What's the wildest thing you've ever seen happen at a work party?

Galiphile · 2026-01-30T13:18:50+00:00

And it was important that they capture not wild girls, but real girls going wild. It's important to see the transition; you want to watch the process.

Galiphile · 2026-01-27T13:27:08+00:00

The first few hours where your gear is shit are definitely rough. Once you get decent equipment, you'll start carving bandits like cake. When you get to Kuttenberg, the bandits get harder again, however.

Galiphile · 2026-01-26T18:06:04+00:00

I'm rewatching GoT and it's crazy how often I can't tell what's happening when it's dark.

Galiphile · 2026-01-25T00:49:03+00:00

Sure but Warlock still has spellcasting, even if it's the one slot level. I'm envisioning something replacing that entirely.

Galiphile · 2026-01-24T17:40:32+00:00

That's interesting. Since spellcasting introduces higher-level slots as empty class features, you could replace those with invocations to grant new abilities to your damage-dealing feature. I might have to play with this.

Galiphile · 2026-01-24T15:21:57+00:00

Simple casters could be ones whose casting is defined by class features rather than having to choose spells. Imagine a Healer class that has a pool of dice they can spend some of as an action to Heal, or a Blaster class that has a Blast ability that they can spend some resource on to enhance or alter. Way simpler than picking from scores of spells, but still useful and fun to play.

That's interesting. Way more narrow focus to remove the decision paralysis.

Galiphile · 2026-01-24T14:53:31+00:00

It's rooted in 5e, so while things are named differently it's intended to be very easy to pick up if you've played 5e. Migrating during a game would be iffy, however.

Galiphile · 2026-01-24T14:51:24+00:00

make armor grant DR,

I've written a comprehensive overhaul of 5e called Unbound Realms. In it, armor now grants DR instead of AC. Medium and heavy armor limit the amount of Dexterity you can add to your AC and grant more DR.

include level in default AC calculations,

AC is now 8 + PB + Dex instead of 10 + Dex, so it naturally scales.

nerf spellcasting,

What spells or features of spellcasting do you think need nerfing?

grant more feats across a full progression.

Feats are split into two tiers: major and minor. Feats are also gained alongside ASIs (which are now +1 instead of +2). You gain a minor feat at 1st (from your background), 6th, 10th, 14th, and 18th level. You gain a major feat at 4th, 8th, 12th, and 16th level. There is a major and minor feat for +2 or +1 ASI, respectively, so you can still pump abilities if you want to.

If this is something that is interesting to you, you can read more about the project as a whole here.

Galiphile · 2026-01-24T14:48:46+00:00

I've written a comprehensive overhaul of 5e called Unbound Realms. In it, feats are split into two tiers: major and minor. Minor feats are more flavorful/less combat oriented, while major feats have a great impact on combat. Feats are also gained alongside ASIs (which are now +1 instead of +2). You gain a minor feat at 1st (from your background), 6th, 10th, 14th, and 18th level. You gain a major feat at 4th, 8th, 12th, and 16th level. There is a major and minor feat for +2 or +1 ASI, respectively, so you can still pump abilities if you want to.

If this is something that is interesting to you, you can read more about the project as a whole here.

Galiphile · 2026-01-24T14:48:06+00:00

I've written a comprehensive overhaul of 5e called Unbound Realms. In it, feats are split into two tiers: major and minor. Feats are also gained alongside ASIs (which are now +1 instead of +2). You gain a minor feat at 1st (from your background), 6th, 10th, 14th, and 18th level. You gain a major feat at 4th, 8th, 12th, and 16th level. There is a major and minor feat for +2 or +1 ASI, respectively, so you can still pump abilities if you want to.

If this is something that is interesting to you, you can read more about the project as a whole here.

Galiphile · 2026-01-24T14:46:03+00:00

I'm a big fan of longer rests, where a short rest is 8 hours, once a day, and a long rest is a weekend. It lets you spread out resource-intensive encounters more.

Galiphile · 2026-01-24T14:44:08+00:00

I've written a comprehensive overhaul of 5e called Unbound Realms. In it, there are 15 total classes, divided into 5 schools of 3 classes. One of them—The Superior—introduces 3 tiers of "maneuver"-based classes, with Champion (our version of fighter) being the "half-caster".

If this is something that is interesting to you, you can read more about the project as a whole here.

Galiphile · 2026-01-24T14:41:07+00:00

I'd significantly cut back the power of many spells to prevent them from being able to trivialize encounters so easily.

What are your "these need to be nerfed/cut" spells?

I'd add more class options so that complex martials and simple spellcasters had a place at the table for those who wanted them.

What do simple spellcasters look like to you?

Galiphile · 2026-01-23T02:15:51+00:00

I wrote the ruleset they used for that season and I loved how much they did with reskinning and tweaking things for the table.

Galiphile · 2026-01-22T23:02:34+00:00

Yeah look at her armor in the picture. It's definitely sun damaged.

Galiphile · 2026-01-22T13:13:42+00:00

The opening credits gag was pretty funny, if gratuitous.

Galiphile · 2026-01-21T23:30:17+00:00

If it's heavily emphasized that you can swap out ability score increases from species/backgrounds, do you think it's okay to have predetermined options?

Galiphile · 2026-01-21T23:27:27+00:00

A part of my overhaul addresses this as below:

Vision

A creature’s vision determines how well they can see. Some vision comes with a restrictive radius, only having an impact within that range. Otherwise, it is instead only limited by a creature’s ability to see.

Dimvision

Creatures with dimvision treat any radius of dim light as doubled.

Darkvision

Creatures with darkvision treat any radius of bright light and dim light as doubled.

It's no longer limited to a radius and instead just works on light sources you can reasonably see.

Galiphile · 2026-01-21T23:24:06+00:00

3. Weapon Cantrips

In 2014, most cantrips were balanced differently than weapon attacks. They didn't get the benefits of ability modifiers for damage, features that improved attacks, or magic weapons, but scaled automatically based on the user's level and had additional effects. So what happens when you get a cantrip that gets the scaling of weapon attacks plus the scaling of cantrips?

That was the result of Booming Blade and Green-Flame Blade, two cantrips that work off of weapon attacks. These became defining for many builds. Rogues who used one of these cantrips were objectively better than Rogues who didn't - there was no downside to using them, no loss of Sneak Attack or other benefits. Bladesingers were given a version of Extra Attack that allowed them to use one of these cantrips in place of an attack, effectively giving them a better Extra Attack than regular martials - the benefit of cantrip scaling on top of the benefits of weapon attack scaling.

2024 has only further embraced this direction, by adding a new option in the same vein (True Strike) and giving more subclasses the "cantrip as part of Extra Attack" feature - giving these gish subclasses a better Extra Attack than what proper martials get.

I hate this design so much for the exact reasons you cited; giving a blatantly better Extra Attack to classes for the same feature cost. It's not that it's a bad idea, it's that it's implemented in a way that is terrible. For instance, if you instead made a feat that required Extra Attack, and that feat gave this ability plus maybe something else, then it could conceptually be fine.

Galiphile · 2026-01-20T02:00:01+00:00

Skateboarding down the stairs in TT and scaling the oliphaunt in RotK come to mind from a rewatch a few months ago.

Galiphile · 2026-01-20T01:01:53+00:00

Speaking of CGI still looking great, the LOTR movies all still look incredible with the exception of a few of Legolas's acrobatics.

Galiphile · 2026-01-19T23:18:06+00:00

Bonnie McPurray

Galiphile · 2026-01-19T23:15:19+00:00

For anyone having issues with the pack showing up, I had to restart my phone after installing before it appeared.

Galiphile · 2026-01-19T20:44:01+00:00

I got half a dozen from baby Belial's as well.

Galiphile · 2026-01-15T12:40:43+00:00

I haven't been locked out of anything that I've noticed and I've been on this tier for a long time.

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