Posts about the fifth edition of the original fantasy RPG
I got to thinking: How did the Standard Array come about? I figured they did some sort of simulation. Take 4d6, drop lowest, sort them in order, and take the mean, median, or mode of each row. I wondered, though – what that would look like, and how much variation would there be. I mean,…
Moving on to the Monk, a character basically designed around Kwai Chang Caine. Monks are interesting to me because they seem to get something really cool every level. They have the power of ‘ki,’ expendable energy points that aren’t quite spell slots (or rather, they’re generic power points that might as well be slots). They…
The final entry in the series is the Eldritch Knight version of the fighter . . . but this one optimized a bit differently than the others, so was a different build due to the INT requirements for spellcasting. I went with Mountain Dwarf so that I could drop my second-highest roll into INT, while…