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I think the warlock is one of the better designed 5e classes, I think it would be great if the cleric and druid mechanics were more like the warlock than the wizard and sorcerer (less spells and more themed powers).

I see a patron relationship as a possible story hook, something a player and DM can make important if they want. I am not a fan of forcing it to be important if the player does not want that kind of story. I also feel a patron works better as a story element the smaller the party, the same as...

5e has had options in the default fiction since the 14 PH for having the patron be an arcane battery who is not even aware of your existence or who is completely indifferent to you. THE GREAT OLD ONE Your patron is a mysterious entity whose nature is utterly foreign to the fabric of reality. It...

Are you talking about sorcerers with deception, persuasion, and intimidate class skills, high SAD Charisma, and spells like charm person or enhance abilities? Or warlocks with high SAD Charisma, charm person and suggestion spells, and deception and intimidate class skills? :) Anybody can pick...

There are also a ton of not-shadow monster shadow effects in D&D. Some of them have you or the target's shadow do various things or conjures up shadows from nothing. Plus to complicate talking about things there is the classic shadow monsters lines of spells that made real seeming monsters with...

Shadows in D&D are weird and quite varied across editions. Basic, where undead explicitly make no noise, has them as not undead. OD&D has them as explicitly not undead as well. 4e puts them as shadow type and explicitly not undead too. AD&D-3e +5e has them as undead. OD&D has them as...

Microlite20 Spells (113) Microlite20 Undead Skeleton: Animate Dead spell. Undead Zombie: Animate Dead spell. 4th-Level Arcane Spells Animate Dead: Creates level X2 HD of undead skeletons or zombies.

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By D&D typically do you mean just 5e which only added artificers to the list after the 13 PH classes? 4e was full of new classes in supplement after supplement as was 3e. Even the 4e PH added warlord and the 3e PH added sorcerer as new ones for the new editions. OD&D to AD&D added a ton of...

Microlite20 Monster Quick Statistics (91) Microlite20 Allip: ? Bodak: ? Devourer: ? Ghoul: ? Ghast: ? Mohrg: ? Mummy: ? Nightwing: ? Nightwalker: ? Nightcrawler: ? Shadow: ? Skeleton Tiny: ? Skeleton Small: ? Skeleton Medium: ? Skeleton Large: ? Skeleton Huge: ? Skeleton Gargantuan: ? Skeleton...

My experience was different. I had plenty of fun in core only games but you still had CoDzilla and batman wizards in core once you got past low levels. I liked a lot of supplements, particularly Unearthed Arcana, to tune the game to taste and enjoyed playing and running high level games with a...

There is also the dual stat adventure Black Monks of Glastonbury which has some 3e mechanics for doing Ars Magica in D&D. I believe the big Ars Magica Order of Hermes edge against other spellcasters, the Parma Magic or Magical Shield magical skill, is done in 3e as a feat which gives spell...

My understanding is that while flexible verb noun casting was the big innovation, it also had levelled spells like D&D (just not vancian slots and spell levels generally going up to 40 or so). So while you had magical skills in Creo (create) and Ignem (fire) and could spontaneously come up with...

My memory is that abilities in Ars Magica are similar to ability modifiers in 3e. AM Mages are designed to be more powerful than grogs (warriors) or companions which is different from the 3e goal of all classes being balanced against each other. AM balance comes more from the troupe style play...

I don't think that definition of a god quite works. You can have major gods like the Olympians in Greek Mythology, but then you also have things in Greek Mythology like Nymphs who are minor nature gods and can be a personification of a specific land feature or even a specific tree. There is a...

Things on the sorcerer spell list that stood out to me (Mostly stuff that was previously druid). Looking back I realize a couple were in the 14 sorcerer as well, so this is more a 5e difference than a 24 one. I played and DMd a bunch of sorcerers in the 3e/Pathfinder 1e era (a lot of NPCs) but...

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King of Atlantis so king of Camelot makes sense to me. Never seen him as leader of the Justice League though.

I will keep looking but it seems to be 33% off at $20 for the PDF right now.

Lots of ways to go with Arthurian themes. For Sir Clark I'd probably go with something more emphasizing goodness.