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Yeah. There's a sliding scale of tension vs apathy. If the players feel like they're one mistake away from death, you're golden. But if they feel like failure is the only possible outcome then you risk tension being replaced by boredom and disinterest.

I mean, it kind of sucks but it's not like Strahd being a vampire is a secret. Divine Sense having that spoiler isn't true in the 2024 PHB, incidentally. The 2014 Player's Handbook wasn't written with new players in mind, not really. It was a Hail Mary designed to draw back people who had...

Maybe on the coast between Juniril and Hultail. No particular reason, I just like lakes.

Yeah. You have good reasons to use your time elsewise and you're uncomfortable with the lewd content. Those are reason enough, but if the combat is such a slog you're not even having fun then you have even less incentive to stay.

Bigby is the one who was canonically human but reincarnated as a gnome. Kwalish's heritage was never established until LLK.

Neat. Though talorien did say they wanted monsters and this doesn't have any.

I think my core concern with this idea is that the d20 is already a very swingy die and priviliging the bigger diversion from the median makes the game even more unpredictible. If you're okay with that, then by all means give it a try.

Kobold Press has already made one!

A thought, instead of Spell Draining what about a spell corrupting effect. Like these creatures don't drain the magic but corrupt it and tie a random prepared spell to the Dark Weave, making its effects unpredictable and dangerous. Maybe your Burning Hands will work, or maybe the fire will...

Yeah I thought the pacing was weird even when I saw it in the theatres and liked it quite a bit. It's a flawed diamond to me, which is more than I can say for TROS... which basically doesn't exist in my headcanon.

I hear tomorrow is his birthday.

I feel like you're stretching a bit here. Even the Full Casters (especially Sorcerers) got more powerful in 2024, if not as much of a boost as Monks and Fighters. It's not incorrect to say that the ceiling for single-class builds has also been raised, Paladin excluded. And while yes, using the...

Yeah this definitely sounds like a rebooted version of Clusterspace with the background details moved into the mythic past (so long ago not even the gods remember). It never made sense to me that the civilizations of cluster space grew out of the remnants of what came before when it literally...

Previously I used rolling 4d6 but in my most recent campaign I switched to a non-standard array of: 17,15,14,12,10,8

....That's a distinction without much of a difference.

I can't say for sure since I've not read Memory's Wake but it did seem like something quite similar from a blurb I saw on the book.

There was lots of buzz for Spelljammer when it first launched, actually. But it got mixed reviews and was quickly overshadowed by the controversies about lacking ship combat rules and of course the hadozee debacle... and then a few months later by the OGL debacle. The setting could be great but...

I don't necessarily think making changes is a bad thing in and of itself. God knows there were some elements of 2E Spelljammer that haven't aged well. Or, hell, were godawful even for the time (Aperusa). But outside of Bral, the 5E Spelljammer material felt empty. It made space feel small.

Sounds basically the same as the average 2014 5E campaign to me.

I mean I have some problems with 2024 but I just... change those things I don't like back cough counterspell cough