Recent content by Remathilis

Bring it squishy. I'm pretty sure the cleric would have the advantage even before you factor in things like Twilight domain. Two words: Divine Intervention.

My now completed Ravenloft game was based on the Magnus Archives and each "arc" (sometimes a session, sometimes two or three) had an title. THE MESONOXIAN ARCHIVE 1. Autobiography (opener) - our protagonists are given an invitation to a strange and prestigious library. 2. House of Lament...

The new Eberron book is a patch for Rising from the Last War, not a full campaign guide again. I actually prefer that it's a slim book with just the mechanical updates and some additional advice rather than reprinting the guide to Sharn for the third time.

I think it was an issue where the Core Rules were getting a little long in the tooth, but 5e itself was not. Minor mechanical adjustments aside, most of the 5e library works fine. The big differences are in the PC rule updates (species and backgrounds and rejiggered classes), the bulk of the...

To be perfectly clear, if the necromancer's turn started taking longer than the rest of the group put together, I'm going cleric and turning those skeletons to dust. I get more Channel Divinities than necromancers get high level spell slots....

The point was to provide a revised version of the options to replace the old options. For example, if I am using a 2014 monster in a 2024 game that casts sleep, I don't want to figure out it was changed to slumber or nappy time or whatever.

D&D 2024 "failed" the same way the latest Marvel movies have "failed"; anything that isn't a resounding success and record-breaking return is a failure now. High end brands (be it Marvel, D&D or whatever) are held to almost unrealistic expectations based on prior performance. Costs to produce it...

The whole point of backwards compatibly was to keep your old books relevant while updating the crunchy parts. Rising from the Last War is 90% usable: the lore isn't changing meaningfully, much of the magic items are fine, all the graphs and tables still work, etc. what 2024 has changed is all...

Yes, you can have a combat between a beastmaster ranger with his pet wolf, a shepherd druid with 8 summoned pixies, a necromancer and his 6 skeleton minions, and the creation bard using 2 animated objects vs a horde of hobgoblins, their mounts, a leader and their ogre battering ram, but if EVERY...

And the game has been getting better at removing those kinds of things from the core gameplay of the classes. Which is why the paladin doesn't have to be a goodie two shoes to keep his powers, the thief got rebranded to rogue, and barbarians stopped needing to kill wizards on site. We don't need...

I will admit it's the one I'm the most curious about. Khorvar are descendents of elves and humans who first met in Khorvaire (hence the name) but they are far more a true breeding species than a mixed blend. More akin to a tiefling than a half-fiend. But mechanically they were half-elves since...

Warforged, kalshatar, shifter, changeling, Khorvar (Eberron half-elf)

Have fun playing your Solo game then, because you obliviously won't need the rest of the party.

Can I say that if you're classes primary feature requires you not use it all the time to be fair to the other players, it's not a good feature. You can't design around the if idea of giving a character an op ability and then making them promise not to use it or use it responsibly.

The feats are designed to replace the subrace style design since subrace isn't a thing anymore. As far as I can tell, the only mechanical elements not seeing a revision is a few weapons and possibly some monsters.