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Man if I find this reference esoteric, I just think about the folks who are younger/more casual than me!

Dunno, she's giving major Keylith vibes. Their character designs are basically identical.

What are some things that can be done to especially highlight the liminality if half-orcs, abberations, and goblins?

I'm so glad you say that! This is going to be the my next topic in Making Monsters Matter. Are there any examples of media that demonstrate this integration for you? For me it's films like Cloverfield, Blair Witch Project, and Annihilation. I'm really trying to do my homework here. I completely...

@Steampunkette what would your costume, mask, symbol, and public rites tables look like for good-ish cults?

So I've been having a lot of thoughts about monsters recently. The Monstrous Menagerie does a lot to help make monsters matter on a storytelling level. That said I still sometimes feel like I drop monsters into a scenario and they don't quite pop as they do in, say, my favorite scary stories...

I co-developed A5e's heritage / culture system. Without going into too much detail, here are some guidelines on creating cultures: They confer a pack of benefits roughly equal in strength to a heritage Most of the features should be with respect to exploration and social pillars. 90% of the...

You may enjoy Sporekeeper!

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The A5E warlock opens a lot of design and story space, so it got me wondering. What kind of new warlocks are y'all thinking about these days, given the changes in lore? A few altered aspects that come to mind: INT or WIS or CHA as spellcasting ability. Is your warlock intellectual, devoted, or...

I love that encounter building with this system is balanced and intuitive. In my experience, they are very firm predictors of the exact types of difficulty mentioned. My problem is that I have dyslexia, and juggling three different charts/lists simultaneously to design my encounters is a little...

The Raven Queen is one of my all-time favorite 4e gods and I wish she were public domain. She is a very suitable undertaker / cemetery guardian goddess. I have a supplement coming out in a few months that actually will entail a Undertaker cleric archetype (and will probably contain other player...

Also, for folks of the Grippli culture (found in MoAR: Wilderness), javelins, spears, and tridents count as finesse weapons! ((Been waiting months to tell the world about this! #threadnecromancy ))

Ancestry & Culture came out before A5e. The concept and motivations are similar, and I highly recommend this book to anybody who likes 05e but wants to deconstruct "race." The forward is also good reading.

For anybody interested to know the outline: Heritages: Frogfolk, Goblinoids, Half-Giant, Spriggan Cultures: Blightlander, Boggard, Dino-Rider, Elemental-Bound, Firbolg, Fomor, Goliath, Grippli, Horse Lord Archetypes: Greensinger (Bard), Sporekeeper (Druid), Stormcaller (Druid), Rescuer...

No, that sounds about right. This is exactly what we mean by the game being backward-compatible! And I address this very point in my guide on the topic. https://www.enworld.org/threads/xethreaus-unofficial-a5e-backward-compatibility-guide.687153/

Yeah, I'm a big fan of this approach. Introduce a few A5e elements at a time (origins, new class, monsters, spells, journies, etc.) and before you know it you'll be running the full A5e system.

Game balance by the inclusion of sourcebooks is not a consideration with the term "compatibility." That said, yes, a lot of WotC spells are overpowered because that is the model they work with. (Power creep incentivizes new purchases, much like we see with Magic the Gathering.) But in terms of...

https://www.enworld.org/threads/xethreaus-unofficial-a5e-backward-compatibility-guide.687153/ Yes, monk/adept experience very few conversion issues. The race question is a little more tricky but it can be done and done well.

At level five, players get access to either third level spells or extra attack, which vastly increases your power overall. There's a part of me that wonders whether the power boost the player feels is because of switching from barbarian to berserker, or from reaching fifth level.