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Lucky
Lucky A quirk of relying on a twenty-sided dice for the outcome of most actions in a game system is equal chances of a 1 or a 20 or anything between. There is no bell curve. Even the most expert of...
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Choose your destiny
Choose your destiny Magic items are all about presentation. You can award a +5 sword of ogre decapitation but if it’s just casually tossed at the players it might as well be a masterwork rubber...
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Set Spells to Stun
Set Spells to Stun Sometimes you just want a prisoner. This was tricky in older editions, which killed monsters and NPCs at 0 hitpoints and didn’t have any real mechanics for the knockout. 3e changed...
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Shocking
Shocking It’s easy to make fun of the power word spells. There’s a lot of silliness that results from the game’s mechanics intersecting with the very simple flavour of an arcane word that can stun,...
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Periodic
Periodic Their subscription numbers are sadly low. It might have something to do with barbarians being explicitly unable to read in many editions. They try to make up for it with lots of glossy...
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Even Odds
Even Odds 5th Edition’s advantage/disadvantage mechanics is funky at times. So long as you can get yourself the smallest advantage nothing else happening to you really matters.
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The Other Type of Unbalanced
The Other Type of Unbalanced This is a problem most common among metal minis rather than pre-painted plastic minis with their massive black bases. Metal minis (and plastic ones derived from the same...
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New Subclasses Here’s some new PC options for your game. Barbarian Faerie Hunter The barbarians known as faerie hunters mix spellcraft with weaponry. Educated in magic by fey beings such as the...
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Soylent Green
Soylent Green Food is an interesting limited resource in dungeons. Most of the time, tracking food and mundane purchases is needless. The cost of a few meals and some arrows is negligible, especially...
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Bag of Hoarding
Bag of Hoarding Once players gain access to a bag of holding or a Handy Haversack the game transitions to Extreme Hoarders: Fantasy Edition. Everything that might be of use is tucked away in an...
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Time For a Rerun
Time For a Rerun If you don’t get this strip, please go back to your 1e core rulebooks and just flip for a while.
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Reaching for the Sky
Reaching for the Sky An eight-foot tall goliath has the same effective reach as a three-foot-five halfling despite having arms three times the length and potentially swinging a weapon larger than said...
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Balancing the Books
Balancing the Books There is a budget for an adventuring day: an expected number of encounters and a challenge for each encounter, with a projected amount of experience that can be earned between long...
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Rewarding Behaviour
Rewarding Behaviour As I’ve probably mentioned a dozen times recently, I’m running a more sandbox campaign after years of Adventure Paths and/or pre-published adventures. Which allows me more time to...
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Ba Dum Dum Tss
Ba Dum Dum Tss Bards can be heroic, blowing a trumpet or warhorn when the party rides forth, like Boromir sounding the Horn of Gondor and marshalling the Fellowship to battle. Bards can also move...
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Tickets Please
Tickets Please What did people call displays of muscles prior to the existence of guns? I imagine body fat was higher, and precise exercise was rarer, so muscles were less pronounced. People likely...
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Tentacle Fury
Tentacle Fury More #flumphening. I’d like to tell you this was the end, but it might go all January. Or until I stop being amused by the idea of flumph adventurers. Specifically ones like barbarians....
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Stubborn Jar of Pickles
Stubborn Jar of Pickles While commonly used for smashing monsters, a barbarian’s rage has a variety of useful applications. Because you have advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks, you can use it to...
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Epitaph
Epitaph The difference between an alive and raging barbarian and a painfully dying barbarian can only be discerned if the barbarian dies. Like a cat in a potentially irradiated box, it’s impossible to...
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Critical Overkill
Critical Overkill Crits are awesome, but it does feel wasted when you roll a natural 20 on an injured mook that is barely managing to stand upright. Kinda. On the other hand, dealing 40 points of...
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