Recent content by Stormonu

I can only account for myself, but my wife set aside our last session for "leveling up", with our sessions normally being ~2-3 hours. I had already leveled up at the end of our last session, in 5 minutes - taking my Sorc 3/Rogue 2 to Sorc 3/Rogue 3 and taking the Arcane Trickster subclass...

Ugh? Featureless room? Throw in some elements the players can use or have it used against them. Grells hiding in fog in the air above. A pool of mildly acidic/entangling goo that heals the Mind Flayer. A concealed door the spellcaster can duck through and leave a harmful area of effect...

It's not so much speed for me as it is hundreds of books in less-than-a-book's weight place. Bookmarks in PDFs do help a lot, though.

I will say digital dice can go to hell. You can't microwave them or at the least put them in a boo box when they double-cross you. And it's a lot cheaper to replace a d20 that got stuck being hurled in a wall than a tablet hurled at the wall and now has an unreadable screen.

If I wasn't constrained by backwards compatibility, I'd be burned at the stake for the changes I'd make. Remove classes entirely and just have suggested "starting packages" (and maybe "paths") that mimic selecting a class; abilities become options/feats you purchase with XP and have...

I'm crossing my fingers we won't see a 6E and 5E will remain evergreen with minor tweaks along the lines of 2024 for the future. But, sigh, having seen the burn-out back in 2E with a system that failed to keep up with modern RPG developments it's very likely D&D 5E will become stagnant at some...

In a perfect world, I might agree. Actual table experience, however just negates that. Players have been glossing over or forgetting detrimental rules/effects or flat-out misreading stuff since the start. If you want to watch your game crash and burn, just trust your players and never check...

Many years ago, because of space considerations (and back problems), I started to digitize my library. Even then, I mostly stuck to PDF versions of books. Beyond was the first time I started to use something that was designed pretty much purely for digital use that didn't try to replicate a...

What did the people who bought into the 4E version get when it shut down?

I made a Jester and Jongleur subclass for my homebrew. Some of the kits would probably just be a background - Charlatan, for sure - maybe Gypsy-bard (Outlander? background) and Herald (Criminal/Spy background) and Meistersinger (Entertainer background) as well. Blade I think is College of...

Yeah, I think I like Bridle better too - hadn't seen your post when I suggested it :)

There was a 3.5 book Elder Evils, that I believe had some Cthulhu-isk beings within. I don't think any of them ever grabbed anybody in a way they lasted beyond that book's printing. But I don't mind straight up Cthulhu and his ilk showing up in a Ravenloft book. We've had variations of the...

I could see Chiron or Nessus (both mythological centaurs) as warlock patrons. Pact of the Hoof anyone?

Not all Thayians are bald, tatooed wizards ... and... (In fact, as I remember, the first bald, tattooed Red Wizard I remember was Hazlik, who as punishment had his head shaved and tattooed with woman's tattoos - only women tattoed their head.)