Recent content by Remathilis

They all live in the same 20 level dungeon, don't they? [emoji6] Honestly, look at something like the Caves of Chaos. That's half a dozen humanoid species living in pretty close proximity to each other, sharing or competing over resources, before you even touch the PC races in the Keep. Those...

Credit where credit is due, Gary was not a tremendous fantasy author (I've seen his fiction) but like most DMs just kinda pulled what he knew. People wanted the LotR races, so he found as many LotR drawbacks as he could to keep them from taking over the game. (Spoiler: he failed). Even Ed...

Humanity in ascension while Demi humans in decline (heavily fed into with class restrictions and level limits) that was lifted straight from LotR.

That is Schrodinger's Monsters, existing in a state of existence and non-existence until the DM needs to fill a dungeon or roll a random encounter. But the default assumption is that they all exist in the world even if you never encountered one. To wit, I've never used a bronze dragon, but they...

Ah crap. I remembered the quote and incorrectly cited the speaker. Clarke, not Asimov.

You're free to do what you want with your game, but I lol a little with the Mos Eisley comparison whenever it gets trotted out. If I crack open the Monster Manual, there are dozens of humanoid monsters, including monstrous humanoids. There are a dozen dragons and half a dozen giants. And that's...

For many years, I considered Greyhawk the default setting for no other reason that so many names came from Greyhawk:Tenser, Mordenkainen, Vecna, Bigby, Boccob, Ehlonna, etc. They were in the spells and magic items of the game. There are no Elminster spells in the PHB, no Dalamar named magic...

I'll take that as "I can't".

Yeah, I'm all for letting your freak flag fly, but I'm not sure I'd be down for Catherine the Greating with a Centaur...

Sure, it would. First, you take twenty levels of abilities and crunch them into five, and then you are removing any of those classes subclasses special abilities to boot. Put your money where your mouth is: design me a fighter that can emulate a warrior of shadow monk in only 5 subclass...

I'll make sure to tell Issac Asimov that.

I'm sticking the Styes (GoS) in the Sea of Sorrows for that reason.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Agreed. I personally ran into this problem trying to find anyone who opted to update Souragne from plantation to prison cf VRGR. Everything I saw repeated the same tired antebellum jealous slave owner version. I did find someone who mixed the old domain info with the new origin and ended up...

No class is necessary. Heck, classes themselves aren't. But Rangers have existed since OD&D and been a part of every core since 1e, so I kinda feel they earned their spot; as much as bards, druids, or paladins have.