Recent content by Laurefindel

Honestly, I’m less concerned about how one can survive a 200-foot fall than how negligible damage a 20-fall is in D&D.

Quickleaf: "They have square beards!" Personally, i can't get past its perfect gentleman's mustache!

I like the current setting and I think it's very close to my ideal: the 12 current base classes plus (potentially) 1 additional class per setting, like Eberron having artificers.

BPS damage? Gone! It’s weapon damage and that’s all there is. Skeletons can have their own special cases where arrows deal half and maces deal double. Spears and quarterstaves deal regular damage like swords, but big axes act like mauls in that case. XP? Gone! Levelling by chapter, with...

I left in the late days of 3.5 when I felt the system was getting bloated and getting too heavy for my taste. Playing PHB-only helped but there was definitive fatigue. I waited in anticipation for 4e but was turned off by the presentation and linguistics (also, it looked like it had even more...

As much as I hate to admit it, that’s how 5e makes it work best. My my ideal ranger would have low-key magic or talents that borderlines the supernatural, without being overtly or blatantly magical. I’d rather give them a choice of abilities within a list rather than impose abilities at set...

Meh, I like the nondescript, subtle, not-quite-human-but-could-fool-you aasimar. I preferred pre-4e Tieflings too for that matter. 2e AD&D aasimars and Tieflings were best, partially because they were more relatable. I know a lot of people are like « yawn, another fancy human or elf race »...

Ranger is the outdoors-y, self-dependant, resourceful skirmisher. The rogue has warrior-ized significantly since 1e thief, but the ranger still possess as much conceptual identity as paladin and sorcerer vis-à-vis their cleric and wizard counterparts. Paladin does a better job of distinguishing...

When I DM, each player rolls one series, including the DM. No rerolls. These become the available stat arrays for this campaign. Usually out of five arrays, two are worth considering taking. That’s for me the sweetest spot between « thrill of rolling » and « fairness of standard array »

Concept is sound. Implementation is well done. Appears to be balanced at first glance, but I’d have to weigh the higher level abilities of this homebrew to the higher abilities of published Druid subclasses. My only concern is that familiar plus egregor plus wild shape plus summons equals lots...

I'd go further: there's a difference between games that have exceptions to the rules and ones that are conceptually designed to give PCs and NPCs different tools to actively deviate from the rules. That, to me, is exception-based design. 3e was designed with a complex set of rules. It had many...

I love exception-based design when the base system is very simple. In theory, the basics should be easy to grasp and to remember, and players and monsters gain abilities allowing them to either a) add to the general rules in certain conditions or b) ignore the general rules in certain...

Why is this not a thing already? Such a promising concept, and one that hasn't have to go blatantly supernatural barbarian at that.

6 days! I wish my threads lasted that long on the front page!

I consider IPs to be two things. 1) it’s a proposition of genre, themes, aesthetics, technologies (including magic), locations, events (current and historical) and characters. 2) it’s a common set of references and expectations between players. Much of 1) must be present for 2) to work. But it...