tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43354581348290428882024-03-13T14:30:48.008-07:00Walrock HomebrewUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335458134829042888.post-388138409642352082019-01-08T06:27:00.000-08:002019-01-08T06:27:50.843-08:00Race: Modron [Second Draft]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sure took me long enough to revise this one, didn't it? Almost a year and a half!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But now, revised Modrons are here, with updated art from the ever-talented Doug Wright! Play as a monodrone, duodrone, or quadrone with new racial abilities and drastically improved balance, using all the wonderful things I've been learning about race mechanics for this past year-and-some-change!</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a bit of toe-stepping with the rogue going on here, but it's not the worst. The race is set up so you'll usually avoid that, but I'm still not sure how I feel about it.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the spirit of celebration, we have the satyr, a character race to which revels and festivities are near and dear. The satyr epitomizes the heights and depths of emotion, drinking, carousing, but also mourning deeply, when such is called for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Satyrs come with three subraces and an inherent musical talent. Based heavily on the satyr offered in 4e's <i>Heroes of the Feywild</i>, this satyr is nevertheless distinct, and a very flavorful addition to the fey-themed races of D&D 5e!</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unsure of whether this should be fey/humanoid, or just fey (like the centaurs in Guildmaster's Guide). Sticking with fey/humanoid for now, because satyrs are way more humanoid than centaurs.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yep, <i>Heroes of the Feywild</i> is still one of my favorite 4e books. For a whooooole lot of reasons.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This in mind, I decided to make faeries as a playable race, tackling the concept of playing as a tiny character. Some things change! Others don't! Surprisingly, it's only a small (hah) difference.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Flying as a racial trait!</b> But, like, balanced.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Shrink the world down to your size,</b> and really mess with people.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The new rules for tiny races could create issues I haven't foreseen.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Feat balance isn't my forte, but they seem alright so far.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The flight ceiling isn't ideal, I don't think, but I'm hoping the easing of restrictions as a character levels make sense.</span></li>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335458134829042888.post-25632491017220477232018-12-22T14:06:00.003-08:002018-12-22T14:06:29.251-08:00Race: Awakened Undead [Fifth Draft]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So the DM's Guild just unleashed a massive collection of new art, including a ton of new undead images, for all creators to use. This spurred me to take another look at the Awakened Undead, and I realized I've learned a whole lot about making character races since I developed them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thus, revision number 5! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lots of changes this time around, both in verbage and in presentation. Let's get started!</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>New Interior Art,</b> including artwork from the talented Leena Lecklin (<a href="https://twitter.com/leenadraws">@leenadraws</a>), whose <a href="http://leenalecklin.tumblr.com/">tumblr</a> and <a href="http://www.instagram.com/leenalecklin">instagram </a>you can find at the links provided here!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>New Racial Feats,</b> one for every undead subrace!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>New Racial Traits</b> for skeletons and revenants!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Undead can now be healed and affected by humanoid spells,</b> but only receive half-healing from most sources.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Added a sidebar for "classic" no-healing undead,</b> because I know that's important to lots of folks.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adding healing, even half-healing, to undead was a contentious decision. I'm sure I'll make someone unhappy by doing so, but at least the half-healing trait (and the alternative sidebar rule) exist.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I changed quite a bit. Usually that creates small errors here and there. If you see something, say something!</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back in the old 4e days of yore, the <i>Player's Handbook III</i> offered a wide swath of races, introducing githzerai, minotaurs, and wilden to the game. Each of the subsequent PHB's offered a "power source" they focused on. PHB2 had Primal, whereas PHB3 offered multiple Psionic classes to choose from!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alongside those were, of course, the shardminds. An enigmatic race of psionic living crystal, formed from the last line of defense against the nightmares of the Far Realms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lore-rich and with strong psionic ties, shardmind stood out from the other race offerings in the PHB3 by virtue of being so different. You could be a more established race, sure, or you could be a being of glowing, living crystal that speaks by imparting thoughts into the minds of others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, naturally, I had to carry that over to 5e, soon as I could!</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Turn into a Swarm of Crystal Shards</b> and really mess people up.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a lot in this race, but it doesn't necessarily feel over-powerful.</span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335458134829042888.post-78021921969502258932018-12-03T13:48:00.000-08:002018-12-03T13:48:11.355-08:00Race: Swarm [First Draft]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sometimes, it's fun to make something profoundly different and gross. Something that makes my skin crawl just writing about it. Something equal parts fun and horrifying to bring to the table and play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hint: I'm talking about this race. This horrible, disgusting, pile-of-worms-or-rats-in-a-trenchcoat race.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A swarm is created one of two ways: Either arising by itself when a group of tiny animals or insects affected by magic bands together, or when a mortal is transformed into one by dark magic. Swarms are nightmares to behold, and a truly alien creature to step into the shoes of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And, honestly, those are the characters that I like playing the best. The characters that see the world in a way I never could, that have opinions, thoughts, and motives that I the player find strange to contemplate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyway! Here's what it does:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Break into an amorphous ball of nasty,</b> to slip through grates and escape foes!</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Eat people!</b> Just, eat people.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Two different feats, </b>to give your swarm some fun magic to play with!</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a hard one to balance, but doesn't feel overly powerful. Playtesting is good.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It's fun to do concepts that instinctively make me flinch away! Broadens my horizons, and I can really lean into what I find gross or unnerving about them.</span></li>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335458134829042888.post-45857345808257256522018-12-02T16:15:00.003-08:002018-12-02T16:15:48.286-08:00Spells: Codex of Technomancy [First Draft]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fun fact: I had a rough Codex of Alchemy at one point, but I fully cannibalized what I made there to make the Brewcraft and Imbue Potion features on the Witch class.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway! Technomagic has always been one of my favorite ideas, the idea that in a world where both science and magic exist, there'd be a rather big overlap on that Venn diagram. I've also been a big fan of the mad science types that would take up such arcane practice, as well as the Actual Magic Scientists who'd look down their nose at exactly those kind of people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's take a look at what this supplement has in store:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>16 New Spells, </b>with something for every class!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Spells to Craft Golems,</b> take pictures, summon impossible machines, create traps, and more!</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The usual slew of small balance concerns that come with making lots of spells for just about any class</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">YEP SPELL COMPILATIONS ARE ABOUT AS HARD AS I REMEMBER. I'll for sure make another one eventually, but it'll take a while.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first draft of the scarecrow was remarkably on-point! Very little needed to be changed, which is something I always appreciate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love making D&D races in particular. There's something fun about the lore-writing, which I don't typically get to do. Races, for obvious reasons, get much more lore than general class options, and making a race gives me much more time to create a compelling reason to play that character.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Scarecrows in particular are interesting to me. Not only are they a construct race, which I adore, but they're horror-themed. They're twisted abominations of their former selves, so far-gone they've forgotten who they even were.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's a fun character for me, personally, to play, because it begs the question: Where does the character go from here?</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Not that much! Changed how fire vulnerability works, added a passive racial ability that literally scares crows, and a sidebar for how scarecrows and witches interact.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">New art by <a href="http://dougawright.tumblr.com/">Doug Wright</a>!</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But, more importantly, it had great thematic potential, and a well-defined space that allowed it to exist as a distinct class!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Converting it to v0.2 required a few crucial changes, most of which I'll elaborate briefly on in the changelog.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Added integrated weapon augments into the core battlefist design</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Level 0 play is a really intriguing option to me. I love starting the party in a position of relative powerlessness, and having them earn their stripes from there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I kicked around how to do this for some time, experimenting with ideas like Level 0 Archetypes, backgrounds-as-classes, and other off-the-wall spitballing ideas before</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> finally settling on the Commoner class, as you see it here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Commoner is a class unlike any other, not necessarily meant to be played alongside traditional fighters, rogues, wizards, or the rest. Commoners are by nature weaker to the point of near death, and exist entirely before 1st level. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A commoner is a class about overcoming your flaws, getting stronger, and learning to survive.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>A Collection of Unique Flaws,</b> to give each commoner character and something to struggle against.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>A Handful of Perks,</b> illustrating how each commoner learns the tricks necessary to help them survive.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>A New Background, </b>for any character, but particularly for aspiring commoners!</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As with any new game mechanic, will it work as intended?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are commoners too weak, or too strong?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How to the flaws and perks measure against each other?</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">So, I thought, what if I went into the <i>Volo's Guide to Monsters</i> rules for tabaxi, and tweaked them, so that they'd be able to have subraces? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">What if I took the cats we already had, and used them to make <i>even more cats</i>?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Here's the result, with artwork from the fabulous <a href="http://ashleyirelan.com/">Ashley Irelan</a>, whose portfolio you can find by clicking her name!</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>Five new tabaxi subraces!</b> From lions, to lynxes, to housecats!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>Distinct subrace features for each,</b> to make different cats play like different cats.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">The core race may not have as much unifying meat left on its bones as I would like.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Turning a race into subraces is fun, and not as difficult as it would seem! I'll have to try it more often.</span></span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335458134829042888.post-47708538558794583152018-11-17T17:12:00.002-08:002018-11-17T17:12:22.191-08:00Catching Up!Hey there, reader! Bet you've been wondering about the radio silence.<div>
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Well, surprisingly, I haven't stopped releasing! I've just fallen behind in on-the-blog updates in a major way.</div>
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But that's going to change in the next few days. I'll be bringing us back up to speed with an update every couple of days, until we're all caught up to my most recent releases.</div>
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So buckle up, you'll be seeing a lot of new (well not precisely, but still!) content, very quickly.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335458134829042888.post-84353546988866079932018-09-03T12:39:00.000-07:002018-09-03T12:39:11.916-07:00Teas and Tisanes [First Draft]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/product/250881/WH-Teas-and-Tisanes-brewed-beverage-options-for-all-settings-and-characters" style="background-color: white; color: #244e57; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-decoration-line: none;">Available on the DM's Guild (pay what you want) at this link!</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Sometimes, I don't want to make something big, crazy, and over-the-top. Sometimes, a mellow, laid-back bit of lore and character building is just what we need.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Teas and Tisanes is a collection of canonical teas and, well, tisanes, from multiple major D&D settings. Listed by location and biome, it even includes rules for brewing, drinking, and finding tea in your own games.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Have a character that'd like to brew a pot of tea over an open campfire, or conduct an elaborate tea ceremony? Then pour a cup, flip through this supplement, and enjoy!</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>28 Teas and Tisanes</b> to enjoy with your party, some of which have magical effects!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>A new toolset</b> to brew tea with.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">When in doubt, ask Ed Greenwood and Keith Baker for help.</span></span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335458134829042888.post-18794115512171471532018-08-20T15:14:00.003-07:002018-08-20T15:14:43.536-07:00Expanded and Exotic Weapons [Seventh Draft]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/product/221074/WH-Expanded-and-Exotic-Weapons-featuring-boot-daggers-spiked-chains-and-more"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="600" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5PgAFwM3VTc/W3s6De3E6oI/AAAAAAABdB4/rXFvS-JCisgJi50K8j0hYS6cUtqkHR15QCLcBGAs/s1600/dmsguild-preview.png" /></a></div>
<a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/product/221074/WH-Expanded-and-Exotic-Weapons-featuring-boot-daggers-spiked-chains-and-more" style="background-color: white; color: #244e57; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-decoration-line: none;">Available on the DM's Guild (pay what you want) at this link!</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">And I thought having six drafts was note-worthy!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.85px;">Expanded and Exotic Weapons has been due for a revision for a little while now, to bring it up to speed with most of my modern content. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.85px;">Come to think, that's been my thought process for most of my later revisions for this project. I learn more, I want to apply what I've learned.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.85px;">What have I learned, and what have I changed? Let's take a look-see:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>New art by <a href="https://dougawright.tumblr.com/">Douglas Wright</a>!</b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>Exotic Weapon Proficiency is now half a feat,</b> also giving you your choice of +1 to Strength or Dexterity!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 14.85px;">Added the </b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>Garrote</b></span><b style="font-size: 14.85px;">!</b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"> A weapon loved by rogues, and hated by whomever the rogue is sneaking up on.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>Moved the Harpoon from Exotic to Expanded Weapons</b> and modified its stats accordingly.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 14.85px;">Modified the Double Weapon property to be more intuitive, </b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">basing it on the double scimitar found in <i>Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron</i>. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>Added more magical weapons, </b>making sure to have at least one magical weapon per each exotic weapon!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>Multiple crunch changes,</b> most weapons got at least a minor textual edit.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">The static numbers for sap and garrote still don't sit well with me, but apparently that's how weapons are done.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">All double weapons are now two-handed weapons as well, so GWF comes into play. I can imagine that's going to be pretty major for the spiked chain, but we'll see.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Honestly? To expect an eighth draft of this same project, maybe a year down the line. So it goes.</span></span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335458134829042888.post-86427824321448991392018-08-02T14:40:00.002-07:002018-08-02T14:40:30.787-07:00Magic Items: Warforged Components [Second Draft]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.dmsguild.com/product/248865/WH-Warforged-Components-Magical-items-to-integrate-into-warforged-characters" style="background-color: white; color: #244e57; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-decoration-line: none;">Available on the DM's Guild (pay what you want) at this link!</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.85px;">Sometimes, I just have something kicking around in my head that needs to be let out. A concept that just won't leave me alone until I create it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.85px;">When the <i>Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron </i>was released, I was overjoyed, but reasonably disappointed that they only included 3 options as warforged components. In previous editions, warforged components were my favorite thing about warforged, the idea that you could upgrade yourself into a whole new creature, just by the magic items you build into yourself.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.85px;">So, I went back, found all the warforged components I loved back in the day, and adapted them to 5th edition with all new rules. </span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Assigning item rarities is always wishy-washy, but I think I did a good enough job of it.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">There may be minor bugs and textual problems I didn't find, but nothing gamebreaking I hope.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Coffee is, beyond a doubt, my best friend in the whole world</span></span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335458134829042888.post-40227089213916615332018-07-25T14:46:00.001-07:002018-07-25T14:46:14.762-07:00Class: The Witch [Second Draft]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.dmsguild.com/product/248189/WH-The-Witch-a-character-class-of-natural-arcana-and-the-old-ways-of-magic" style="background-color: white; color: #244e57; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-decoration-line: none;">Available on the DM's Guild (pay what you want) at this link!</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.85px;">It's been a long time coming, but the second take on the witch is finally fully revised and ready to go!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.85px;">This time, the witch has two new subclasses, several new jinxes, the inclusion of Xanathar's spells, not to mention new, beautiful art by the talented <a href="http://diananock.tumblr.com/">Diana Nock</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/jinxville">@jinxville</a>)! </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.85px;">This is a full rules revision, and not a single part of the witch remains untouched. Let's give a rundown of what's been changed.</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">General reorganization of features, giving the class a more reasonable progression in line with existing classes</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Added rules for applying potions to food and drink with Imbue Potion</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Added a new feature: Fine Fettle</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Streamlined casting to be INT-only, though WIS casting exists as an optional rule</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Revised the spell list, adding Xanathar's spells and defining the witch's role as a support caster</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Added personality tables and roleplaying advice for familiars</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Coven of the Dark Moon has received a re-kit, adding undead and scarecrows to their repertoire</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Coven of the Full Moon is now the only coven that can heal, focusing strongly on doing excellent healing with low-level spells</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Coven of the Half Moon has a new low-level feature, and has had its capstone expanded significantly</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Coven of the Crescent Moon, a gish-witch, has been added!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Coven of the Eclipse, a subclass focusing on forbidden magic and demonology, has been added!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Added several new jinxes, and revised existing options</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>CONCERNS:</b></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Balance, as always!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">How does the class scale vs. other classes?</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">How do the subclasses measure against each other?</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Is the familiar sufficiently survivable?</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are jinxes clear in their functions? Are they well balanced against each other?</span></span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>WHAT I LEARNED:</b></span></span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Commission art for everything, all the time. All. The. Time.</span></span></li>
</ul>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335458134829042888.post-81275760149633185432018-06-14T17:37:00.001-07:002018-06-14T17:37:15.587-07:00Roguish Archetype: The Jester [Fifth Draft]<iframe height="480" src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kkx4w5lPkCnOH-AB5aHQG69c026rx3uW/preview" width="640"></iframe>
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The last time I touched this one is <i>three years</i> ago? My god, how time flies.<br />
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I've got a backlog of revisions due a mile long, and I'm not content to just edit old content. I've learned so much in the time I've spent doing this, and I aim to re-imagine old options, making them distinct, well-rounded, and complete!<br />
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The jester, for one, had a unique casting system that I always felt was somewhat lacking. It was very much "Here are some spells! Make the spells happen!" without any distinguishing system mechanics behind them.<br />
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No longer! The jester thematically was always about blind luck, silly situations, and grim humor over sheer utility, so I've re-imagined it as an extremely variant 1/3-caster that relies mostly on luck to determine its spell list.<br />
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I expect that this won't be a final version (woe betide me, a <i>sixth</i> draft?!), but it's a bold reworking that I imagine will carve more of a niche for itself than the four other jesters that have come before it.<br />
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<b>CHANGELOG:</b><br />
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<ul>
<li><b>Arcane Buffoonery is now Arcane Wit,</b> which comes with a full (if decidedly different) 1/3 caster spell progression!</li>
<li><b>Harlequin's Mask doesn't specifically reference <i>vicious mockery</i>, </b>because it created weirdness whether it or Arcane Wit should be first.</li>
<li><b>New Ability: Tumbling Fool!</b> Get some extra mileage out of your Disengage, roll around the battlefield like a maniac.</li>
<li><b>Cruel Comedy has been raised from 9th to 13th level,</b> which seems like a better space given what it does.</li>
<li><b>Most of the spells you know are completely random!</b> But don't worry, they reset every long rest.</li>
<li><b>Now uses a 1/3-caster version of warlock spell mechanics,</b> instead of eluding to it sidelong like it did before.</li>
</ul>
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<b>CONCERNS:</b></div>
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<ul>
<li>Oh, so very many.</li>
<li>Will randomized spellcasting be fun?</li>
<li>Is 1/3-caster warlock progression balanced?</li>
<li>Is Arcane Wit clear in its language as to what it does?</li>
</ul>
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<b>WHAT I LEARNED:</b></div>
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<ul>
<li>I guess if I need to revise my <i>entire catalog</i>, I might as well start right now.</li>
</ul>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335458134829042888.post-71912636218142027812018-05-28T10:19:00.000-07:002018-05-28T10:19:22.850-07:00Martial Archetype: Centurion [rough draft]<iframe height="480" src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uzbHMezmd5n1jtEQQcjV4XsZiM-JUPB8/preview" width="640"></iframe><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Sometimes in the middle of a big project, I'll start working on a small side-project just to clear my mind a little bit. The augmented actually started that way as well, believe it or not, until it spiraled off into a project even bigger than the one I was taking a break from!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">I was doing a <i>lot</i> of research into Rome for reasons I won't get into just yet, and a friend of mine expressed interest in seeing a Centurion realized in 5e. The more I researched, the more I realized how possible a Centurion fighter was, and so I took a break and decided to give it a go.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Turns out, the idea had legs. And now we've got a full-fledged Centurion fighter, ready for a test drive!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><b>FEATURES:</b></span><br />
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<ul>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>Three different postures to hold your Tower Shield,</b> depending on what you think the enemy will throw at you next!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>A wealth of options that build on core fighter mechanics, </b>creating great synergy with the base class.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>The ability to be the tankiest tank of them all,</b> just don't expect to move very quickly.</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>CONCERNS:</b></span></span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Maybe <i>too </i>tanky? It's powerful within that one focus, but it doesn't have a whole lot of latitude outside of it.</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>WHAT I LEARNED:</b></span></span></div>
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<div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Sometimes, ideas happen really quickly, and it's good to be prepared when they do!</span></span></li>
</ul>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335458134829042888.post-87166416118040289242018-04-04T20:13:00.002-07:002018-04-04T20:13:59.903-07:00Class: The Augmented [Rough Draft]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.dmsguild.com/product/238884/WH-The-Augmented-a-character-class-of-technological-selfimprovement" style="background-color: white; color: #244e57; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-decoration-line: none;">Available on the DM's Guild (pay what you want) at this link!</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">So here's what I've been working on all this time!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">It's been <i>very</i> hard to get perfect, but I finally got it into a state that I'm happy with. New classes are always tough (half-casters most of all), and building a technology-based class in a mostly non-technological game is additionally tricky!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">But enough of my woes, I'm sure you want to hear what the Augmented has to offer!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><b>FEATURES:</b></span><br />
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<ul>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>3 subclasses</b>, ranging from protecting your allies with conjured barriers to hacking into the minds of your foes!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>34 augments,</b> allowing you to customize your augmented and create something truly unique.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>A progressive system for upgrading your body as you level, </b>allowing you to build new augments into your newly-upgraded parts.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>Battlestrikes </b>that deal additional damage, and allow you to control the flow of battle.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>Personal shielding, </b>to give you that much additional survivability!</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>CONCERNS:</b></span></span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Augments are varied, and hard to balance. So far, they seem acceptable.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">This class dabbles in a lot of kits that may belong to other classes, but with enough caveats that hopefully that shouldn't matter too much. </span></span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>WHAT I LEARNED:</b></span></span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yep, this is DEFINITELY the hardest thing I've worked on so far. Balancing half-casters is no joke!</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><a href="https://dougawright.tumblr.com/">Oh, and special thanks to Douglas Wright for the artwork I commissioned! Be sure to check out his blog at this very long link.</a></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335458134829042888.post-70425018215668238052018-02-28T17:34:00.001-08:002018-02-28T17:34:45.675-08:00Otherworldly Patron: The God-King [ROUGH DRAFT]<iframe height="480" src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/12r1OK3R-S4M4c7IH_inYE01U9IEr5aow/preview" width="640"></iframe>
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Ok, hiatus over, back on track!<br />
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The God-King warlock has been one of the most challenging warlocks I've worked on to-date, and it took me a good bit of back-and-forth (and no small help from fans and friends) to get it in a workable state. Commissioned by zriegel, a Walrock-level backer on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/walrockhomebrew">my Patreon</a> (thanks again!), the God-King is an ancient Egyptian themed warlock ready for multiclassing, viable as a Stygian cultist, a devotee of Athasian Sorcerer-Kings, or as a wanderer of the wastes, using dark magics to survive the perils of the desert sands.<br />
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Pact with an ancient and forgotten God-King, receive their blessing and their curse, and enforce their fell will across the wasteland and beyond!</div>
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<b>FEATURES:</b></div>
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<ul>
<li><b>Use a Soul Jar to keep your friends close,</b> probably closer than they would like.</li>
<li><b>Transmute your wounds into Hungering Scarabs</b> and share that pain with your foes!</li>
<li><b>Use the damage you take to bolster your allies</b> with Pain Into Life!</li>
<li><b>Drink the life from those around you,</b> Desiccating all those nearby.</li>
</ul>
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<b>CONCERNS:</b></div>
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<div>
<ul>
<li>Soul Jar is probably the most ambitious level 1 I've done so far. It has a <i>lot</i> of moving parts, but between all the complication it feels balanced. At least, as far as I can tell.</li>
<li>Hungering Scarabs has no saving throw by design. It's built upon the damage math for <i>magic missile</i>, which should make it more reasonable?</li>
<li>Pain Into Life is very versatile. It's balanced around the Fiendlock level 10, but is better and worse in certain areas. </li>
</ul>
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<b>WHAT I'VE LEARNED:</b></div>
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<div>
<ul>
<li>Things will come together eventually. Sometimes I just have to back up, look at the whole, and be unafraid of weeding out anything that's not working. </li>
</ul>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335458134829042888.post-49461047631177950572017-12-23T18:26:00.003-08:002017-12-23T19:32:07.469-08:00Subrace: Yule Elf [ROUGH DRAFT]<iframe height="480" src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-QWbMG0rpRs6k1z33idNgG020CNQV8gw/preview" width="640"></iframe><br />
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Just in time for Christmas!<br />
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It's been a long time since I've done a stand-alone subrace. I had a plan to release a whole slew of elves for every environment back in the day, but got distracted halfway through and only ended up releasing two elf subraces.<br />
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This subrace is less of a serious, intended-to-feel-canon addition to what I've created, and more of a fun, seasonal offering. Who wouldn't love to play a holiday team of yule elves, banding together to rescue Santa, or to defeat their ancestral foe the Krampus once and for all?<br />
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<b>FEATURES:</b><br />
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<ul>
<li><b>Be small, but still an elf,</b> owing to a lineage that involves crafty gnomish blood.</li>
<li><b>Know all the tools, </b>because you never know what you'll need to make before Christmas!</li>
<li><b>Produce things on the fly, every short rest,</b> using slightly tweaked Downtime math.</li>
<li><b>Know who's been naughty, and who's been nice!</b> Maybe even keep a list (checking twice is optional).</li>
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<b>CONCERNS:</b></div>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Yuletide Crafting might be semi-abusible, but it doesn't seem that bad at first glance.</li>
<li>This is the only elf subrace that gets a choice of ASI, but again I don't think that breaks balance too badly. </li>
</ul>
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<b>WHAT I LEARNED:</b></div>
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<ul>
<li>When doing research for the lore I was writing, I found out that the Krampus actually harkens back to the pre-Christian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horned_God">Horned God</a> common in pagan winter celebrations. That same Horned God is also considered a central figure in Wild Hunt mythology, so that seemed like a great starting-off point to write some lore!</li>
</ul>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335458134829042888.post-62746107087999611392017-12-14T20:01:00.001-08:002017-12-14T20:01:36.789-08:00Otherworldly Patron: The Monstrosity [ROUGH DRAFT]<iframe height="480" src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B_P1FNA6qIg0Un7UDVytqZNCMYIImwzk/preview" width="640"></iframe><br />
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Well, that took a surprising amount of time!<br />
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First, sorry for the small hiatus. December took me by storm, and managed to upset my carefully-laid plans. However! We're back on track, and starting off all that is the Monstrosity, a patron I've made as a Christmas gift for a friend of mine, with whom I share a long and enduring love of films with giant rubbery Japanese monsters smashing models and cardboard cities.<br />
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In the world(s) of D&D, a monstrosity is something kaiju-like. Think of the tarrasque, neothelids, purple worms, and similar, monsters both immense and apocalyptic, terrifying portents of nature's wrath.<br />
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A pact is struck with these creatures not typically with their consent. Similar to a Great Old One pact, the monster may not even have knowledge that the pact has been struck, but rather the warlock draws on the beast's power through consuming its magically-imbued blood, offspring, or essence.<br />
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What destructive tricks does this kaiju-caster have? That leads us to:<br />
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<b>FEATURES:</b><br />
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<ul>
<li><b>Unleash your Destructive Potential</b><i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>to damage anything, anywhere!</li>
<li><b>Frighten your enemies with a Monstrous Roar, </b>as a bonus action OR a reaction.</li>
<li><b>Transform into a nightmarish Monstrosity Spawn, </b>tear up the town, and probably never get invited back. </li>
<li><b>Customize your monster form</b> and give it the terrifying visage that suits your patron.</li>
</ul>
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<b>CONCERNS:</b></div>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Balance is questionable with Unstoppable Rage and Spawn of the Monstrosity. </li>
<li>I feel like there may overall be a better way of implementing Spawn of the Monstrosity. </li>
<li>Word of Ruin involves casting a buffed 6th-level spell once per long rest, which isn't something other invocations do. I don't think it's imbalanced, per se, but it's definitely a concern. </li>
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<b>WHAT I LEARNED:</b></div>
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<li>If you hit a bump in the road and have to slow down, that's fine, just keep going! Homebrew rests for no one. </li>
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After I released both the Fathom Horror and the latest draft of the Ancient Dragon, I had a gradual realization that this material was the <i>least </i>future-proofed it could be. As can be seen in earlier drafts of both patrons, invocations found in Unearthed Arcana had changed the face of how certain warlocks functioned and their power level, and I attempted to accommodate those changes in the material I produced.<br />
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Ultimately, I decided just not to touch either option until Xanathar's Guide to Everything came out and included the finalized version of those UA options. What followed was a grueling waiting game on my part, both for Xanathar's, and to see how its invocation options were inevitably received.<br />
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Now that some of the hubbub around the new book has died down, I finally feel comfortable in continuing the revision cycle on these warlock options. The Fathom Horror is first up, because I love it so dang much, but expect the Ancient Dragon to be close behind!<br />
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All that in mind, let's see what all this time waiting led me to change:<br />
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<b>CHANGELOG:</b><br />
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<li><b>Jellify has been tweaked slightly,</b> to keep the ooze it creates from being able to eat metal.</li>
<li><b>Removed Anchor of Drowned Sailors and Aquatic Adaptation invocations, </b>as both conflicted with new material present in Xanathar's.</li>
<li><b>Anchor of Drowned Sailors is now a sidebar rule, </b>synergizing with Improved Pact Weapon found in Xanathar's. </li>
<li><b>Young Sea Drake has been rebalanced, </b>tweaking its HP, making its Torrent Breath an at-will ability, and allowing it to share its Marine Camouflage with whoever it is riding. </li>
<li><b>All invocations have been made patron-agnostic,</b> meaning that any warlock with the right features can now use these invocations!</li>
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<b>CONCERNS:</b></div>
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<li>Still unsure of how the young sea drake feels. Monster math has always been a weakpoint of mine.</li>
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<b>WHAT I LEARNED:</b></div>
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<li>When a class' whole game is about to change, maybe wait before releasing content for it. That's why I still haven't released a single ranger option. =/</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335458134829042888.post-58841477405701501922017-11-23T08:35:00.000-08:002017-11-23T08:35:59.817-08:00Roguish Archetype: The Archaeologist [Third Draft]<iframe height="480" src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CCzyVu5empBo1MXJAOL16eCvUn47XhVf/preview" width="640"></iframe><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Sometimes, with the content I produce, things get lost in the shuffle. Good, flavorful options fall behind and don't get updated properly, and don't quite get to that finished-n'-polished stage I like to have my whole library at.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">The Archaeologist rogue was definitely one of those options. As strong with flavor as it was, it never quite got to where I was happy with it. I kept coming at it, revising it, and giving up, because I just couldn't seem to make it work. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">So when a Walrock-level Patreon backer (thanks @DrMoradin!) asked me to revise this option, I knew what I had to do:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">I gutted 90% of this option, and started over fresh!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">I've learned a lot of things about making class options function well recently, and I've put everything I've learned to work here on this project. As it stands now, the Archaeologist is fully functional, well-flavored, and likely will be a treat to play. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.85px;"><b>CHANGELOG:</b></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>Field Training has been modified slightly,</b> giving a slower climbing speed that scales with existing climbing speeds.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>Intelligent Combat is now Explorer's Tricks, </b>using a number of points equal to your INT mod + 1, that confer mostly non-combat benefits as rewards for being a researcher!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>The Ruin Researcher feature, </b>a similarly non-combat feature, which grants a level of archaeology-type knowledge whenever you want to spend your short rest studying a ruin that you find yourself in. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>Get out of a bad spot with Fortune's Favor, </b>and spend those handy explorer's points to dodge some nasty nat 1's!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>Paragon of Adventure has been fully reworked,</b> and how provides all the explorer's points you could ever need, every short rest.</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>CONCERNS:</b></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Lots of changes means at least a few bugs. Always.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Explorer's Tricks are powerful, but their usage is few and far between. I wonder how they'd feel in actual play. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Fortune's Favor might not be powerful enough? Or could it be too powerful, with a full INT mod and Paragon of Adventure?</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>WHAT I LEARNED:</b></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">As much as it hurts, if it's not working, sometimes you just have to throw out what you've made and start over.</span></span></li>
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<a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/15443390"><span style="font-size: large;">November's Patreon-backer reward is here!</span></a><br />
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This month, I made a collection of five new rooms for Strongholds, all which have been requested multiple times by fans and followers. And, not to pat myself on the back too hard, but these are some of my favorite rooms so far, having really cool themes and being applicable to a wide variety of strongholds. So far, we have:<br />
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<b>FEATURES:</b><br />
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<li><b>The Maze:</b> A great way to get your enemies lost! Feeding to a minotaur or other monster is optional.</li>
<li><b>The Meditation Chamber:</b> Cool off, relax, and get some extra ki while you're at it. </li>
<li><b>The Portal Conflux:</b> Ever wanted a series of wormholes to transport you wherever you please? Well, now it's yours. </li>
<li><b>The Safe Room: </b>The world outside is a scary place, but you don't have to be there! Find perfect safety in a hidden room made of solid mithril that contains all the amenities of life.</li>
<li><b>The Topiary Garden: </b>Human servants got you down? Grow your own! And then, as an added bonus, glue them together Voltron-style to make a giant attack tree!</li>
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<b>CONCERNS:</b><br />
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<li>Maze is pretty good, but it's also very situational. Were it not for that last point, it'd definitely be worth 2 room points. </li>
<li>The Safe Room and Topiary Garden may have hidden side effects living in their verbage. Probably not, but editing is appreciated!</li>
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<b>WHAT I LEARNED:</b><br />
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<li>I've got a lot more strongholds content left in me! I've got a great idea for a much larger expansion, but that'll come later on. </li>
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