Recent content by nevin

4. Is correct. Preservers simply limit the magic they draw so there are no visible or horrific effects but they still draw power from the life around them. In original dark sun most people didn't like Preservers any more than defilers. Probably because any preserver could at any time go to...

I can guarantee most people I served guard duty with in the army didn't have the alertness feat.....or anything similar..

to be fair the cannibal halfling stuff is what killed the fledging Dark Sun last time. (Que the it's not cannibals if they are eating humans they developed from thier own DNA). Hopefully they learned the lesson of taking stuff too far from that. But yeah there are reason's Dark Sun wasn't a...

nope never mattered at all. In fact I use it against them when they are chasing bad guys so why would I be upset when they do it?

Part of me would like to see a new Dark Sun set. But it wasn't as popular as most people seem to remember, and I figure it'll be so watered down I"ll just end up borrowing some mechanics and using my old stuff if I ever find a table that want's to play it. As much as I love Dark Sun over the...

and pirates and brothels and Thay and other kingdom's trade in flesh as well. Trying to avoid Bad guys because they are bad really takes away story options for hero's who want to be hero's. I've never ever understood the idea of scrubbing the Nazi-esque bad guys out of the worlds. That...

and if you ignore attunement, or do DM special magic items it can be fixed. It's easy enough to fix with experience. But a lot of DM's are short on that .

nice avoidance of the fact , that it only works that way with a DM who adjust for the junk dev creation in the first place. New DM's who don't know shouldn't be expected to do this. Also most stat increases in special classes can be justified to fit 3 to 5 of the stats. A lot of these...

Depends on the table and how much the min maxing occurs and how high the game goes. If you only play lower level games it's a bigger deal than you realize. I know tables that don't play past 6 level or so and +1 is huge. But the main point is "Trap and flavor" junk that add nothing...

nah the law of consequences will fix that either with Barbarian learning they suck and keep screwing the party or they piss off some important NPC and die. This is only a problem if the DM refuses to DM properly.

no it's not L2P when you want to play cool story and your other players want to Min MAX. That's called "WRONG TABLE" which is where the most players get lost permanantly. A good DM can and should adapt and fix that kind of junk without being asked. "That's called L2DM. just to match your...

new doesn't seem to work for them. Like most big companies thier layers of management, (including hasbro) , seem to be a problem in that area.

and there is nothing more miserable for a new player who read the cool idea and made the character because it was cool to find out that every other player with more experience min maxed and they are always second fiddle. It's the pathfinder trap of giving bad options to players and calling...

I'm a big fan of lair actions, mythic actions and other just DM needs help with the high level abilities pc's have actions to balance out the fights and give every pc an actual challenge and cool necessary part of the big fights. Unfortunately that does lengthen planning timel

flip side don't let spell hate kill the wizards fabricate montage when he or she tries to do some cool high level magical item or such.