Will be running the second session of "Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh" this weekend, fingers crossed. Looking forward to it. #dnd5e#ttrpg#ttrpgfamily#ttrpgcommunity
@artofrengin I went to look at the dress-up packs recently, the gumroad link on your profile doesn't include the dwarf cleric. I don't know if that's an old link and you might want to point it to your own website.
Does the paid version of the dwarf cleric look good without a weapon? I'm thinking of using her as a civilian NPC
If the math of your game demands a +2 bonus to an ability score, why even tie it to another game object if you don't want to stereotype or pigeonhole PCs?
@Tim_Eagon I love the fact that in the BG3 video game (based on D&D) my character is a sorceress who carries and wields a two-handed sword and has an 18 DEX thanks to magic gloves. She's not skilled with the sword, but it's a very rare 2-hander that's magically a finesse weapon, so her DEX +4 to hit makes up for it.. I have a soft spot for sorcerers/wizards who can also be a useful melee threat, which is very much against the stereotypical norms.
I looked at the “DC20” KS. It claims to be an evolution for ttrpgs, but I don’t see anything new. It uses action points and mana points, which seems to be the main “new” things when compared to D&D. Those have been around a while.
It looks crunchier than 5e, which is already too much for my tastes. YMMV, but it’s a pass for me.
They are using the ORC license, so there may be stuff worth hacking out of it.
For a heartbreaker it already has over a quarter million. I don’t know if the designer already has a following from somewhere else, it’s the first I’ve heard of them.
But yeah, for those of us who have explored other games since the 80s, it’s hard to find any truly new mechanics.
I think it's kind of weird how front and center the 80s D&D cartoon characters are in the artwork for the 2024 revisions when the majority of 5e fans weren't even alive when they aired.
@Tim_Eagon@kenmarable They're owned by Hasbro, the same company that handed off Transformers to a halfassed indie comics publisher (Dreamwave) for the resurrecting of the franchise at the turn of the century (while what cartoons started filtering back were actually re-imports of the series Takara made).
Then to another indie publisher (IDW) before deciding to do the movie franchise and really exploding things.
They're simultaneously bad at this and following a pattern.
It gives a history of the demon throughout the various #DnD editions, including dives into the monster's appearances modules like S4: The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth and Heart of Nightfang Spire.
After hearing some discussion on this, I'm curious to gather some data. If you are interested in responding to a survey on the a la carte purchases on D&D Beyond, please consider filling this out.
All this talk of the aurora borealis reminded me that I contributed a #DND5e creature based on that phenomena to the Scientific Secrets of Icewind Dale compilation on the DMs Guild. It's actually filled with lots of other cool creatures; purchase a copy if you're interested. Here's part of my contribution (there's more lore and some public domain art on the other page)