Recent content by Stormonu

The SAGA version and associated books I think did much to cool people's interest in DragonLance, I know it did so for me and that the game line associated with it did fairly awful. Sovereign Press tried to keep the line alive, but they were a speck compared to WotC - and weren't getting any...

My initial thought too was make it a subclass, but honestly having it as a background is probably the better way to go. Then depending on the ninja's specialty you can use various classes - Rogue (infiltration and assassination), Fighter (highwaymen, ambushers), Ranger (sniper assassin)...

Heh, this made it almost 10 years before getting Necro'd - welcome to the boards, @Hattly82 ! Yeah, I think the original could use some slimming down. I agree I wouldn't use full poker rules unless the whole table was involved (preferring 1-3 skill checks to resolve in most other cases), but...

How could you forget half-elves in Dragonlance? (yes, I count 2014 D&D, if that matters)

Yeah, I caught onto that issue when doing my homebrew. I changed Proficiency to start at +0, +3 at 10th and +6 near 20th. I also changed Expertise to grant x1½ (rounded up) and Mastery to give x2 (and ditched Reliable Talent). Anyone can get Expertise (in certain skills) and Mastery can't be...

I'll gladly take a crop of short adventures I can run in 1-4 sessions. I bought Tales of the Yawning Portal, Ghosts of Saltmarsh and Quests from the Infinite Staircase (and got my wife Golden Vault, Dungeon Delve and Candlekeep Mysteries) because of that (well, moreso because the first three...

re: arehem dash areheff root! I have to say it as I was just talking to a coworker about a prank pulled on a linux newbie... rm -rf as root

If spells had rarity, you might be to factor that into the cost of magic item creation too.

I definately prefer carrot to stick. In the homebrew I've been working on, I try to make abilities that have tradeoffs where I can. However, in a few places I have put in (race) abilities where you can opt in on a penalty to gain a benefit elsewhere. For example, rather than force halflings...

If you enforce the "have to have free hand to cast spells", that generally cuts out shield plus shield, short of the character burning a feat to get War Caster. But the base rule of having a free hand is one I keep forgetting/ignoring and I suspect many other tables do the same.

My wife does index cards for our youngest (who is autistic), but someone still has to take the time to write it - and have legible handwriting (that's a real problem with one of our other players).

I personally think anyone expecting Seasons of Champions having anything to do with a Dark Sun release is going to be sorely disappointed.

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...