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Get Ready for Martial Artistry: A Compendium of Combat for 5e Games Hey, folks! I'm launching my Kickstarter for Martial Artistry on June 15th! What's it contain? Four new Heritages, three new Cultures, and two new Backgrounds! These new heritages are designed from the start to be options...

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1908006909237473451 Meanwhile, someone asked the Elminster "AI Bot" on the official FR Discord and got a dramatically different answer that feels less "Forgotten Realms" and more "Evening News"... Ed Greenwood wins this time, in my book!

Core D&D has 16 languages. And they all suck except MAYBE one. That's not to say that it 'sucks' to speak a specific given language or whatever. Or that people speaking Goblin being incapable of communicating with people who don't speak Goblin is somehow unrealistic. I'm saying that, as a...

So... for silliness's sake and background: My spouse and I play City of Heroes. And we decided to watch the 1983 film Krull in-character with our superhero characters. We streamed the movie onto our computers in separate rooms and watched while typing in-game to each other in character. Out...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/strangersights/splendid-souvenirs-magic-items-for-5e-and-advanced-5e?ref=project_link I highly recommend this book for your 5e and 5e-adjacent games! DM Sarah is an absolutely fantastic writer and game designer. She worked on the A5e books for EN...

There's an old joke that goes: In Heaven the cooks are French, the policemen are English, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian, and the bankers are Swiss. In Hell the cooks are English, the policemen are German, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and the bankers are...

I'm not a fan of the Illrigger. But it's mostly because I can see what it -could- have, and maybe should have, been. 1) The Name Illrigger. What an absolutely terrible name. It has no cultural connection, no linguistic derivation, it's a whole cloth creation to define the class... Which I kinda...

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/505296/Paranormal-Power-The-Esper-Class-and-Powers It may take a little while for them to finalize the approval for the "Esper Class and Powers" file, but I'm making them available for free to the community. Enjoy!

So over in Snarf's most recent thread on sexism in gaming (which is a really -good- thread and you should absolutely check out some of the stuff being said, there), we wound up in a kind of brief aside this morning about Dark Sun and how you "Can't do that setting, nowadays". I will die on the...

Written by Chris Danielson, the paper was presented at the Popular Culture Association national convention years ago and I just read it... and I find myself going "Yeah, that tracks." This paper expands upon Gary Alan Fine’s study of fantasy-role gaming (FRPG) groups and examines gamer and...

Couple notes about the interview: 1) Ancestry and Culture was produced by Arcanist Press. (Forgot the name during the interview) 2) WotC messed up with the Warlock (in my opinion) by deferring the Patron to 3rd level. (Got asked without much chance to really follow up on it) 3) The DHSM and...

Just throwing this out there for anyone to use in any work or at any table. Little sci-fantasy thing I was considering this morning during an insomnia fit. Space is really, really, inordinately, impossibly, big. Firing weapons across massive distances, even using predictive algorithms, is...

So last night was the first time I've ever used a Dragon in a campaign with my spouse, our friend @GuyBoy, our friend @PJ Coffey, and our friend @Xethreau. And I kind of had an effecting experience on them because I practiced an important narrator tool that some folks don't know. It's very...

Pretty much every attempt I've seen to make Gish or Gishlike character class has used the Fighter as the base and then added on spellcasting. Whether that's an Eldritch Knight in 5e or a 4e Swordmage or the massive variety of 3e Prestige Classes that require 3 levels of fighter and 3 of wizard...

Could you scry on someone with a +4 or +10 if you were in love with them? After all... your heart belongs to them. If someone said that at my table? I'd -absolutely- give them the +10. Any time someone uses representational magic to interact with arcane magic I'm -deeply- compelled to provide...

Or, at least, it wants all of it's characters to turn against their deities... Don't get me wrong! Shadowheart going from Evil Sharran to Good Selunite is totally reasonable and fair. It's certainly an interesting direction to take the character and provides an excellent story. Not harshing on...

So... rattling around in my brain for the past year and a little more is the idea of doing a fantasy western setting. There's -tons- of Pseudo-Medieval Europe settings, a fair few Steampunk Europe settings, and a couple "Outlier" concept settings like Eberron which really don't feel like they...

Since @Selganor suggested splitting it off into a separate thread, I'll go ahead and do that. And, first post, I'm posting some combat synergy ideas. Most of these rely on characters using an action to attack or cast a spell, or spending a reaction to initiate the synergy. Whether this is...

1) There would still be slavery and cannibalism. Heroic characters would not participate in Slavery or Cannibalism. They'd be the province of the wicked, the cruel, and the desperate. Mul would not be a "Slave Race", specifically. They would just be Mul. Thri-Kreen wouldn't be cannibalistic as...

... This might actually be great.