Recent content by kolya

I had my PCs fight a Snapdragon once. I couldn't resist the pun once I'd thought of it.

Sub-races in 5.0E always seemed like a solution created for the "too many types of elves" problem. And then once they'd created a tool they felt they needed to use it in more than one case. The dwarf sub-races didn't seem like they had much lore justification, they were just different because we...

Adventure Time elements: Fire Ice Candy Slime

I don't hate it.

Prompted in part by some of the negative response to the new treatment of half-races in the new 2024 playtest material (and various questions about the separation of biology and culture in race selection), I've put together a document as a proof of concept for a modular system that allows more...

But having to do the translation oneself is... in fact... extra work that may act a barrier. This move reduces that friction.

If I click a link, am I gonna be rickrolled?

No, I think you're good to have the spell fizzle. There is solid in-narrative reason for Word of Recall to not work as indented, you're not just pulling this out at the last minute as an excuse to force the combat.

I have always felt that the druid is trying to do two separate things; animal shapeshifter, and the nature priest spellcaster. This split focus results in the druid doing both badly. My ideal would make the druid purely the shapeshifter animal warrior, and the nature spellcaster would be...

On the other hand, it's important for marginalized people to show solidarity and support each other's causes vocally. We are all stronger together. But yes, it could/should have been two defendants, one being native, which would have made the solidarity point stronger.

I feel like you have decided that this is a problem with no solution. No matter what suggestion anybody makes you have an excuse for why it won't work or why it has already failed. Your conception of elf is a black hole, anything that strays too close, no matter how minutely, gets sucked in and...

I mean... space operas don't have a great track record avoiding elves either. Vulcans and Romulans are (accidentally?) space elves. Minbari are (definitely not accidentally) space elves. Na'vi are space elves. I don't know how big a problem you really have.

The player characters are using past experiences or knowledge, previous encounters with mimics or stories of encounters with mimics, to be suspicious of the situation. They then use the tools they have, like a spell that will hurt a creature, to test if their suspicions are valid. As a DM, the...

So many thoughts and feelings that I can't articulate. But in general this framing make me feel uncomfortable. Steampunkette does a good job of articulating some thoughts. So I will instead ask a practical question. If offspring are created through a ritual involving combining drops of blood...

The important feature of the magic Player Psychographics, ( T(a/i)mmy, J(e/oh)nny, and Spike ) and Aesthetic types (Vorthos and Mel), are that they are tools to remind the designers to consider many types of players and make something for everyone. Not to try to make every piece appeal to every...