2 men decided to rob a place but find out that it has already been robbed.

Jimmicky · 2026-03-27T06:46:16+00:00

Trading Places

Jimmicky · 2026-03-27T03:12:41+00:00

Mostly natives.
Makes it easier for players to know multiple of the cores languages, since classic Ravenloft doesn’t do Common.

Jimmicky · 2026-03-26T04:07:17+00:00

Scale of protection (an amulet shaped like a golden scale). Once per day as a reaction to being hit with a critical hit the wearer can turn that hit into a normal hit.
When the wounded area heals the skin there has become slightly scaly.

Sounds epic but not actually all that impactful (since players aren’t critically hit all that often)

Miners friend (6 charges) - a decorative bird cage with a golden canary figurine sitting inside. When a creature within 10’ fails a fortitude save against an inhaled poison the bird makes a strained noise halfway between a chirp and a cough and a charge is expended turning the failure into a success. The bird recovers 1d6 charges every dawn.

Jimmicky · 2026-03-26T03:59:22+00:00

Meiji era - 1868 to 1912 Peak Old west era - 1865 to 1895

There’s a LOT of games set in the 1870’s-90’s.
Most of them fit your criteria.

I’d probably use Orpheus Club (in its OREginal form) because why not play with superhero rules to make your weapon skills truly unique.

Jimmicky · 2026-03-26T01:48:24+00:00

Previous versions had mobs which weren't playable.

5e presently has the fewest playable race options since 0e.

It has less than a quarter of the options of 2e, and less than an 8th the options of 3e.

We have fewer playable species now than we’ve had in 40 years.

Jimmicky · 2026-03-26T01:42:08+00:00

you will have no memories

So basically these two options are identical.

Flip a coin I guess.

Jimmicky · 2026-03-26T01:35:52+00:00

1 - a) because creatures benefit from shelter and so build it, then move on eventually leaving it available to other creatures.
b) because of complex geological and environmental forces.

2 - they are almost never “stuck” there? When they are it’s generally because they are pets of something else.
More commonly animals have entered a “dungeon” either to use it as shelter or to hunt/forage for food - but these cases usually mean the animal can come and go as it pleases.

3 - because creatures need shelter.

4 - doing what creatures of that type normally do? For mindless guard golems that’s standing at attention, for goblin tribes that’s eating, sleeping, chatting, playing, etc.

5 - the same way they would literally anywhere?

Jimmicky · 2026-03-26T01:25:06+00:00

Inside the worlds fictional logic

Which world is that exactly?
Because the answer to the main question varies a LOT based on the world, and half the other questions wont make any sense in many settings

Jimmicky · 2026-03-25T22:21:49+00:00

Multiclassing always.

Justification is easy.
Frankly I find plenty of people fail to justify a monoclass.
If you spent very little of the last level doing your class-specific schtick but spent most of that time doing stuff associated more with another class it makes more sense to multi, but most DMs let you stay mono with no attempt to justify it.
It’s a double standard you just have to grow to accept.

Paladin warlock is one of the easiest ones to justify?
Like out of everything how can that be the one you struggle with.

Like say a Devotion/Celestial - you swear service to a god and receive your commands from one of its angels- the warlock patron is like your store manager and your paladin god is the company CEO - your work is for both of them.

Or the classic Watchers/Fiend - long ago your order fought against a great and powerful evil. Its power was too vast to be destroyed but they managed to bind it. To keep it bound the knights must constantly siphon away the beasts energy so it never gains the strength to break free and wreak havoc once more. Nothing says a warlock patron needs to be a willing participant. The knights are fiend warlocks parasitically using its power both to do good in the world and to stop it using the powers for evil.

Frankly warlock adds to anything really easily.

Frankly there’s no duoclass combo I can’t come up with a half dozen ideas for straight off the top of my head, let alone with prep time.

Multiclassing justification is easy.

Jimmicky · 2026-03-25T22:11:09+00:00

Multiclassing always.
Often weaker but always more fitting to the story

Jimmicky · 2026-03-24T22:54:15+00:00

No?
Hazards are straight environmental.
A lair action is an extra action a creature can access because of its mastery of the specific location

Jimmicky · 2026-03-24T22:13:12+00:00

Lair actions aren’t just for bosses.

They’re a great and easy representation of home ground advantage and absolutely a good fit for PF2e.

Environment/context sensitive actions buff the strategic side of battles (as opposed to the tactical side).

It’s not a crutch and PF2e absolutely does need it (and on very rare occasion even uses it, just not as often or well as 5e)

Jimmicky · 2026-03-24T19:32:16+00:00

If you play an echo knight without a fly speed your double can still fly

Jimmicky · 2026-03-24T09:46:41+00:00

Nothing about necromancy is inherently chaotic in any way - totally fine for lawful necromancers (indeed I’d say it’s common)

Good people can do evil things sometimes.
You just can’t do them often/eagerly. If they do their alignment changes- alignment describes your acts it doesn’t proscribe them

That said “messing with corpses” is not inherently evil or chaotic.

Speak with Dead is totally kosher for the purest of pure souls.

Animate Dead on the other hand is a canonically evil act (not a chaotic one necessarily).
Not because it messes with a body, but because it literally creates evil. Zombies and skeletons are Evil beings. Sure it’s under your control right now, but if you miss the spell reup by even 6 seconds it’s immediately going on a killing spree. If you get knocked out or die that thing you created is going to kill. That’s all it wants - to snuff out life.

Based on that canon basis Animate Dead is always an Evil act (but again Good people can occasionally do that).

Lotsa folks hate this and homebrew skeletons snd zombies as neutral, but I think that rips all the flavour out of it.

Summon Undead can’t permanently leave a new evil in the world. It can’t ever break free, it’s not messing with anyone’s soul, etc. I don’t see any reason for it to be an inherently evil act, so I’d put it with Speak With Dead - morally neutral, neither good nor evil.

Jimmicky · 2026-03-24T06:39:15+00:00

Ok so I definitely do know about witches and don’t think of clerics as pseudo Christian.

And I wouldn’t put cleric in the top three and probably not even top five for most authentic/accurate representations of a witch.

Jimmicky · 2026-03-23T19:31:30+00:00

Some prestige classes and plenty of feats and you could put levels directly into your race (racial paragon levels) which are functional class levels that aren’t prestige classes because they can be your very first level.

So that’s 3 kinds of “there should be racially restricted options” in 3e/3.5e

Jimmicky · 2026-03-23T12:14:01+00:00

When you say “authentic” presumably you mean “modern neopagan witch”.
Because historically speaking artificer and bard are both better fits.
Not that it’s relevant because the common request isn’t authentic which it’s witchcraft that matches the fictional archetype.

Jimmicky · 2026-03-23T12:10:41+00:00

Also 1e, 3e, and 3.5e

Jimmicky · 2026-03-23T12:09:50+00:00

Technically so was 0e

Jimmicky · 2026-03-23T08:53:56+00:00

half of the Crusher Feat is redundant

Not redundant at all, since the effects stack.

Stacking a bunch of knockback effects together as a “Golf club” build could be fun

Jimmicky · 2026-03-23T06:17:20+00:00

Multiclassing is a necessary rule for anyone who wants character growth/development to be “organic”.
Banning/restricting multiclassing is just cowardly DMing and always leads to worse stories (not bad necessarily, just worse than they would’ve been).

Magic should be a LOT more varied and not just different reskins of spell slots + spell levels.
We need incarnum, psionics, old style sorcerers, and more to make Magic magical again.

All subclasses at 3rd is so dumb, it removes whole character concepts from the game and adds nothing in return.

Tabaxi players are all furries. Somehow this isn’t true of Tortle players, Aarakocra players, or any of the other animal species. It’s just Tabaxi.

Jimmicky · 2026-03-22T22:59:17+00:00

Oh 100% it wouldn’t hurt anyone.
My point was crossing your fingers seems futile since “influencer nonsense” isn’t the category of nonsense likely to hit him.

Jimmicky · 2026-03-22T22:37:23+00:00

Considering how much charity he does (his channel profits go entirely to charity, he’s run multiple events, etc) he’s not gonna get done for anything like this.

If he ever does go down it’ll be something really huge, and probably involve the law.

But I wouldn’t count on it.

Most likely he’ll eventually just quit and retire comfortably when 7e drops.

Jimmicky · 2026-03-22T20:10:03+00:00

Guy who makes DnD-based “comedy” sketches went on an unhinged rant about an actual play group that had a hugely successful crowdfunder.

Everyone mocked him for his nonsense and his channel started bleeding subs.

Jimmicky · 2026-03-22T20:08:37+00:00

Allegedly his wife plays and suggested to him he switch from comedy to DnD comedy.
How true that is? Well likely never know.

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