It’s been rather a while since I’ve posted any Aurikesh content. Admittedly, they’re of interest to a narrower group than some of my other subjects, but much like I said the last time I wrote a Monsters of Aurikesh post, I want to get better at creature design. Also I […]
We’ve had the druid, paladin, and ranger in the last couple of playtest packets. These three classes have a greater burden of justifying their own existence than many other classes in the game. They need to differentiate themselves from the classes of which they were offshoots, way back in 2e […]
So D&D has always had this thing where wizards have to research or seize their spells from others, but clerics automatically get access to all spells of each new spell level. (4e is the exception, since it had a totally different approach to spell levels.) Everything else about the two […]
This week in my Aurikesh campaign, I’ll be trying something new. Thus far in the campaign, the players have been based in the city of Chardecum. Some of their adventures have taken them up to a week’s journey out of the city, but I expect their next adventure to involve […]
In yesterday’s Legends & Lore post, Mearls talks about feats, skills, and class options. The Big Deal of it is that they’re making a Big Change to skills and offering a little more explanation of the Big Change to feats. All of this springs out of their fundamental principle that the […]
Ever since the last time I wrote about healing in D&D Next, I’ve been rolling ideas around in the cavernous emptiness of this here melon. I’m still not happy with healing solutions that involve no attrition at all over the course of an adventure, but my stance has softened somewhat […]
Yesterday’s Legends and Lore post deals with what WotC calls tiers of play, or the way the campaign changes over the course of play. This gives me a great opportunity to toss out a link to my previous post on high-level play. Mearls gives a brief breakdown of the history […]
Welcome back for another round of off-the-cuff review of the newest D&D Next public playtest packet. Tonight the review is particularly powered by insomnia derived from coughing, which I do not care for at all. They’ve been talking up this packet for awhile – as advertised, it changes things up […]
When Torchlight II first came out, I meant to pick it up, but I was in the middle of something or other and it slipped my mind. A few weeks ago, a friend mentioned in G+ how much she and her whole family were enjoying the game, so Kainenchen and […]
This is another of those things that I am not entirely sure it’s okay to post, so if someone from Wizards of the Coast comes across this and tells me to take it down, I will do so, with apologies. (That said, I suspect a lot more than this has […]