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  1. Kobold Stew

    D&D (2024) 75 Feats -- not nearly enough

    I am aware; I just disagree.
  2. Kobold Stew

    D&D (2024) 75 Feats -- not nearly enough

    The promise of 75 feats announced in the Gameinformer Magazine feature sounds promising, but I'm not sure it actually represents a big step forward. Let's tally what we've seen. (In some ways this is an update of the survey I did on feats post-Playtest 7, last September.) Level 1 Feats: 10...
  3. Kobold Stew

    D&D (2024) More D&D 2024 Tidbits: Aasimar, Goliaths, Town-Eating Gelatinous Cubes

    The inclusion of Aasimar leaves me hoping that there will be some non-innately spellcasting species from MotM included as well.
  4. Kobold Stew

    D&D 5E (IC) Scourge of Daggerford

    Tommi hears the swarm of rats, but his vision is obscured by his allies. No one is moving, and he doesn't want to hit anyone with a stone. But Gutter is thirsty. He pushes himself towards the shrieking rats, oblivious to all danger, and stabs the swarm, before backing away. Move 25' to Q41...
  5. Kobold Stew

    D&D 5E Adapting the Warlock Chassis for other Classes

    So many fun ideas here. I can think of specific characters for whom each of the following would have been great payoffs.
  6. Kobold Stew

    D&D General Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons, collection of essays published by MIT Press

    "How to make a Warlord in 18e." "How to fix the 18e Monk." "Flanking in 18e: how 15e did it better."
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    D&D 5E (IC) Fitz's Folly

    Seeing her arrow hit the hag, and sink into her as if it were a pin in a pincushion makes Miss Imogen's heart sink. Why had they undertaken this fight? She was ill-equipped, low on arrows, and unable to help. Or was she? Miss Imogen shivered, and knew how little moisture there was down here...
  8. Kobold Stew

    D&D 5E Adapting the Warlock Chassis for other Classes

    The nice thing about this approach is that the class feats/invocations need not be class-specific. Like, sure, they could be, but they don't need to be, and if someone wants to get a lockpicking knack or a raise dead knack even if they aren't a burglar or necromancer, that's cool. Invocations...
  9. Kobold Stew

    D&D 5E Adapting the Warlock Chassis for other Classes

    Might it be productive to see these as two independent dials, rather than just narrowing a single dial? For me: Pact determines they way you are approaching a problem. Specifically, in combat, but it need not be that. Your pact choice will govern the sorts of things you want to be able to do...
  10. Kobold Stew

    The Hunt for Gollum

    The fact that Serkis hasn't been nominated for an Oscar yet is a big oversight. Had War for the POTA been better, he might have gotten a nod for it. Maybe this is his chance?
  11. Kobold Stew

    WotC Bard is the biggest mystery in the 5.75e PHB

    ...and these are still a thing for the Valor Bard (in Playtest 6). I'm actually fine with that.
  12. Kobold Stew

    D&D (2024) WotC Fireside Chat: Revised 2024 Player’s Handbook

    Here's a list of changes, that I'm copying from here (I pulled it together when MotM came out). Size Difference for PCs. Small Can ride a medium mount (and so effective as a beastmaster ranger or battlesmith artificer). Using heavy weapons gives disadvantage. Can grapple/push Medium creatures...
  13. Kobold Stew

    Against the Giants 5e PBP (Full)

    You're good. Welcome to the game! The Colonel was charged with his care -- and now he's come into his own!
  14. Kobold Stew

    WotC Bard is the biggest mystery in the 5.75e PHB

    Yes! And that's the elegance of it (in my eyes) -- it means you don't need a Divine Soul subclass.
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    WotC Bard is the biggest mystery in the 5.75e PHB

    I think this is the biggest loss that I regret from the playtest. It was such a good idea -- immediate and easy to implement, leading to an range of builds for the class. Whatever they do, I think one of my house rules (should anyone want it) is that Bards and Sorcerers can pick a spell list...
  16. Kobold Stew

    D&D (2024) WotC Fireside Chat: Revised 2024 Player’s Handbook

    Being short and being Small sized are different things. Small are between 2-4' tall. Dwarves aren't S. Is it possible for humans to be that? Sure. Does it reflect 99%+ of the adult population? No. As a result, it is not accurately modelling "adult human" to say "S or M". (Or is it the case...
  17. Kobold Stew

    D&D (2024) WotC Fireside Chat: Revised 2024 Player’s Handbook

    ...except that humans apparently are also S or M.
  18. Kobold Stew

    (IC) Against the Giants PBP Group 2

    The Colonel is proud of young Donnel, and the immense growth that he has shown. It's like he is his own person in this fight, for the first time since he became the Colonel's ward. The Colonel looks up to the sky and thanks the lightning, and a peal of thunder is heard in the distance. Round 2...
  19. Kobold Stew

    D&D 5E (IC) Fitz's Folly

    Miss Imogen wonders as the vegepygmy attains a form that reminds her of the dinosaurs in the city where she had first met Weed, Qawasha, and the others, and where this adventure had begun. They had seemed so wondrous then, but compared to this, they were now commonplace. So much had happened...
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