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Hermits. The creation of a magic item requires the assistance of a muse, a sort of ethereal spirit which manifests in a geographically uniform fashion. They appear at a random location in space-time, then latch onto the nearest mortal mind in a burst of inspiration and mystic insight. From there, th...

Dominions 5 is a strict improvement on the prior titles, having more content and an active playerbase for multiplayer games. There's no reason why you would pick a prior version.

My first instinct is to put the vault behind some sort of 'twelve keys in twelve different rooms, all turned simultaneously' mechanism, with a different hazard and a different guardian in each room. Each guardian has the key to a different room, but cannot leave their own room - the PCs have to acqu...

What do you guys think the life expectancy would be like for the people of a generic D&D world? I imagine their incredible access to healing would mean infant mortality and death to disease would be massively lower than in our world, but the D&D world also seems to have a truly extravagant ...

Something to remember about player affiliation: no matter how you write the setting, whichever side the PCs on is going to be the sympathetic side. If your game is 'social commentary on the nature of post-colonial societies' and you are having all of the PCs be the armed agents of the former imperia...

The useful insight here is that since DoA picks the higher number twice and the lower number once, it produces higher results than picking the lower number twice and the higher number once (AoD). Picking higher numbers more often produces higher results, even if it superficially seems like advantage...

A much more useful answer: Ask the person who used the word. Their response will be far more informative than anything we can tell you.

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The usual way to 'put down walls' is to draw a line on whiteboard/giant piece of paper that you're playing on, surely? If he's just saying 'don't bother with miniatures for fucking walls, why would you even want those, they're such a hassle' then I am in agreement, but I didn't use them in the first...

I think there's a difference between offloading the work onto the designers (who at least theoretically put some effort into coming up with good monsters for their manuals) and saying "Hey, what if instead of doing things that take effort, you half-assed it instead?" I would watch a video ...

Well, don't just tell us you like it. Explain what it is and why it's such a good idea.

The EK archetype has two things going against it, action economy anti-synergy (at level 5, you get the option to make 2 weapon attacks in a single action, but then at level 7 you can do 1 cantrip and 1 weapon attack, but then at 11 you can do three weapon attacks, but then at 17 you can cast a non-c...

The paladin's smites operate off of spell slots, not specifically paladin spell slots Starting at 2nd level, when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can expend one paladin spell slot to deal radiant damage to the target, in addition to the weapon’s damage. The extra damage is 2d8 fo...

It is my experience that at least two DMs will permit 3rd party material if it is published in a full colour printout with fancy art, but will not permit 1st party material when it comes in a black and white PDF that says "Unofficial Playtest Material" at the top.

Wait... but if I'm the evil goblin, then there's no issues with stabbing fools and taking their stuff, right? That is still bad, but if you are officially an evil goblin, you are expected to do bad things and presumably the metatextual entity dictating your actions is on board with being a bad pers...

It's a fucking crazy game conceit that you want to stab multiple different people every single gaming session and still be absolutely assured by the game that you are the good guy. But here we are so let's do the legwork. There are numerous correct ways to do this (I'll even list some of them for y...

The best portrayal of goblins I've seen in years is in The Wandering Inn, in which the Goblins are viewed by the general public as being horrible little murder-ape vermin who need to be exterminated for the greater good, but who are actually illiterate refugee bands who wander the countryside eating...

The actual reason to make Warden its own class instead of an archetype is that the PHB Ranger sucks ass and the UA Revised Ranger is 'unofficial playtest material' which some DMs will stubbornly refuse to let you use. Instead of trying to write your archetype in a way that fits with two different ve...

It's rationalwiki. They reflexively take the anti-religious position on every topic, regardless of the merits. Admittedly, reincarnation is almost certainly incorrect. But the fact that rationalwiki thinks that is largely accidental. It is instructive to note that their page on reincarnation spends ...

I think we should carefully consider the possibility that DenizenKane has had their account hacked. I see no other reason for someone to go from posting nothing but dumb questions about dicepool math to being a right wing parody account.

As far as AS1 goes, there's basically three 'combat' roles you care about: Huge Physical Guy, Non-Physical Attacker and Muggle Wrangler. Someone who can fight a room full of guys with guns, someone who can bypass the absurd soak pools on a Kaiju/Troll/Lycanthrope, and someone who can do something ab...

YouTube and Facebook are not required to censor misinformation, they do so in order to improve their reputations. They are both relatively modern platforms (less than 15 years old for both) which rely on user-generated content. This naturally poses the question of which users exactly are generating ...

The most common request I got when running After Sundown was to make Icarids and Androids more Mad Science flavored. To that end, here's the Technomancy discipline rewritten according to Kaelik's new version: Technomancy Technomancy is the modern term for a very old discipline designed to disguise m...

The two biggest changes are simplified character gen (instead of point buying with 1000 points, you pick from options off of lists, then point buy with a much smaller number of points) and the distribution format (instead of just putting free PDFs up on the internet and soliciting tips, they sell it...

Maj wrote:What are the chances that the US breaks up because of this?

Given that the Spanish Flu didn't manage it, very low.