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Oh I was talking the old zines from 1e, stuff referenced in The Elusive Shift. I didn't have personal experience with them, I didn't start til revised 2e 😆 Though I have since connected a few copies of said zines.

Could be by design, And that's the intent- a DMG2 or ADMG. The genericized MM NPC thing seems to be designed with the intent of releasing later books with customized templates to put on these generic statblocks. Make an "assassin" a "Drow assassin" by adding the Drow template.

Yeah I believe a lot of the classes released in the 1e-era etc were intended as NPC-only, but understandably players see something cool like a Crystal Mage or an Audiomancer and it has a full class build-out, who wouldn't want to play it?

Are classed NPCs, like "a full on barbarian," statted or called for anywhere in 5e material?

It does seem, sometimes, that 5e NPCs can't play by the same rules if they want to compete with 5e PCs. I don't love stuff like Arcane Burst for NPC mages, but I can see why they'd make it a thing- and why I'd use it as a DM. I always found 5e PCs punching way above their weight with 5e...

Do you give most ultravision creatures some sort of sun-sickness? I considered doing something similar to what you've done here, but another GM's ideas inspired me to add sun-sickness to said creatures. Basically they get some stacking penalty if they spend too long in the open sun.. the GM's...

Yeah, it changed when IGN acquired Humble Bundle years ago, I don't think many folk notice so I point it out where I can (y)

Just a reminder that you can (and should consider) adjusting your donation when checking out a Humble Bundle.

Quite interested in those reviews!

I've only started Level Up A5E characters at levels 1 or 2 because they get so many features! I've started 5e games at lvls 5-7 before, but A5E is another beast...

At the end of the session, you go back to town- there's no choice. It requires either a weird narrative mechanic (you're in a toxic magi-zone and can only spend so much time out adventuring before you're yanked back by your automated detect-o-porters), or everyone just accepts the conceit to...

I tend to do the same, but most of my players, new and old, seem to want to go into DnD with builds prepped n' ready. I guess I understand, they look at all the options and get ideas and want to fulfill those ideas. But I can still be curmudgeoney about it!

I just tell herald players "you have an exertion pool that works like the regular martials, except it's equal to your PB, not PB*2." Regarding more precise wording, if you wanted to write it up properly, just use other martials' feature. Because the herald's exertion is the exception, the...

I did not know that there was a Prince Valiant show, I only picked up the collected comics a few years ago.

Yeah, I'm quite aware that Heralds end up having a ton of exertion if they burn all their spell slots for it, but that's late in the game, at high levels. The big pains I've seen from heralds that caused the player to multiclass was because early on, they get pretty burned on exertion for...

This review of The Grey Knight gives you a good idea of themes that are center to the adventure. I’d screencap or quote but I think the review deserves some views 😆 https://akhelas.com/2024/07/19/review-the-grey-knight/ But I think one big thing is the knights themselves, their vows and...