I really wish I'd been the one to come up with the name "Tombpunk". Wow, that name is just incredible. I haven't read the rulebook yet (although I will) but I think I know exactly what it's like from that one word alone.
The new Hexblade isn't much better then the last one. The subclass still revolves around another type of Hex, which is redundant, boring, and fussy. They tried to fix this by making the one type of curse simultaneously castable with the other, which is a nice start, but doesn't really touch the...
A shame, because Castle Whiterock is awesome. Poor Chris Doyle doesn't deserve to have his dungeon tainted by this debacle. Whiterock for 5e would have been an auto-buy for me before all this. Now, I don't know.
I'm thinking about a melee warlock for an upcoming campaign, but I'm struggling with all the different ways to build it, none of which seem ideal. The 2024 version might be just as good or even better than the 2014 version, but it's certainly not as simple. There are a lot of choices to make.
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It probably all depends on what kind of agreement was already in place between Goodman and Judge's Guild when Bledsaw went full Nazi. And unfortunately, that's something we will probably never know.
Best case scenario: Goodman was already on the hook for licensing City-State and came up with...
I wonder if we'll ever know for certain whether or not Bledsaw got money from this deal. Or, since there was allegedly some prior agreement in effect, more money than Goodman was already on the hook for.
Because that's what really matters to me. In spite of my distaste for this project, I'm...