Image from Forgot My Dice, Backgrounds for the Wild Over at Forgot My Dice, the proprietors published a few new backgrounds. For various reasons, I’ve been on a background kick recently, and I posted a guide to using points to balance backgrounds. Seeing his backgrounds, the first thing that struck me is that the first one…
The latest Unearthed Arcana came out recently, and its topic is Feats. Now, feats are interesting to me, especially in 5e. They’re supposed to be boosts, not taken in any particular order, roughly equivalent in value to the +2 to one stat or +1 to two stats that you eschew by taking one. This particular Unearthed Arcana…
As I have been working on the Heretical RPG project, I’ve been struggling with backgrounds. It’s not that there aren’t a ton of them out there already – there are. But they’re also not clearly something I can just, well, steal. It’s one thing to go out and get permission both implicit (via the OGL)…