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Harbinger of Doom: Aurikesh

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Showing posts with label Aurikesh. Showing posts with label Aurikesh. Friday, August 19, 2016. Session Postmortem: The Great Old One Opera. If you played in this session, there are some minor spoilers, particularly about what matters and what doesnt - but it would be a mistake to draw conclusions on this basis going forward. Links to this post. Friday, August 5, 2016. RPG Blog Carnival: The Ways of the Wise Wrap-up. Links to this post. Wednesday, July 13, 2016. RPG Blog Carnival: The Wizards of Aurikesh.

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Harbinger of Doom: October 2014

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Monday, October 27, 2014. Homebrewed 5e: the Races of Aurikesh, Revised. For my Aurikesh campaign setting, I scrapped the core 5e races and wrote new racial abilities. I am pretty much fine with 5es rules for elves, dwarves, halflings, and the less common races, but they werent what I wanted for Aurikesh. As Ive mentioned before, I really. Dont like the rules for humans, because the most generic ones. Links to this post. Saturday, October 25, 2014. The Ranger Class, Part Three. Links to this post. 160;th...

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Harbinger of Doom: January 2015

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Friday, January 30, 2015. Monsters from Myth II: Soulblighter for D&D. Okay, I dont know how many of you played Bungies excellent Myth. 160;series is the best ripoff of the Black Company. Books Ive ever seen. With that in mind, I want to develop my familiarity with monster-building in D&D 5e by adapting some of Myth. S horrifying monsters, undead and otherwise. Links to this post. Campaigns Id like to run. Tuesday, January 20, 2015. Links to this post. Saturday, January 17, 2015. Links to this post.

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Harbinger of Doom: April 2015

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015. D&D 5e: New Warlock Invocations. In a recent post, I went into some detail breaking down what I see as problems in the design. Of the warlock class. Today Im suggesting a few new invocations. The invocations that allow the warlock to cast a spell, at the cost of a warlock slot, once per long rest. we can agree that thats paying a very limited resource for a very limited benefit, right? I linked it last time, and Ill do so again: this optimization thread. Links to this post.

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Harbinger of Doom: D&D 5e Playtest: Awakened Mystic

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Tuesday, July 7, 2015. D&D 5e Playtest: Awakened Mystic. The new playtest packet for the Mystic class. Known in other editions as the Psionicist - went up on the Wizards of the Coast website today in Unearthed Arcana. Since I'm also working on an edition-by-edition exploration of psionics. Which would also be a good name for a shoegaze remix of death metal.). Way Of course, there have been other classes in D&D that were called the Mystic, going all the way back to OD&D. I'm not sure that word has mea...

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Harbinger of Doom: D&D 5e: Magic Item Economy

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Monday, June 29, 2015. D&D 5e: Magic Item Economy. Over in Google Plusville, Levi Kornelsen. The absence of a magic item economy in 5e. This is a core design assumption on WotC's part, and they haven't been shy about it. In most. Levi was good enough to present five basic actions that he felt were critical acceptance criteria to anything that wanted to call itself a magic item economy. Buying magic items from an NPC. Selling magic items to an NPC. Salvaging something useful from abandoned workshops.

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Harbinger of Doom: D&D Dungeon Postmortem: The Abbey of the Immortal Saint

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Monday, June 22, 2015. D&D Dungeon Postmortem: The Abbey of the Immortal Saint. The PCs involved in this adventure have been working on collecting magic items that they can use to perform a necromantic ritual and re-bind the spectres, shadows, and wraiths that one of them released (out of a sense of altruism). In prior adventures, they discovered what they needed to do and collected two of the three items; the adventure of this session was finding the last item, the Theurgist's stole. Alekkvi, a beruch.

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Harbinger of Doom: D&D 5e: Three New Spells, One New Pact, One New Patron

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Saturday, July 4, 2015. D&D 5e: Three New Spells, One New Pact, One New Patron. In my campaign, I recently introduced warlocks serving the Nightwalker, my setting's version of the Grim Reaper. The PCs have known they would eventually run into such warlocks, but this is the first time it has happened. Obviously, that meant I had to write a new Patron option for the Warlock class, and in so doing I also. Wrote a new Pact and three new necromantic spells. The new spells are a patch on the extremely. V, S, M...

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Harbinger of Doom: D&D 5e: The Trouble with Friends

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Friday, August 7, 2015. D&D 5e: The Trouble with Friends. A conversation sprang up yesterday in my blog post about the Royal Sorcerer origin subclass. In that conversation, I was correctly called out for some shoddy design. Specifically, I gave the royal sorcerer the ability to make the friends. Cantrip cover its tracks with 100% effectiveness. This isn't a good idea, but then the friends. Casting Time: 1 action. Components: S, M (a small amount of makeup applied to the face as this spell is cast). If no...

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Harbinger of Doom: D&D 5e: Royal Bloodline Sorcerous Origin

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Tuesday, September 2, 2014. D&D 5e: Royal Bloodline Sorcerous Origin. During the public playtest of D&D Next, I did some fiddling around with the sorcerer class to keep it current-ish with later packets, because several of my players were so intrigued by the original class concept. My efforts. Like many people who haven't lived in a monarchy, I find the idea of the divine right of kings interesting, because I don't. So Hard, and that is another point of inspiration for this concept. In itself, of course,...