Interencounter Ballistic Missile Weapon One of the players in my 5th Edition game has the infamous Sharpshooter feat. I adjusted its power by limiting the -5 to hit and +10 to damage to once per turn and that’s working very […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Scent of Success My wife played a ranger during 3rd Edition, most of that play during an Organised Play – Living Greyhawk to be specific. A quick of that campaign was each adventure occupied a week or more of your […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Beastly The Beast Master ranger gets a lot of hate. So much so that the D&D Round Table podcast devoted an entire episode to fans of the Beast Master, giving them an opportunity to defend it. The discussion was a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
WWAAS Metagame knowledge of traps can make the game awkward. I’ve maintained in the past that the best traps are blatantly obvious and the trick is not detecting them but figuring out a way past them. (Ironically, my book of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If You Can Find Them The roles are really iconic and map fairly well to your average adventurers: the strong muscle, the intelligent leader, the charismatic face, and the… well… fourth member of the team. Really, a fourth teammate is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I Think I’m a Clone Now Drizzt covers a lot of cliches. Or tropes. Or stereotypes. Pick your noun. He’s a ranger has a panther/large cat animal companion, he uses twin scimitars/swords, he’s a member of a traditionally evil race […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bulette Time Ignoring the fact the adventurer above would likely only have had time for a “Look out, it a b-” before being devoured. Or even a Monty Python-esque “It’s-“. The bulette, whose name most certainly is not pronounced the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Playing By The Rules The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game has this to say about death: Dead: The character’s hit points are reduced to a negative amount equal to his Constitution score, his Constitution drops to 0, or he is killed outright by a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the Past One of the big additions to D&D for 5th Edition is the idea of a “background”. Similar to secondary skills from 2nd Edition or traits in Pathfinder, a background is what your character was before they were […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Feeling Curious I love telegraphing traps. The big obvious traps that are very obvious traps, so the question is not “is there a trap?” but “what does it do?” or “how can we get past it”. Now I’ve typed “trap” […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In Search of Adventure Alternate title: looking for loot in all the wrong places. Adventuring is an inherently suicidal occupation for common people. Fighting monsters and dungeon delving seems as conducive to a long life as juggling poisoned chainsaws to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
