Daily Archives: January 4, 2016

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D&D 5e Playtest: Kits of Old

4 Jan, 2016  in 5e DnD / game review / Unearthed Arcana by Brandes Stoddard

This month’s Unearthed Arcana is another brief one, but to be fair, Mearls has less time around the holidays just like the rest of us. “Kits of Old” looks back to 2e’s kit system to find the gold among the dross. The short version of the result is that I […]

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D&D 5e: Apostate and Renegade Wizards 1

4 Jan, 2016  in 5e DnD / Aurikesh / design ideas / Dragonlance / dresden files / Mage / Middle-Earth / setting ideas  tagged Aurikesh / D&D 5e / warlocks / wizards by Brandes Stoddard

Today I have for you a subclass – well, two subclasses, but heavily overlapping – that rely on some setting assumptions about wizards that are definitely not true in all settings. If you’re not already allowing and banning subclasses based on how they fit your campaign’s theme, cosmology, and society, […]

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