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  1. Sir Brennen

    Dragonbane general thread

    For those wondering where @Von Ether got that number from, apparently there will be nice graphical listings of spells in each school by rank, showing their prereqs:
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  3. Sir Brennen

    Dragonbane general thread

    Yes! Now someone can brew poison antidotes! ;)
  4. Sir Brennen

    Dragonbane Announces Two New Books

    Chiming in here that I’m currently running the Secrets of the Dragon Emperor campaign and the group has done most of the adventures in it, each with its own boss monster. PCs have gone down (the system uses Death Saves just like 5e, but against your Con, so odds of surviving are generally...
  5. Sir Brennen

    Dungeons & Dragons Announces Horror Subclasses Unearthed Arcana

    The wielder is only part of the equation. Elric was a powerful wizard/warlock having generational pacts with many powerful beings. But Stormbringer was an entity all unto itself. You want to emulate Elric - and all the soul sucking involved - more closely, let that Hexblade get their hands on...
  6. Sir Brennen

    Dungeons & Dragons Announces Horror Subclasses Unearthed Arcana

    Another thing I really appreciate with the UA hexblade is the additional castings of hex. Between failed concentration checks or the hexed target escaping combat, carrying the hex away with it, I hate having to cast the spell more than once in an encounter, especially with the warlock’s limited...
  7. Sir Brennen

    Dungeons & Dragons Announces Horror Subclasses Unearthed Arcana

    I’m also glad to see Accursed Specter go, though not for any mechanical reasons. I just thought it was weird flavor-wise to have this necromantic summoning ability for a subclass about wielding a magically bonded weapon. Talked to the GM when my character was leveling up and would gain...
  8. Sir Brennen

    Dungeons & Dragons Announces Horror Subclasses Unearthed Arcana

    It probably did have a playtest stage, just not in a public UA.
  9. Sir Brennen

    Dungeons & Dragons Announces Horror Subclasses Unearthed Arcana

    As I'm currently playing a XGtE Hexblade, I find the updated class very interesting. Obviously they already split out the Pact Weapon Invocation into it's own thing already in the new Core rules. But as a couple of other people have mentioned, you don't even need to take that pact to be a...
  10. Sir Brennen

    Where’s The Beastmaster Roleplaying Game? Part 1

    No, it’s like Ars Magica, but where one PC is the Beastmaster and all the other PCs are their pets
  11. Sir Brennen

    Pirate Borg -- any of you scurvy dogs have it?

    There’s also some tables in PB to design / randomly generate creatures. There are descriptions next to the values to give GMs an idea of what type of stats would be appropriate when converting creatures
  12. Sir Brennen

    Pirate Borg -- any of you scurvy dogs have it?

    Their huge Kickstarter for Done Among the Dead fulfills later this year, but from Limithron on Discord: Once things for the KS hit retail, though, prices will go up. So they’re encouraging people to pre-order. And if you want to thank them for their generosity, I recommend joining the...
  13. Sir Brennen

    Worlds of Design: Take a Bow

    I think the current rule (at least 2014) of having disadvantage while using a ranged attack in melee works just fine instead of making the archer vulnerable, but my own house rule is that shooting into melee from outside it also gives disadvantage (though a notable size difference in combatants...
  14. Sir Brennen

    How the Monsters Have Changed in the 2025 Monster Manual: Air Elemental

    My guess is affecting all creatures was too strong for the given CR. Since the goal was to keep creatures at the CR given to n the 2014 MM for backwards compatibility in adventures, this is one of the rare cases where they pulled it back a bit (though the damage was increased). Just curious- is...
  15. Sir Brennen

    How the Monsters Have Changed in the 2025 Monster Manual: Air Elemental

    FKA “Sonic” damage in older editions. It’s been a thing since 2014.
  16. Sir Brennen

    How the Monsters Have Changed in the 2025 Monster Manual: Air Elemental

    I believe they are, yes, mainly for new gms who wouldn’t necessarily know what (for example) an eryines or succubus are (categorically speaking), or which is a demon or devil. However, sounds like there are going to be extensive indexes in MM2024, so you can see all the demons and devils listed...
  17. Sir Brennen

    Dragonbane general thread

    In our session last week the party decided to try their hand at hunting for their own food, which involves several checks. Suffice to say, the final outcome was them buying a donkey and loading it up with rations to try and avoid ever having to do that again. This was all after rolling a...
  18. Sir Brennen

    Dragonbane general thread

    So now that I have run a few sessions, I’m considering making a change 😅 One thing that my group is having a bit of a problem adjusting to is the either/or nature of action and defense. I’ve seen the suggestion to allow all characters to choose to begin with either the Defense or the Fast...
  19. Sir Brennen

    Dragonbane general thread

    Yeah, I think it's a good bit of advice to anyone trying any new game: try to play it RAW first to see if you really need the change you're proposing.
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