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Off the cuff compromise: Invocation: Eldritch Eyes of the Runekeeper Prereq: Pact of the Tome Provided you have them as rituals in your Tome, you can cast Detect Magic and Comprehend Languages as an action, ignoring any component requirements. You can cast each of these spells a number of...

Won't let me delete his mistake!

The Path of the Rage Mage from Archetypes of Eberron! One of my favorite 3rd party classes and one of the very few that I have allowed, nay encouraged, in the last two games I have DM'd. Unfortunately none of my players have taken me up on it. Because they are STUPID!! (JK players, you know I...

Ha! So true. I was just noting to a friend that, although I have only written a handful of Yelp/Yelp-adjacent reviews over the course of my life, all but one have been negative. REALLY negative! I was concerned what that might say about my personality.

I'm pretty mixed. I like the tradition and the flavor of the restriction, but it plays out kind of wonky. There are basically four options if keeping it: 1. Non-metal armor that is as effective and priced similarly to comparable metal armor. Result: A "restriction" that isn't; a class feature...

I like the Numenera system of rests of increasing duration: a round, 10 minutes, an hour, 8 hours. For D&D I would probably do 1 minute, 15 minutes, 1 hour, 8 hours. Party members don't all have to take the same duration rest (or any rest) at the same time although probably by the 8 hour rest...

I was also wondering about "always prepared spells" for the Bard, which would be provided by the subclass rather than the base class. For example, it seems like even divine College of Dance Bards should get access to expeditious retreat and primal Lore Bards should get Comprehend Languages...

I'm tempted to think that they came up with this version of stealth so people stop complaining about the original version! Which I'm expecting to come back with maybe a tweak or two. "Oh yeah, you think 2014 stealth is a mess? Hold my beer..."

My hexblade loved them.

I think Preserve Life is too expensive, especially given what it is replacing. I think it should always cost one CD and scale with level. I'm thinking PB-1 which is not a formula used in the game so far so it would probably have to be written "Expend CD to create a first level spell slot...at...

Same. I kept thinking I was missing something. I mean, the dance bard is pretty great overall so that ability, already limited by number of BIs, doesn't have to be amazeballs. But I did expect there to be more than one circumstance where it is useable. Maybe they will change it to "when you...

This is a bit of a tangent, but I've read several complaints that utility magic makes other PCs irrelevant. I was developing a spellbook for a bladesinger last night and I decided to add a bunch of utility spells and let him choose his own combat spells. Apparently I like the kinds of...

Party betrayed by hag...again.

I mostly agree but I might reframe it as "KP took a chance when it looked like the Paizo playbook was going to be applicable, lucrative and possibly necessary for a certain segment of the gaming population." But as others have noted, fewer changes to 5E leaves KP as the answer to a question no...

Hi Shadowdark backer here who missed the Bard livestream. Is there a pdf somewhere? Can't seem to find it.

Make damage always dependent on Strength. Want the precision of your finesse weapons to add more damage? Take rogue levels.

Ha! That's funny because I had the opposite reaction: this system is simple and elegant because the "expert" classes can just be given another ability score in which to become proficient. As has been suggested elsewhere, you get one from your class, one from your background, and then eventually...

I almost always give PCs a few skill options when they are trying to accomplish something or figure something out. If they come across the corpse of something killed by a poisonous plant creature they haven't encountered yet, I'll say something like "anyone proficient in Nature, Survival, or...

My guess is that DMs that don't want to do much work will say "if you play a 2014 class you use the 2014 spells." But I also assume that most DMs are comfortable with a case-by-case analysis of stuff, since most of us have been doing it since XGE and (especially) TCE came out.

Or make a common (IME) houserule official: AB applies to one EB per turn.