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Hook for the Heroism Paladin: he's an incarnation of a sort of Jungian / Campbellian Universal Hero. The longer he adventures, the less he remembers about the personal history of this particular incarnation, and the more he settles into the role of Hero and remembers tales of yore as his own...

Or a Truespeaker, if anyone remembers them from 3rd Edition.

I love them both. I have been thinking about a sort of Paladin of Awesomeness concept for a long time. Bard of Talking Good is also very fun . . . could play it as a Greco-Roman orator, or a warrior-poet a la Bragi, or magically-empowered storyteller, or Face from "A-Team," or maybe even...

I think the trick on this sort of thing is to allow some degree of adaptation without completely ignoring the consequences of a disability. And it makes a lot of sense to me that people with access to magic would develop some workarounds / aides where a full cure is not possible. So in...

Just a notion I've been kicking around since I watched "Daredevil" on Netflix: 1. Blinded = disadvantage on attacks, and people have advantage on attacks against the PC. Tough stuff. 2. No official Blind Fighting feat for 5e, but Alert (as clarified in Sage Advice) at least means attackers...

That was nice. Once a month, a little bit of crunch. Not official, but . . . pre-official. Official-adjacent. It seems like the best way to playtest in the year 2019, especially on stuff with a lot of moving parts like the mystic and the artificer. Getting away from the constant influx of...

Always did like the notion of a sage who occasionally adventures, and I like the "guy who memorized the Monster Manual" schtick by Fishlegs from "How to Train Your Dragon." The obvious choices for Expert are probably Knowledge Guy, Scout Guy, and Talking Guy. I feel like there's a good build...

I don't even have the box yet, but I'm really hung up on checking out these new sidekick rules. For younger players --- like my kids --- I have a notion to stat up an expert, with character concept of a know-it-all sage, who can explain monsters and magic and other unfamiliar concepts, but...

Quick additional thoughts on non-rage "rage": In Green Lantern comics, rage is part of the "emotional spectrum" and powers the Red Lanterns. What about alternate barbarians fueled by the other colors/emotions? Avarice, Fear, Willpower, Hope, Compassion, Love.

Thank you. I intend to use that class ability on Intelligence (History) checks, so my PC can think so hard that he injures himself. Maybe a nosebleed?

Can anyone tell me a bit more about this new barbarian path? I understand it's a barbarian that runs on adrenaline rather than rage, which intrigues me. "Xanathar's Lost Notes to Everything Else" has a "Path of the Courageous Heart" barbarian, which supposedly runs on reckless courage rather...

Hmm. I kind of like dwarves or gnomes having ancient lock-whispering secrets, but I guess I would've tried to tie that to the rogue class, as a variant Arcane Trickster. Maybe with your choice of Intelligence or Wisdom-based spellcasting?

Looking forward to some detailed reviews, especially as to the character options (both the crunch, and the nonmusical bard / patronless warlock stuff). So a College of Keys bard is . . . a lock whisperer? Hmm. I guess gnomes might do something like that?

I wonder if "Rogue One" is worth studying for AIME purposes. Get some distinctive characters who are not too obviously analogues for the canon heroes. Give at least some of them their own agendas that tie them into the setting and the overall storyline. Figure out that one critical thing they...

I have a copy. Haven't dug in too much, but that art is just glorious, that's for sure. Prince Valiant seems like a better RPG environment than Pendragon, in some respects. The strip itself is episodic and timeless --- Val will always keep having adventures in the prime years of Camelot, and...

Didn't mean to imply that there were rules for walking across the room. And I'm not really complaining. The rules for journeys and seeking audiences with the powerful both appear well-written and source-material-appropriate. My comment was simply that these are not topics which appear to...

Or you could go the other route and have the campaign take place about an hour behind LOTR. The PCs got a late start and keep showing up shortly after Gandalf or Aragorn do something cool and important.

You're welcome. Good solid word. I've been hip-deep in the Pendragon system for the past month or so, and I think maybe that has some of the same problems. Maybe one way to make this work is a different wizard (aren't there some Blue Wizards who just kinda wandered off to the West?), a...

I have a number of products for this game, both original and d20 flavor, and I honestly don't know how anyone plays it "right." The source material seems to demand a stately, elegiac tone, which I have never seen a group of gamers maintain. Having detailed rules for "walking" and "asking for...

I want a "Lego video game" specialty. Master Builder. Wave your hands at a pile of raw materials, and they go click-click-click, and bam, you done built something. Which I guess you can do with the Artillarist. Why the hell is sanctuary on the spell list? What's the thinking there? Like a...