The Gaming Den

Life is like a box of chocolates. Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something. I'm definitely of the opinion that letting Rangers have both Archery and Two-Weapon fighting styles is good. There's -- broadly speaking -- two possible worlds that I can see, so I'll try to address th...

additional picks from the same list of abilities offer diminishing returns. Only if the picks offer effects that do not scale or are not otherwise evergreen. This is kind of streching the astral construct example because it was specifically built with multiple menus in mind so how you make your pic...

Meikle641 wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 04, 2025 1:56 am

At each level range, you can choose an ability from the following menus (2 if you spend a feat and Expend Focus)"

Apparently menus and options you can pick from multiple times at different points in time are inherently bad.

I know you didn't have any Adept Classes to look at, but considering that they seem very similar to the Warrior concepts, I'm not sure that developing them further makes sense - maybe combining them with the existing Warrior classes would make them more suitable. Yeah... they're not, though. At lea...

Mage - So having looked over more classes, the only thing I want to add is that there are a lot more Arcane Leys than most classes get. All sparks get five subclasses, one for each school in their beam. They don't have "more" than anyone else in their beam. Every class of a given beam sha...

The one thing that every game needs is verisimilitude - the idea that the game world is real for the characters. Revealing that the players around the table are the ACTUAL real world isn't clever - it's game destroying. While it's TRUE that our reality is real and the game is fantasy, saying that p...

Well, I'll take a quick look, then. The more useful feedback, the better, ye. I had looked at the Arbiter before, and it doesn't seem so bad. Automatic spell interruption, spells from the wizard list, and relatively reliable abilities to reduce damage to your allies actually seems like a decent pac...

<lots of words about paladin> ...you know, you make a number of decent points, and one of the few counterarguments I had isn't supported by the lookup I did earlier. I think the one big thing I'd wanted to push back against was the notion that "hey don't die" features aren't really featur...

Having a large number of classes definitely creates complexity around what a viable party looks like. With the understanding that some things have changed dramatically over the years, the following group compositions have been tried: Success -- Fateless Hollow, Automind Rigger, Mystic Monk, Arcane ...

Are there scrolls or other ways besides directly casting them that classes would have access to higher level spells? I haven't particularly given much thought to spell-replication items -- I think scrolls exist in 5e, but they're rarely discussed, and because of how my setting works I generally nix...

With so much content I think I'm going to ask some clarifying questions as I read through it. Sure. Part of the goal here is that everything makes sense to someone without me around to step in and explain things. First question - in the arcane spell list, most spells are given a type like acanthus ...

This looks interesting and I'll try to read through some links tomorrow. Appreciated. I'm not sure that you can get away with Jedi as a class name. If I were selling something, it'd be a problem, I concur. As it is, the mouse can kiss my ass. That said I'm not opposed to figuring out a less-obvious...

Beam \ Role Adept Defender Expert Petmaster Racial Spark Specialist Support Warrior Arcane Jack Arbiter Princess Summoner Arcantrix Mage Artificer Bard Runeblade Psionics Jedi Cenobite Idealist Gestalt Zoanthrope Psychic Erudite Ardent Monk Technology Gunbreaker Ironman Detective Rigger Tron Engine...

Since Comprehend13 wasn't here when last I asked, assuming it is the correct move to give failed banks lots of government money to stay afloat, why should they be bailed out rather than bought out? You failed as a private business, now you get to be nationalised. Probably something to the effect of...

MGuy wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 23, 2023 11:09 pm

Why respond to the car thing and not the more substantive criticisms of your screed?

Because I'm posting from my phone and doing extensive typing on it is annoying.

I'm sure you clowns can jerk each other off until I'm back at a sensible keyboard.

Neo Phonelobster Prime wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 23, 2023 8:31 pm

Bullshit you do.

Would be an odd thing to lie about, given how unarduous it is to prove it.





I drive a 2011 Honda CR-Z, and have for... six, seven years?

Neo Phonelobster Prime wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 23, 2023 8:13 pm

When they come to take away mah needlessly giant car

I drive a tiny hybrid.

But go on, do keep attacking that strawman. I'm sure someone will find it compelling.

You are just on a hair trigger about your gun nut love and therefore read any mildly poetic criticism of the US military as actually about trying to take away your 14th rifle. You know what? I'm done. You constantly intentionally mischaracterize anyone who vaguely disagrees with you, and I'm sick o...

For one you're already essentially eating the bug, metaphorically if not literally, and confiscating private jets is great for show but doesn't at all get at the heart of the disaster we're facing. My understanding is that those private jets output an absurd amount of CO2, and given how often these...

I think confiscating every private jet and thereafter banning private air travel would be a good start and something I'd gladly support.

But if you tell me the solution is to "eat the bugs," you can come attempt to make me do so at gunpoint.

JonSetanta wrote: ↑

Mon May 02, 2022 10:58 pm

I read the Summoner and found it to be well balanced.

Thanks, I appreciate the feedback.

Wait hang on, I've got it. We have a new housemate so we had a traditional celebration so I've had something like ten standard drinks and have come to a great realisation: crafting is performed by finding ingredients, that are all in Tetris piece style shapes. And you have to fill a grid (cleanly) ...

I spent some time going over the summoner class -- thanks for posting something substantial here. I appreciate you taking the time to look it over. Superficially, my max summons cr is much higher, especially at later levels, but you don't have any time limits from what I see on the summons Correct,...

I've been doing pet classes as part of my approach to my 5e homebrew. Here are a couple examples: Summoner , Gestalt . I'm not sure how well either of those contribute to the discussion, but I think they hit on some points that have been brought up, and might be useful fodder for "this is reaso...

You have jumped the shark.