I’m going to chronicle a bit of my Strider Mode play with a character that I’m going to create. This will be a solo character for The One Ring second edition. I thought it might be fun to mix up what was expected and go with a character that is a little different that might be seen in the setting.
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I’ve had the idea of a Mortal Kombat Scorpion monk subclass in my head for a while. I had to get it into actual words instead of general concept, because I needed that headspace for other things. I’m sure this will need all kinds of tweaks, but I had to get the structure out there. Let me know what you
Read moreThis topic has come up a lot, and it’s not new to D&D 5e. Adjusting the number of hit points that an opponent has is one of the “difficulty sliders” that can be utilized in D&D, but the “permission” to do that has shifted a bit over time. For example, earlier editions of D&D strongly implied (if not directly stating)
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I’m moved to write about factions and how they have developed and shaped various d20 fantasy settings over the years. Now, here’s the trick . . . this is largely filtered through my own lens. That means the order in which I have encountered these things, and the degree to which I have taken them to heart, is largely shaped
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Spoilers for Icewind Dale Rime of the Frost Maiden. Because I made a mistake and gave the cleric a 3rd 1st level spell, I’m threading an alternate universe version of the encounter under the narrative where it diverges. Don’t you love alternate universe stories? Because there has been some discussion about it, I decided to try out the tough mission
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Alternate Gritty Rules After running several sessions using the slow natural healing rules and the gritty realism rules for D&D 5e, as expressed in the optional rules in the Dungeon Master’s Guide, those are punishing. Careful resource management is a key to making a game feel more or less super heroic, but shifting rests to 8 hours and 7 days
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Just for fun, and because I was a little stressed out, I wrote up entries for the two new cultures that my player characters encountered in their exploration of the Shackleton Expanse, a previously unexplored region that sits between the Klingons, the Federation, and the Romulans. Archivists The Archivists are a society with advanced power, transportation, and replication technology. Their
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One of the things that convinced me to do my first impression of Mothership is that, as I’ve been playing the game and reading the Player’s Survival Guide, it strikes me that it’s a pretty flexible system for running science fiction that is based on stressful situations with mysterious developments. The system itself is billed as a science fiction horror
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I can’t stop thinking about the ways you can play with Psionic Talent die that was introduced in the most recent Unearthed Arcana for psionic characters. I really like the concept, but my brain is bouncing around thinking about what it should represent and what could be done with it. Unearthed Arcana Psionic Options 2020 For some reason, increasing the
Read moreThe following is based on a thread I originally posted elsewhere on social media, pulled together and modified a bit to preserve the thought process. I just listened to Down with DnD today where Shawn Merwin and Mike Shea were discussing the D&D Essentials Kit. Some of that discussion sticks with me, especially when comparing D&D with other games. Combined
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