Recent content by Cap'n Kobold

As you say, D&D has a long tradition of sci-fi elements in it, but is there any particular sci-fi media that your peers are fans of? Television, films, other games etc? Has something caught on in your peer group that might have caused the additional interest?

Not all. Silvery barbs for example, are not available for Adventurer's League.

I think a big decision needs to be made when implementing psionics: Just how immiscible is it with magic? - Although this doesn't necessarily dictate whether Psions are spellcasters or not. Can an astral Construct or ongoing psionic effect be dispelled with Dispel Magic? Could it be picked up...

While I think that Swordmage would be a good additional class, I'm not sure that "Arcane half-caster" would be a good way of doing so. There are plenty of classes and subclasses that get both spells and extra attack and just put up a buff or two before attacking purely with their weapon...

Ideally, what I would like to see is a well-implemented Warblade, as per Bo9S. Done right, that could cover the Warlord class well simply through selection of maneuvers. I'd like an interesting and fun martial class, with a good variety of selectable class features for both in-combat and...

While Wizards still generally get to cast the most spells per day of any long rest caster due to their ritual mechanics . . . . . . I would absolutely support a rebalancing of the class to improve their early levels and reduce their later levels.

Weapon breakage rules, along with other fumble rules generally have the disadvantage of triggering when the character makes an attack with that weapon. - Meaning that the more skilled the warrior, the more chance that they will break their weapon in a minute compared to a complete novice. If I...

I think that picking McDonalds as an example might have derailed the Brand argument, but its not just that Khorvairans know that the Golden Dragon inn will have a reliably similar menu and services wherever it is located. They also know to look for the House Ghallanda seal on any independent...

As PCs level up, the nature of their relationship with the movers and shakers of the setting changes, as they become movers and shakers themselves. Doesn't that seem more logical than high-level adventurers staying stuck as the lackeys of the mayor of a minor village, or whatever else they...

Possibly the visuals. - While most of the weapons covered by D&D longswords could deal piercing damage like a rapier, there is a big conceptual distinction between the smallsword-like weapons popularised by Errol Flynn and Mandy Patinkin, and the broader knightly sword in people's minds...

Regarding Monks, I feel that one of the reasons that the optimisers didn't much like them was that they had very little scope for build optimisation. While a baseline monk might be equivalent to a baseline fighter or paladin, optimised fighters or paladins performed much much better than their...

Its worth noting that if its Elven Chain Mail, the Wizard will need a Strength of 13+ or suffer some penalties.

# Knights generally only wore full harness to actual battles. Even if the knights are on foot, you can't just run away from them until they tire: That's called a rout, and it is something that must be avoided at all costs, since when part of your line collapses like that, so can your battle...

If a Celestial warlock uses the Tomb of Levistus invocation, would they actually be calling on Levistus?

I feel that there is a tad too much polarisation in the state of the discussion currently. I know that is is a time-honoured tradition in internet discourse to set up a quintain at the far end of the arena for you to tilt at, by trying to depict your opponent as occupying an extreme viewpoint...