Recent content by Laurefindel

Oh I’m aware of the genre. I just never heard the name. Often I referred to them by name as a reference, like space 1889 is Victorian space explorer, or something else is like space 1889 but without the Victorian aspect.

It may be right there but I never heard of it before or occurred to me. I like it! But that’s what I mean, genres are being redefined and specified now. Give it a few more years and space-fantasy will be an established genre. It probably is already, or else gaining momentum since not enough...

Yeah, I don’t see it as sci-fi either, but genres are in a flux of definition and redefining now. Sci-fi used to be a sub-genre on fantasy, and fantasy itself use to be basically any fiction that couldn’t realistically happen on earth. If you included elements like overt magic or races/species à...

True, fans can barely agree on how to run levels 1-13, I bet that no two groups would do 13-20 the same… That said, WotC could provide examples on how they would do it with the experience and wisdom that they have, and their expectations on how their game should work mechanically speaking.

Yes, I agree that there could be more support, but I’m not sure if that support should come in the form of a high-level adventure. A section in a DMG2-style book, or a dedicated make-you-own-high-level-adventure book, or even a series of essays and guides on a website like D&D beyond, would work...

The fact that published adventures stop at level 11-13 makes a lot of sense to me. In my experience, and in what seems to be many others as well, level 11-13 is the tipping point where the game starts to need to cater to your specific party composition, powers, and playstyle, in order to provide...

First, I like my monster book singular. Not 15 books. Not 3. One should do. Then I hesitated between setting specific and general. I want general by meta-setting. In other words, I’m not interested in having a monster boon that will do D&D, Star Wars, Aliens, and Shadowrun, even if they all...

Yes. I’m not necessarily saying Hunter’s Mark used as 2014 RaW, but I think the ranger should have been the ‘marks’ class in the same way the paladin was the ‘smites’ class.

Hunter’s Mark was/is a bit wonky, but whereas the paladin was a burly combattant with auras and smites, the ranger should have been the agile combattant with terrains and marks. But I probably like horizontal symmetry more than most.

So… Abeir?

Indeed, both probably have the same potential amount for “Achtually” comments…

No, it’s too late for that. But it could (should?) have been ‘it’ from the start.

Also, use Arcane Abbeyance as a 1-hour ritual for non-ritual spells. 1) cast spell as abbeyed spell 2) take short rest 3) recover spent spell slot with arcane recovery 4) cast spell with abbeyed spell

Uncalled tangent here, but there are more than five continents? Or perhaps North America is considered a separate continent from South America, but then that would leave Antarctica as the forgotten continent by Hasbro? Or is Eurasia back to being two continents now? What’s the consensus these days?

Hesitating between… 1) A game is complete when the producers published everything that is necessary to play the game and provided all necessary guidelines (implicitly of explicitly) for fans and 3rd parties to expand upon the rules and setting(s). and 2) A game is “complete” when the appetite...