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Yeah, "Swiss Family Robinson" is another one I have not seen but should. Thanks for the recommendation. The 1960 Disney version came out during my childhood, so perhaps I should have seen it in theaters then, but I don't remember it, so likely didn't. On another tack: Rechecking the "Ship...

Matthan, thank you for the kind words and the encouragement. Yes, my inexperience has been one cause of my reluctance; but another cause has been my growing suspicion that I have been going about it bass-ackward, or "back end foremost": trying to build a concept out of parts...

The last time I really tried to take a "stab" (heh) at Sorcerers, it was for 4th Edition. At that time, all I came up with was a set of quotes from the Internet and notes for myself, not any finished product. (I think this was from 2011.) http://old.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id762/pg1/...

What? Is there a list somewhere? :) I'm thinking maybe not? There are reasons: (1) my experience playing D&D is very limited; (2) I'm slow to build characters, so others may hop in before me; (3) I'm not nearly as imaginative a writer as you lot are; (4) I don't know whether I would fit in with...

But I didn't forget Old Zef! His Wizard Archetype is "School of Conjuration," not the special "Ship Mage" archetype that QL created and posted as one of his "Seafaring Archetypes." Edit to add: I had mentioned Caillou in connection with the Ship Mage archetype because unsung had given Caillou...

Please excuse me for once again jumping into your thread here, but I wanted to pose a couple of questions: (1) If you can get Kid and Caillou back into play, you'll have your seven, right? If CB and unsung are reachable (not always a given), couldn't the party just go forward that way? (2)...

SunGold has asked for more comedy gold. Do we even need it? The title of the thread is a reference to the "Hitchkiker's" series, which in itself was comedy gold. Doesn't that cover that need for us? If Hussar is right that "TheDip" is/was a sock puppet of another alt-identity, then that means...

These are both good ideas: How about giving neither of the domain spells as "extra spells known," but giving both of them as "additions to the Sorcerer spell list for you?" That way, those spells are available to be known by the individual Favored Soul, but no individual Favored Soul has more...

Re: "Favoured Souls are a subtype of Chosen in the Forgotten Realms." That explains why Elminster is so renowned as a Sorcerer instead of a Wizard, I guess.

This brings up an issue I wanted to address earlier, but forgot: How necessary is it that the Favored Soul even be a subclass of Sorcerer? If it doesn't have the same spellcasting mechanic as the Sorcerer (arcane spells), then shouldn't it be more like a Prestige Class (or even a stand-alone...

I was trying to find a way for the Favored Soul to be similar to the other sorcerer subclasses with regard to the extent to which each subclass gained major or minor features. I feel I'm not being clear about this; and I'm guessing it's due to the late hour here. (At my age, my mind is clearer...

OK, that does answer my closing question, above: It's too much complexity for too little flexibility. I think I finally got it this time. . . .

One way to go back to having Favored Soul Sorcerers with domain magic (now that I have thought about it a little bit longer): Do it this way: (1) Favored Souls may choose their known Cantrips from any cantrip on the cleric spell list or the sorcerer spell list, but no more than half of any...

Yes, I did read the full description before posting. Thanks anyway. . . . So if I create a Favored Soul Sorcerer PC named Grabal the Wondrous using the second or third version, that PC will be able to learn four (4) Cantrips and two (2) 1st-level Spells as a 1st-level character. Since this is a...

The first one is mostly a Sorcerer: the only Cleric spells it gets are the Domain spells. In the other two, the "Divine Magic" feature allows a Sorcerer to take only Cleric spells for that PC's entire career, if the player decides to do that. To review: FIRST VERSION: (1) Choose a domain and...

The last set of playtest files that I have from the *D&D Next Playtest" series was dated 19th September 2013 in my file system; and in that one, the Druid's Wild Shape was: (1) Two words, not "Wildshape"; (2) Only available starting at 2nd Druid level, not 1st Druid level; and (3) Limited to...

If having Dushku play The Lady is the price we pay for getting it made -- and Dushku's own production company, after all, is the entity that has optioned the book series, so she kind of gets to go with that -- then I say it's cheap at the price. (Those books came out decades ago, and no...

The results of the Twitter poll are now final: ___ 22% Spellcasting _X_ 68% Shapeshifting ___ 10% Animal companions

"When 'Omer Smote 'Is Bloomin' Lyre" by Rudyard Kipling (link to poetryloverspage) When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea; An' what he thought 'e might require, 'E went an' took -- the same as me! The market-girls an' fishermen, The shepherds an' the...

I was hoping Joe Cocker would get a chance to play Croaker (yeah, I know: more a singer than an actor), but it's too late for that now. "Cocker" as the "Croaker" would be an obvious draw. . . . :)