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And we got a look at the flower in action. I’ve been wondering how best to represent the flower in D&D. Fire Bolt, Sacred Flame, Produce Flame…? Well, based on this latest trailer, I think Produce Flame is by far the best fit, given its ability to be held in hand to produce an illumination...

By far my most frequent pick over the years were elves. And I have a soft spot for halflings, or hobbits as we prefer calling them at my table (IP be damned). It’s just so cool to ponder about the fact that a cross between any creature and a halfling always results in a 100% halfling offspring...

That’s what first came to mind for me as well 🤣 This post is such a classic. Noble background with a bat cave. The most important part is which 3 items is he attuned to? One of them must be an artifact-grade utility belt. But then what? The bat mobile, probably… The third one is giving me...

Whew, this thread blew up. Somehow the notifications stopped coming and I didn’t realize the page count doubled 😅 … thanks for all the interesting takes to all those who chimed in! A few in-line responses below… I guess this is highly dependent on each individual’s frame of reference. I...

Found this so far: Spells in JSON A ton of stuff here (maybe everything?) in YAML, though the data structure is geared towards integration in a specific system and maybe a little difficult to use for other purposes (still, probably useful if you’re willing to massage it a little). Monsters in...

Thanks for putting this together! I didn’t read through it all so I can’t comment on the accuracy (or lack thereof) but I commend you for the effort! I wonder: has anyone come across a machine-friendly version of the SRD or at least some of its sections? In JSON, or SQL, or (God forbid) XML…?

I think 3.5’s "iterative attacks" where the 2nd attack of the round had -5 penalty, the 3rd had -10 and so on was unnecessarily complicated. So I’m happy they got rid of that… On the other hand, I feel it’s a bit silly that only the fighter gets more than one extra attack in 5e. Sure, a fighter...

Overall, I think 3.5 is my favorite edition… it was very flexible, which gave a lot of opportunity to express a lot of different character concepts. Multi-classing in 3.5 is a bit better than in 5e, IMHO. Tying the ASIs to class progression in 5e is a design flaw IMHO, as it leads to weird...

I assume you mean, by "explosive recovery", the fact that in 5e you regain everything on a long rest, and even a short rest can get you a lot. As opposed to previous editions where, essentially, there were no short rests and a long rest gave you even less HP than a 5e short rest (but still gave...

It’s a sensible argument, but in practice I do not think it was really a problem. Let me explain… The problem would be significant if we took 5e and just split stealth and perception into two skills each, while keeping everything else as is. But in 3.5, there were many other mechanics that...

I’m personally torn on this one. On one hand, I recognize that it streamlines the pace of the game. But on the other hand, I feel like we’re going back to low resolution graphics 😅 In 3/3.5, the dice roll would actually tell you whether the person sneaking was heard or seen, rather than simply...

Makes sense. BTW, a campaign or DM with an "easy long rest" policy doesn’t necessarily mean the games are easy. Likewise, a DM making long rests hard doesn’t mean the game is automatically hard. What I’m getting at is that it affects the gameplay. If the players don’t match their playing...

Sure, I guess what you’re saying is that players can’t long rest anytime since they must be at the keep to do it. But if they have the flexibility to get back to the keep whenever they feel like, then the extra constraint is actually moot, is it not? Which means, therefore, that it still...

When hearing arguments about which class or build is stronger, there are often a lot of assumptions. Some obvious ones may include: Susceptibility to MAD: if using standard point buy, then MAD is often a big issue, whereas if using some custom stat rolling method, then it may be different...

Dark Sun was such a great setting for pushing players (and DMs!) out of their comfort zone. Equal opportunity slavery, weird new half-races including the famously sterile Mul, having a Medium-size insect in your party, climate change-provoking magic, a ruling class made up of 10000 years old...

That’s a good point! Maybe it doesn’t work then. Or maybe it only works with cantrips which make you do an attack (e.g., True Strike). Or touch cantrips? (A touch counts as light, I guess? EDIT: probably not, based on what I've been reading...) In any case, re-reading the Nick property, it...

BTW, if I’m not mistaken, no one yet mentioned taking the War Caster feat to convert Opportunity Attacks into any spell with a casting time of an Action. So that can take us to 8 cantrips per round, situationally. Or 7 cantrips + any 1 Action casting time spell (which is probably less...

In what sense? So that it doesn’t stack? If so, then it’s probably easier to make it somehow "identical" to the EK War Magic, since it doesn’t grant an extra attack of its own. In that way, you could have a situation where you pick either EK or WofMA, and stack it with either BS or VB’s Extra...

This Mystic Monk torques the multi-cantrip build to 7 cantrips / round 🫣

Welp… the latest Unearthed Arcana has yet another ability for replacing an attack with a cantrip! The Warrior of the Mystic Arts Monk subclass gets this 6th level ability: That means a 19th level character (BS6/EK7/WotMA6) could theoretically get 3 cantrips per Attack action! The rub is...