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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 9264781" data-attributes="member: 6704184">I don't even know why I dislike lodge, I just find the name silly in a bad way. Fraternities doesn't work in modern dnd where gender identity doesn't determine your place in society and what interests you can pursue. The silly overwrought names do have an appeal, though.Yeah absolutely.In a different paradigm I'd be down for something like that, but tbh it would just be annoying in a 5e dnd game, where every other caster gets to choose what spell to use in the moment.Philosophy ain't bad. And yeah the 5e Alchemist subclass seemed to not know what it wanted to be, in the context of the limited scope of what dnd wants to call an alchemist. Luckily I don't have to care that the transmutation wizard exists, and I can include stuff like chrysopoeia.&nbsp; proto-chemistry is only one type of alchemy. Newton wasn't especially into making elixirs, he was into numerology, maths, and physics, which at the time were...alchemy. Alchemy is just science, before science was called that. Optics was invented by an alchemist. Toxicology was invented by an alchemist. Alchemy included esoteric mysticism, metallurgy, chemistry, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, pretty much anything you could call proto laboratory science, and other stuff I'm too tired to think of. So it isn't &quot;absorbing&quot; anything, it's an alchemist. As for medieval nomenclature, I really dislike using olde tyme spelling, but archaic terms are nice when they don't feel forced or dorkey. Society isn't bad, for instance. My Assassin uses guilds, bugt tbh that could change.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 9264781, member: 6704184"] I don't even know why I dislike lodge, I just find the name silly in a bad way. Fraternities doesn't work in modern dnd where gender identity doesn't determine your place in society and what interests you can pursue. The silly overwrought names do have an appeal, though. Yeah absolutely. In a different paradigm I'd be down for something like that, but tbh it would just be annoying in a 5e dnd game, where every other caster gets to choose what spell to use in the moment. Philosophy ain't bad. And yeah the 5e Alchemist subclass seemed to not know what it wanted to be, in the context of the limited scope of what dnd wants to call an alchemist. Luckily I don't have to care that the transmutation wizard exists, and I can include stuff like chrysopoeia. proto-chemistry is only one type of alchemy. Newton wasn't especially into making elixirs, he was into numerology, maths, and physics, which at the time were...alchemy. Alchemy is just science, before science was called that. Optics was invented by an alchemist. Toxicology was invented by an alchemist. Alchemy included esoteric mysticism, metallurgy, chemistry, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, pretty much anything you could call proto laboratory science, and other stuff I'm too tired to think of. So it isn't "absorbing" anything, it's an alchemist. As for medieval nomenclature, I really dislike using olde tyme spelling, but archaic terms are nice when they don't feel forced or dorkey. Society isn't bad, for instance. My Assassin uses guilds, bugt tbh that could change. [/QUOTE]

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