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Yeah, I know... it gets really annoying :p

I'm playing a 10th-level storm sorcerer in an ongoing campaign. We're playing in a fairly high-power game (all characters have a 20 in their primary stat, and some have 20s in their secondary stats as well). I'm generally happy with how the character turned out, except that I constantly seem to...

Meh. I think the 'lg' combination is generally difficult, for most (I'll say indo-european, I'm not really familiar with other groups) languages. It doesn't roll easily off the tongue. But that's the point, IMO, it's a demon (tanar'ri 😜), their name for themselves probably wasn't meant to be...

I miss the hyphen (or is it dash? :unsure:) in the new version of the name... Barlgura just looks weird, all smashed up together. I know it's a matter of personal taste, but I still don't like it and feel it's one of those things that were changed for no reason whatsoever 🙁

Wielding One Power in the Wheel of Time series is similar. It's something that could be adopted to D&D, if one is inclined. I think it's a pity D&D never delved deeper into the whole magic system, and I preferred stricter divisions between magic (or 'magic') types (arcane, divine...

No issue, really. I'm just not into Lawful Good. That's why I said I was indifferent to them. Still, I'm all for the Great Wheel that includes them. I'm a big fan of 2e Planescape, and if it were up to me, few -- if any -- changes should be made to the setting, including the outer planar races :)

I'm all for more celestials. While I was always indifferent to archons, I enjoyed 2e guardinals, eladrin and rilmani. Also, while not an aligment exemplar race, I though hordelings (from the Grey Waste) were a fantastic outer planar race. I always imagined them a bit like something from Jim...

She's also mentioned in the Artillerist description, as "an unlikely yet key member of House Cannith's warforged project".

If the psion has to be fitted to one of the exiting classes, I think the sorcerer makes a much better fit than the wizard -- apart from one detail: psions have usually been depicted as Int-based casters. However, other 'mental' stats also played a role in determining their overall workings...

I'd like to agree with that, but the bit that worries me are the psionic spells bearing names of well-known psionic attacks and defences from editions past. That could mean that i) the psionicist wizard is intended to replace the 'classical' psion, or ii) that any future psionic class will use...

Funnily enough, I thought of monks as a sort of entry-level psionic class since 2e days. I remember discussing about it on the old ADND-L messageboards. And now that I think of it, all monks I've seen in actual play were my characters... and I'm not a fan of the wuxia/martial arts genre. When I...

The only option that seems applicable in this poll is lemon curry... We've had less than 10 psionic characters since I started playing (back in '94), but that's way more than some of the PHB classes (rangers, generic clerics (2e), bards, druids, most specialist wizards, monks, and barbarians...

I do hope so. I like the soulknife, psychuc warrior seems meh, flavour-wise... and I don't like the arcane tradition. I'm aware that it's personal, but that's the way it is. I also don't like that the wizards of this arcane tradition are called psionicists or mentalists. Makes me wonder what the...

Haven't read it yet... but psionicist as the wizard arcane tradition? Major disappointment :confused:

The Great Wheel was the default cosmology in 1e and 2e. I'd go so far as to say that it was the only supported cosmology, but I'm not 100% sure about DL (I'm thinking of Dragonlance Adventures harback here -- a sort of 1e/2e hybrid, IIRC). I'm fairly sure that no D&D setting in 2e used...

No problem here. I'm aware that I'm actually on the losing side, as the RAW support the no penalties approach. With that in mind, it's a bit difficult to defend my position, as one has simply to point out the rules (which I actually did) and all of my arguments are irrelevant. But to cut it...

Hi @Hawk Diesel, thanks for the interesting reply. I'm on my phone now, so a proper reply will have to wait until I get to a computer (it's really difficult replying to posts via phone), but I can address this bit. Actually, a warforged skirmisher can't have expertise in disguise. And it's not...

Here I disagree with you. An envoy warforged is a warforged. There's nothing in the racial write-up of envoy that would suggest that an envoy with a built-in disguise kit gets any kind of special benefit when disguised as a member of another race. They get a built-in disguise kit (however you...

How would you handle a halfling trying to pass as human? A gnome trying to pass as half-orc? An elf trying to pass as dwarf? If you'd give penalties/disadvantage to these checks, I'd say they're appropriate here as well. If, OTOH, you don't think penalties are appropriate when a dragonborn...

One of my houserule ideas since I first read 5e, is to increase the damage die of Simple weapons by one category (i.e. 1d4 becomes 1d6, 1d6 goes to 1d8, etc.) for characters proficient in Martial weapons. That would essentially make Simple weapons (sort of) equal to Martial weapons, and would...