor Proficiency, d10 hit dice, full weapon and shield proficiency. Take Paladin 1, then Warlock a few levels, then Paladin the rest of the way in order to always have short-rest recovery smites on hand even if you run...

Multiclassing "Works". As a designer, there's an impetus to front load classes with core abilities and features for two reasons. 1) Establish Fantasy and Identity. 2) You can't scale an ability with progression if you don't have it, already. This foments the inevitable problem of Splashing...

I was thinking of that, yeah. Though, personally, I infinitely prefer a shifter to a tabaxi or leonine or whatever name someone wants to give 'catperson'. Yeah, kinda. That sorta thing largely works. It's an issue. Trying to find a balance point between giving people what they want and...

"Why does someone with a dagger get +4 to their damage for having high Dex?" is the same argument, in the end. But yeah. I could see that thing happen, too. That said... I might be inclined to do the no-mod design with the +1 per point over the target's AC because not only does that sound...

I totally get where you're coming from, here, but I'd be inclined to make it a fairly flat progression. Maybe if you miss by 2 or less you do half your weapon damage (no sneak or smite or magic bonuses). And if you hit by 10 or more you deal an extra 5 damage. Something simple to deal with...

It's definitely up there, yeah. So is the 3 Up 3 Down. I'm just saying make it core. As far as DDB goes, yeah, that'd suck. But this would be a 6th edition, and therefore need it's own autoroller website! (Or not, if you wanna just check the rolled value and add in the missing damage if there...

In any setting where XP is granted by killing goblins or accomplishing goals, every Wizard School will have a headmaster who passes out daggers and staves and says "RIGHT! If you want to learn magic we need to go kill some goblins." "But Master, shouldn't we study magic?" "HAH! No. You'll...

'Nother few ideas... 1) Less Heritages/Races Yeeeah I get it. People like having a lot of variety in their heritages. But I find it mostly winds up in making the game a neverending cavalcade of animalfolks with a few planar entries along the way. And since every heritage has their own unique...

Here's the Wolfkin Outcast link. All the links lead to different pages and sometimes websites containing MtG Artwork.

LaserLlama doesn't sell his work 'cause he can't. All his artwork is stolen from Magic Cards and stuff. Which is a -damn- shame. Because his work is kinda great.

Oh, for sure, this would slow things a bit by rolling NPC damage... but I also intend to rein NPC damage in pretty significantly to avoid that kinda thing. And it definitely incentivizes negating enemy critical hits.

So... further thoughts. 1) Crits as Maxed Damage Values When you crit, you max out the damage of your attack, then roll it a second time and add that on top. This ensures that crits are meaningful and strong. No more rolling minimum damage on a critical hit. It also makes sacrificing gear to be...

I also love that his Circle of the Moon option still gets greater wild shape options... But pays for it. You get the Wild Shape surge option for free (or if you have it, pick another) and then to do CR 1 or higher beasts you spend spell slots. On the one hand, this is a brilliant way to add...

Primal Surge, firstly. Rather than gaining Wild Shape they get a battery of choices, and Wild Shape is just one of those choices. That, alone, catapults this into the top position for my favorite Druid since 2nd Edition AD&D. You even get two choices right away and can trade them whenever you...

Right now it's designing because my brain got stuck on an idea at 3am and acted like a disobedient puppy, endlessly savaging the idea while I yell "Put it down!"

Nutty thought: Hit Dice by Size. Tiny d4 Small d6 Medium d8 Large d10 Huge d12 Gnome Barbarians would haaaaate that. I'd have to do the added HP based on classes. +0 for Sor/Wiz, +1 for Artificer, Bard/Cleric/Druid/Monk, +2 for Fighter/Marshal/Paladin, +4 for Barbarian.