In a recent post on rogues, I discussed some of the issues surrounding 4e’s implementation of skill challenges. I’ve had a few days to give it more thought, and the idea has expanded in my imagination into something I might try to publish as a PDF, someday when I have […]
I wrote a guest post for Dice Monkey’s “Winter is Coming II” blog carnival, found here. Enjoy!Also, the first post in the blog carnival, The Ice Shall Take Us, is fucking amazing and you should all read it. No, seriously. This is a valid answer to the age-old question: “What […]
There are a whole lot of interesting issues circulating around fighters and rogues in the new playtest packet. Back in this post I scratched the surface of the changes they’ve made to rogues, but just today I started to realize how deep those changes actually run. For my Aurikesh campaign […]
In order to give the players in my Aurikesh campaign a range of options suitable to the setting, I have created two new “deities” for clerics to choose at character creation, and one new spell (as I was dissatisfied with the extant options in the playtest packet). I place deities […]
As I continue to flesh out the Aurikesh setting for what I hope will be its first adventure in the coming week, I am also working on getting comfortable with design inside the rules structure of D&D Next. Especially for magic items, they’ve created two really interesting hooks to hang […]
Hey, awesome, so there’s a new playtest packet from Wizards of the Coast, and like usual I’ll be commenting on it as I go. I have a slightly different context this time, as I have to figure out which rules my new Aurikesh game will be adopting, or if there […]
On suggestions from Stands-in-Fire, we worked out two more new healing-based Specialties. During character creation, one player wasn’t quite satisfied with the Artisan to cover being a full-time physicker, so I created the Physician Background as well. The mechanics probably have some rough edges that need sanding off, but I […]
One of the Specialties available in D&D Next is the Healer. Now, a Specialty is a pre-packaged path of feats, and these feats primarily deal in expanding or improving a character’s combat functionality. This might be an improvement on your class’s existing functions, such as a wizard that takes the Magic-User […]
Sooo I have no idea if Wizards of the Coast will yell at me for this. If they do, I’ll take it down with most sincere apologies. However, until then I have created a (very crude, but sufficient to my purposes) Word file (.docx format) and PDF for character sheets, […]
Wizards of the Coast has posted a new update on what to expect in the upcoming D&D Next playtest packet. Naturally, I want to comment on them! Some bullet points: Levels 1-10. Happy about this – though I’ll have to give some serious thought to whether or not Aurikesh continues […]