Search results

Yes they were. Paladins were added to the game in the 1st edition PHB in 1978, Solomnic Knights (as a class) were added in Dragonlance Adventures (1987). Soth appeared before then (around 85), but with a Deathknight monster stat block. I think they may have started to notice that the...

Insufficient cynicism makes people vulnerable to manipulation by influencers, politicians, fraudsters, cults etc. It concerns me that people are so critical of cynicism. It's like vaccine denial.

Not just me then! A lot of it was recycled by Durlag's Tower in BG1 DLC.

1st edition was a toolkit. It was designed to be heavily modded to suit individual tables. Hence the word "advanced" in the title.

I’ve watched first two episodes of Shadow Lord. It’s another genre pastiche - in this case film noir.

Asajj Ventress while in full night sister mode.

It’s not a particularly powerful in the hands of the PCs though, since monsters rarely get resurrected. And as pointed out, D&D is asymmetric. NPCs don’t get the same stuff. As for horrific - great, makes for a good story. It’s based on Stormbringer. Which Elric has from early on in his...

Both apply, but in D&D terms, the line is traced back to the anti-paladin in the 1st edition and blackguard prestige class in 3rd, to oathbreaker in 5.0. And WoW took it from D&D. But WoW is starting to fall off the pop culture radar now, with BG3 better known. And the best known was a Jedi...

Sure. It's also bad for anyone who doesn't hit people with weapons. And the lich is a mechanically bad choice for anyone, but particularly for non-casters, since it's strongest ability restores spell slots. Poster boy Soth wasn't a paladin. Nothing forces fighters to have a bad charisma (14...

It's not limited. You don't need anything to take it. It may not be an optimal choice, neither is lich.

Nope, wizards and some clerics. (and by implication, sorcerers and warlocks, since before those classes existed they would have been considered wizards). None of these are presented as a good mechanical choice. There are plenty of better feats to choose. You would only choose them for role...

Lore (which has been around since 2nd edition at least) says Death Knights start out as paladins, or occasionally fighters or solomanic knights. Not rangers, barbarians or monks. These guys love their full plate. And if they were wise or smart they wouldn't be seduced by the dark side anyway.

It's supposed to be an anti-paladin, why would it not use charisma as it's casting stat?

NB, from the text for the magic item Blackrazor: -DMG

It’s clearly aimed at paladins. As you would expect, since that’s how most death knights start out. Ideally, you want to be a martial character with spell slots and charisma as your casting stat. So you could use it with a bladelock or martial-focused bard as a paladin-alternative. If you are...

It has been discussed before that assassins need to have some way to block resurrection. But this ain’t easy to get - NPCs don’t get feats. And, of course, whilst you only need four PC class levels to qualify for this, you might want to hold off, lest the being who was expecting those souls...

Not really, no. I only go to known well established sources. Far too easy to be sucked down a rabbit hole if you aren’t very careful. EN World is not free of course, it exists to sell stuff.

They have never designed around multiclassing, they have always been caveat emptor. But it would do no harm to suggest the attack be switched to strength in the feedback.

I wouldn’t read a free magazine. If someone goes to the effort to make something for free it’s because they have an axe to grind. I would be interested in a modestly priced magazine that paid its contributors.

You get what you pay for.