Recent content by Chaosmancer

I'm not saying that they are not actually good, especially from a technical angle. However, how many people have read original Dicken's work, and not seen the adaptations? A Christmas Carol might be one of the most adapted stories of all time. And it is one of the few Dicken's works that most...

Hmm, Not my favorite style of art, but I kind of like the scene and the colors are spot-on. I especially like the dragon using its breath to heat the tea. Great little detail.

Hmm, Not my favorite style of art, but I kind of like the scene and the colors are spot-on.

Is every pose now just going to get called "marvel"? You have a guy ready to swing a sword, a woman with two crossed blades, a dwarf with an axe and shield, a woman with a mace and shield.... and it is MARVEL posing? Also, I guess adventurers never get ready for battle. No combat for...

I'd be good with either something remaking the old characters or making new ones. Frankly, the stories HAVE to change, you can't just slap a fresh animation on the old story-boards and have it go. That would be horrid. But I don't think there is any inherent problem with having the same cast...

And yet... I can't say that I agree. I have never read a single original Sherlock Holmes story. Yet, I have dabbled in making Sherlock Holmes inspired stories, based off of the adaptation. Sherlock Holmes gets adapted or re-imagined because he is the Ur-archetype of the detective. Everyone...

Eh, somethings stand the test of time, other things don't, and some are purposefully preserved against time. Sure, I can go to any book store in the USA and find Tolkien or Shakespeare. I can also find Twilight, One Piece and the most recent Brandon Sanderson novel. Kids in school are being...

That makes them sound way more interesting than most of what I normally hear about them.

Thinking about the Iconics a bit more, I think DnD is actually in a position to do something kind of fun and interesting. A few years ago I got the Sentinel Comics RPG book, and in the book there are quite a few depictions of "classic" heroes and villains from the original card game... and a...

They had stated back during the UA playtest that they included Goliaths to be a second "big guy" race to pair up with Orcs. That way there would be more than one choice available to players for that archetype.

I'm still catching up to the thread, but I was getting really discouraged with the sheer vitriolic negativity. You buoyed my mood immediately with this news. Thank you and WHOO!

We don't use grappling much at my tables. It seems other than people planning to use "cheese grater" tactics, it (and therefore athletics) just don't come up. I do agree with the investigation vs perception issue, and it is something I address at my own tables. Again though, that ends up being...

Wow. Wanna poison the well a bit harder? I can still feel my eyeballs after reading this. I'm sure you can fix that with some cyanide. Out of nowhere, you suddenly started saying that wizards should gain random spells. This would not apply to bards, clerics, paladins, druids, sorcerers...

Ooh, that's a cool idea

Yeah, I like giving out spells to wizards as treasure. And there are a handful of very powerful spells that I limit access to (Wish, clone, simulacrum, that sort of stuff)