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One thing I'll admit to not liking is the attunement limitation. the attunement requirement for some items is nice in that it's a logical way to prevent someone from just grabbing a newly acquired magical doodad and having full use. In some cases it makes perfect sense. But limiting it to three...

Indeed. And not all things that in a book or movie occur necessarily need to be made special abilities. Some are merely the outcomes of a successful skill check (paraphrasing). Ifd I have the Blood of the Kings in me and I go to where my ancestors lay buried, and they come out en mass, do I not...

Agreed. Some of those could've been made into inherent abilities instead.

1) Every race gets bonuses, no penalties. Yes, I can understand. It's a bit of a reaction to 3rd Edition where, if you got a +2 to a physical ability the designers would then assign a corresponding penalty (and then some) to offset it. Even if the race didn't really have that discernible...

A spell-less ranger, a druid-ish ranger, and... Yep, room for them all. Just need to build them properly. Give the ranger a little more combat perks (or at least an extra feat like the fighter), then make the spellcasting ranger an archetype (ala eldritch knight, etc.). Not so eff'n hard. Heck...

I've never been a fan of the Drizzzt essays. Too often an essay leads to a moment of back-patting self-righteousness. It may be good for getting a general idea of what's in his head but I filter most of it out or just skip on to the rest of the book, but I don't care for the emo Dear Diary...

Fair enough. I just needed to look at the class a bit more. So...Barbarian (Berserker) 13 or Bar 8 (Berserker)/Rog 5 (Thief)? (Whenever crunching brain cells on other questions, character-building keeps me occupied just enough.)

Perhaps because people see the Rage ability as some mindless Hulkish-ish manifestation as opposed to just digging in deep,. uttering Crom's name, and going all-out. Good point. As for single vs. multiclass, I guess I wouldn't bother playing in a campaign where I can't be more than one class...

An option that is so commonly used it's a de facto standard component of the game. But why split hairs. In any event, we can build the same character through different methods, with varying costs and levels of success. If not for the Rage feature Conan would be the perfect 'barbarian', then...

"I just can't see Berserker fitting Conan. When did that guy ever get exhausted much less regularly after a battle?" If I had my way there would be the Barbarian as a 'lifestyle' class and contrast that with a trueberserker, which is what barbarians are more or less stuck as within the game...

If one wants to bump him up, one could make him a Barbarian 2/Rogue 2/Fighter 8 (Champion). Perhaps give him Keen Mind or Linguist feats. That would make him closer to his 'prime'. I try to avoid adding too many levels and additional classes, it's too easy to stat-out to level 20 by looking at...

True, but I hate the rule in general on how bonus feats and attribute points are handed out. In any event i wanted to first stat him at a lower level range and go from there.

My own -half-arsed contribution: Conan Human Male, N(G) Barbarian 2/Fighter 6 (Champion) ST 18, DEX 14, CON 14, INT 12, WIS 14, CH 15 Feats: Grappler, Resilient (WIS), Skilled (**), Tavern Brawler Background: Outlander(*) Skills: Acrobatics**, Athletics*, Intimidation, Perception, Sleight of...

Not really irrational if you enjoy going to a nerds' paradise and seeing people, etc. I can be the same way. Easy enough to buy online but it's good to take a drive and get out.

Al Qadim (AD&D/FR) allowed for pantheist clerics, clerics who worship one god exclusively, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qadim Really, this whole cleric/deity thing is not as difficult as some make it to be.

That's what I was thinking. Look at today's real world religions. Most are based upon one god/deity, but within that belief system there are multiple sects. I could see where one group versions an aspect of Deity X in a specific way (and gaining different power or domain) while another takes a...

As an aside, it's been written elsewhere that the Eldreth Veluuthra (FR, elven supremists) were taught the means to harness nature in order to power their spells without resorting to worshiping a deity (since, essentially, the elven pantheon has by-and-large rejected their activities and have...

The world of Conan is one where there are multiple gods and manifestations, whether supported among the masses (via clerics) or not. But what passes for clerics worship one god exclusively. So....

Killing Lolth was decades ago, in 1E AD&D. While stats for avatars have been provided in some editions (such as 3rd Edition FR), avatar/god-statting has been set aside in later editions. If anything, deities have been moved further out of the limelight. So something like that today would be as...

That is so true. Most those portions in the novels seemed so...juvenile. For lack of a better word. No doubt other people felt differently but to me it's that one friend you know who has great stories until they start talking about their escapades. And then it's like, "That's nice. I have to...