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So long as you are personally vaccinated and do not have any elevated risk factors, you are unlikely to die of covid-19 no matter how many remaining Americans refuse to get vaccinated. Blatantly illegal purges of political opponents are not especially likely to be tied to which party has control of ...

Different characters have different base stats, which lends them more towards certain specializations, but there's no hard-coded classes. You can load up Aeris with HP-up and make her a mediocre tank if you want, but you could've put the same materia on Barret for much better effect.

If you have more than thirteen gods in your pantheon, you have more than your players can keep track of or will care about. A very easy way to trim down divine redundancy is to stop having gods of specific races. The orcs might have a specific patron deity, but that deity does not need to be exclusi...

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Sun Oct 03, 2021 4:29 am

Okay, hear me out... Spelljammer. (I have a feeling this has been bandied about on here before) It would work for the kids who watch Adventure Time and Regular Show

Those shows debuted over a decade ago and have been off the air for years. Their primary audience is like 25 years old by now.

The Aspect Hunter's Lycan Aspect is also a wererat, wereshark, werebear, etc., so probably not what you want for a pure werewolf. Might provide some ideas, though.

Going E6 in 5e is definitely a weird choice, and I almost wonder if it's a holdover from a version of this that was written (even if only as homebrew) for Pathfinder rules that was just never questioned when they updated to 5e. E6 does mean there are certain spells that will never be available, but ...

A dozenish? I have tried combining paizo adventure paths before, though even if their parts are too unwieldy for me, I end up always making up my own stuff, though I have used pathfinder scenarios successfully in that way. Rise of the Runelords, Shattered Star, Return of the Runelords, Curse of the...

I'm interested in hearing more on your default / Frankensteined PF campaign, especially how you transition groups to higher level play within your setting. In order to keep the workload down, the setting is still 80% the same as Golarion, so the transition to higher level play is mostly just Runelo...

So basically you may swap the npc class to an aspect one and the players may follow you. Honestly unless I am missing sth, which is quite likely, I wouldn't play any martial class except your warrior. No, you've got it. And indeed, I recommend to everyone who plays in my PF1 games to use the Aspect...

I use aspect classes for NPCs and recommend new players use them for themselves. The preconception that core is more accessible than anything third-party is evidently so extremely strong that it overrides even me directly telling people that these classes were specifically designed to be more access...

I've only had one case where a session was made noticeably worse and one player in particular was clearly at fault. I did boot him, he did not ask for a refund, but my official refund policy is "fuck you and your lawyer," so if he had, he wouldn't have gotten one. I actually refunded the g...

The only three systems people ever ask me to run are 5e, PF1, and FATE, and if someone asked me to run a system I strongly dislike, I would probably just say no. Likewise, the vast majority of people want me to run an AP, and while I do clean up APs a bit, I mostly run them as they're printed, both ...

Yes. This page is a much more navigable list of my work.

Sort of. Mercer is in a position to eat D&D's lunch if they ever try to move on to 6e because he is like 80% of D&D's de facto marketing power, but Colville is in exactly the position Paizo was in: A major third-party content creator who is generally liked by the fan community, and who would...

5e has at least two Pathfinder candidates: Matt Mercer and Matt Colville. It is not currently clear whether or not being named "Matt" is a prerequisite to major success in the current market, but available data strongly indicates this is so. For serious, though, if 5e got phased out for 6e...

One hundred percent (you have to scroll down past Dark Lord to reach it). With the added benefit that I am unlikely to stop partway through so long as I continue making like $2,000/month off of them. I'm gonna need to bring this thread to a screeching halt for a moment while I consider my life deci...

This may be a bit off-topic, but what does everyone think the odds are of 5e eventually getting a cool, ambitious project like this one for it? One hundred percent (you have to scroll down past Dark Lord to reach it). With the added benefit that I am unlikely to stop partway through so long as I co...

On the other hand, if an animate creature can be Veiled only if they're inside of an inanimate, Veiled object, that would explain why bogeyman require a bag to shove naughty children into.

D&D is the most popular because it's been a cultural reference in the US since the satanic panic of the early 1980's . D&D's cultural power is absolutely dwarfed by that of Star Wars, and yet not one of 3-5 (depending on how you count them) Star Wars RPGs has ever been the most popular RPG....

Elected leaders aren't just bureaucrats with particularly high positions in the org chart. We have a lot of those appointed by the executive branch, and nobody notices or cares if they telecommute from the Bahamas for the entire goddamn year. An elected leader has an additional duty to lead . To pro...

True, but, again taking the Lady of Pain as an example, does she do anything to interact with the players? Unless they decide to break her rules and explicitly do something they know they aren't supposed to, she leaves them alone, right? If she was to rock up at the PCs house and order them to go o...

The adventurers are pointed at a bunch of bandit-infested wilderness and told to turn it into a vassal state. I'd have been a lot more willing to quietly ignore the colonialist overtones for the sake of the premise if Paizo hadn't made the baffling decision to name the territory "the Stolen Lan...

I forget exactly what they were, but I slapped a few significant nerfs on the Stag Lord when I ran Kingmaker. The party still half-wiped (the survivors fled) while attacking his fort, although that's partly because they were undergeared, having made a beeline straight from the encounter to the fortr...

Parts of the Dragonlance plot are explicit analogues to Mormon doctrine. Forgotten Realms was originally a setting where the "gods" are just big monsters with a cult and you can stab them to death, but Dragonlance was the tip of the spear of the weird polytheistic Christianity takeover.

If you put a cap on the number of battles in the campaign, whether hard (campaign ends after eight battles, period) or soft (after five battles, units are more and more likely to be permanently eliminated and/or become more expensive to replace), then you can use a reverse snowball mechanic of some ...