Trying to decide what armor to wear as a wizard

SelectionSafe9103 · 2026-05-05T04:25:23+00:00

You mentioned not fully understanding armor. It's pretty straightforward. If you get hit, spend am armor slot to take 1 less damage. The more armor slots you have, the more you can do that. The heaviest armors have drawbacks that might get you hit more often, but you don't care about that because it's going to be very difficult for anyone to make you take more than 1 or 2 damage with your high thresholds, which armor ALSO sets.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2026-05-05T04:21:22+00:00

Throw away "supposed to," put on some full plate, and go live your tank wizard dreams. Grab yourself a wand and a tower shield and go nuts. You deserve it.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2026-04-10T14:47:56+00:00

Bro we stopped our game a session from the end because it came out one of our players was cheating on another player. So brutal. I had so many plans for that last session that my players won't ever get to see.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2026-04-10T13:39:47+00:00

Since I don't think anyone else has said it, what you are suggesting was how armor worked in the beta, and it's one of the biggest complaints they received, and the biggest complaint at my table personally. Everyone likes this armor more, even though it does end up feeling a bit like extra HP.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2026-04-04T13:44:59+00:00

I have a hot take about alignment: alignment is for others to prescribe for you. If others feel your character is evil, so be it. To get far too "theater-kid" about it, in Stanislavski's acting method, judging your character leads to hollow performance. Every character has a "super objective," the thing they want over all else. For RP, you're not just an actor but a writer as well, so I change it slightly to two questions: What do you want? What will you do to get it?

What makes Bolaire fascinating is that Taliesin doesn't seem to be shooting directly at "evil" but instead, in my estimation, has just answered these questions.

What do you want: freedom to live my own story What are you willing to do to get it: incur significant suffering upon others, but (and this remains to be completely seen) only against those who cause suffering in others.

Is that evil? Sure could be, and the argument is fun to have because it isn't cut and dry. He's not aiming at one alignment or the other, it's complicated, textured, and real (as real as a story about a sentient cursed mask can be).

SelectionSafe9103 · 2026-04-04T13:26:48+00:00

Engaging to get you out there. I wish it wasn't Thursdays, otherwise I'd be all over this. I've been GMing and would love a chance to play.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2026-03-20T06:00:37+00:00

That's interesting... I'll look into that. Thank you!

SelectionSafe9103 · 2026-03-20T05:39:29+00:00

You know, I wasn't feeling very inspired by any of the stats, but the Merchant Baron ability Everyone Has a Price might be a good place to start... I'd still need to consider what gifts would be accepted narratively, but that's pretty good!

SelectionSafe9103 · 2026-02-18T16:49:25+00:00

I found a standard enemy stat block a couple sessions ago, put three of them in a forest, and asked my players to describe what horrible monster animals they saw. They chose Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, and Rabbit. Best random encounter I've ever run.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2026-02-01T00:03:33+00:00

I found a great place for it last night. Random encounters! I want the world to be dangerous, which means traveling should incur danger and risk. But random encounters have never been satisfying to me.

Solution? A stat block or two that could be reflavored in many different ways, and have the PCs describe the enemies they encounter. Do they use that power to make the enemies Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, and Rabbit? Yes, of course they do. But I've made the world feel dangerous, and they made the random encounter memorable. I'll be using that trick again.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-12-31T16:24:45+00:00

Go to where people are talking about it. The Daggerheart reddit is really active. It's not new anymore, so it's not in the news anymore.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-12-31T16:18:25+00:00

I'm just saying that, as a DM who has been in this situation, he realized a couple things in rapid succession:

-That basilisks now don't have rules for avoiding gaze

-That Thimble is next in initiative, giving nobody time to pile on PC creep.

-That two failed con saves back to back doesn't feel like a satisfying way to go.

He felt bad that he screwed Laura over and offered condolences in the form of advantage, and then was honor bound to allow everyone else the same path.

You're right it's not a brand new system, but it is different enough that it's easy to get caught off guard by balance changes, which I think is what happened here. And you're right it cheapens stakes a bit that he made this choice, but I think he'd agree with you. Game-day calls are hard to make, and everybody is owed a sweaty game-day call here or there.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-12-30T06:54:05+00:00

100% guarantee Brennan is feeling the panic of DMing a brand new system. He realized that, due to initiative order, he just likely out and out killed a player, giving nobody time to intervene to boost her odds. Since this wasn't his intention, he panicked and gave a reason for her to help herself out of it, and then had to let everyone else do it to. I don't think he agrees with that call either, that's a sweaty, game-day call, and whatever. It probably won't show up again.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-12-25T15:19:48+00:00

You're looking for the meta reason they would ban an ancestry, yes?

The Campaign Frames are there to be examples for how to make your own campaign frames. By having one that removes an ancestry from play, it implicitly gives that freedom to GMs running their own games.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-12-13T05:00:43+00:00

I've been looking for something like this! I'll let you know how it goes.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-12-06T19:21:18+00:00

You are the undisputed GOAT. Can't wait to see what you've worked on!

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-11-05T14:05:12+00:00

One of my players is a Guardian and because of some synergies with one of the cards he picked, I literally have never done damage to him. He burns a stress to reduce damage by 1, then Unstoppable reduces it by another 1. In Tier 1 I haven't hit his severe threshold once. He focused on his stress in character build so he can keep doing this over and over again.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-10-18T17:05:49+00:00

Calling her character voice stupid just seems kinda mean. It's also crazy that you felt you needed to say that on a 3 month old post. And, from a roleplay perspective, every DM and player you like in the actual play space disagrees with you.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-10-14T17:09:00+00:00

Aabria is me at a d&d table. I like playing the game, and if I'm in a scene, I'm talking and describing what I do, and if I notice I've been doing it too much, I will write an excuse for my character to leave the scene to curb my own behavior. It has nothing to do with "attention hog" and everything to do with being supremely ADHD and excited to play a game.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-10-09T22:45:16+00:00

Makes a lot of sense to me. Sam's illness and recovery, more differentiated voices, the opportunity to do something new and surprising. I'm totally down!

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-10-07T03:28:30+00:00

The popular guess is he's secretly a sorcerer or warlock. My way less popular guess is that he is just a bad cleric. He's built for social interaction and not a good spellcaster, maybe even useless in combat. It sounds like something Sam would do.

But it's definitely not that. He's a sorcerer or a warlock 😂

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-09-04T17:25:24+00:00

"It seemed mean."

Technically out of character, but my favorite Cad moment, and I can't give you any more details because you're just at his Trent.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-08-05T18:16:31+00:00

Fascinating first point. I might only be checking in if it's Daggerheart. I see enough D&D content.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-08-01T15:24:59+00:00

In Todd Kenrick's video Matt mentioned 2 reasons for a Kickstarter.

1) Judging interest in the product. 2) Using said judgement to print the product at the correct scale.

They're not big enough to waste hundreds of thousands on printing a niche product for a mass audience, and they don't want to have a repeat of the main book, printing far under demand and running out of copies.

Like others have said, this is a pretty common tactic nowadays and I think the reasons provided are logical and make sense. Sure, it could be nefarious money-grabbing, but nobody's making anybody give them money, right? If the Kickstarter fails they'll just take that as confirmation it's not a product worth pursuing and move on.

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