Recent content by Baron Opal II

A world with a large city with strongly characterized neighborhoods, like Shadowrun's Seattle. Along with this some distant locales to explore like the Mystery Flesh Pit or the Long Stair. I wouldn't care about races/ancestries. Some notes on reinterpreting classes and a handful of new subclasses.

I considered this back in the AD&D days. The Rod of Seven Parts is one of my favorite artifacts, and the three sentences of lore about the Wind Dukes gave ma a lot of design space.

One thing I find impressive is that each map can be fairly self-contained, and I don't see any "seams" on the large map.

I've been told that it comes down to They are far more dangerous that your typical herbivore. They are rarer than typical prey animals. Their meat is less appealing than typical prey animals.

Randall mentions that there is a maximum velocity that a fluid can pass through a tube. Depending on the characteristics, a pipeline (straw analog) that digs down into a magma chamber (Niagara River analog) may not necessarily create a volcano. That way you can send a heat exchange line down the...

Huh. I wonder how applicable this is for, say, drilling into a magma chamber for a geothermal energy plant? Aside from drilling complications, perhaps this means you won't automatically create an inconvenient volcano?

There are plenty heavy martial artists from the Shaw era of martial arts movies. They were all highly flexible and athletic. Names escape me at the moment. Sammo Hung, perhaps? Anyway, I hope it's an engaging story and they do well.

I use a slot system for encumbrance, 1 slot/item per point of Strength. The typical "adventurer's backpack" weighs 6 "items". Unless it's something like a crown or plastron I don't worry about weight for jewelry. For art objects, your average 4-6" statue of stone or metal is an item. Paintings...

?? We had dwarf clerics in 1e. They were meant to be npcs per RAW, I think, but we rolled with it. Having a dwarf cleric with high Con being nearly immune to poison at the get-go was fun. :)

I wonder if that will become a considered option around episode 4-5? You've had a good run, but still time for a replacement to shine.

Well, it's not reaching the Bledsaws at all until all the previous claimants have been paid. Which, hopefully, things have been structured that there will be nothing left.

No, it's sarcasm given comments in WotC threads. I remember him with some other voice actors doing a live play of a zombie apocalypse society moving into a recovery phase. It got cut off early, but was interesting.

That would be interesting, especially if dwarves can develop tremorsense. (Which they can, in this edition?)

Plenty of deaf actors speak intelligibly. If the patterns of sound is important to channeling and shaping magic, then coaching and practice should suffice. A deaf practitioner may even make discoveries that show that certain modulating tones are what is important, and that words in cadence are...

Well, I would say goodwill rather than good publicity. I completely agree on the lack of foresight. They are certainly taking s ome bad publicity on the chin. However, they are potentially helping a few hundred people get back an investment that didn't pan out. That counts for goodwill, I would...