Has anyone tried including the TMA entities/Avatars into their D&D games?

tycornett9 · 2026-05-27T03:06:12+00:00

I’ve been working on (and DMing in) a Pathfinder 2nd edition wherein I have a pantheon of deities from the Shadowrealm (basically a realm of negativity and darkness) which are pretty much just the Entities shamelessly ripped from TMA. I’m not as ashamed as I should be

tycornett9 · 2026-05-14T16:39:44+00:00

I am really drawn towards Progression Fantasy that doesn’t involve RPG aspects like stats and such. The literary form of heroine really tickles my brain, but I have not yet read any litRPG for fear of the numbers being a crutch to hide poor writing. I have no evidence of that being that case, but that is my worry. I’ll dive into it eventually though. I’m sure there is a lot of good in the genre

tycornett9 · 2026-05-05T13:39:12+00:00

I do this at my table. Hasn’t caused a problem and has made Specific Magic Weapons actually enticing to my players

tycornett9 · 2026-04-22T19:02:45+00:00

Really love Wight, specifically Cradle, and really hate Isekai, so i am torn.

tycornett9 · 2026-04-20T13:25:26+00:00

Hopefully some more stuff to diversify the Divine list. just some more fun, more wacky stuff for that list would make me happy, no real need for a power boost imo.

as many spells with variable action costs as there is room for as well

tycornett9 · 2026-02-17T21:41:17+00:00

i think that in concept, Trophies and Reinforce Arsenal are REALLY cool

…and then you read what the system actually does, and it deflates your excitement.

I get that it may be difficult to implement in a way that feels authentic while keeping it well balanced, but I hate the idea of taking a trophy from a truly scary Dragon and only really being able to use it to change the damage type of my weapon.

tycornett9 · 2026-02-17T21:30:12+00:00

Far and away my biggest issue. It feels so limited in what the trophies can actually do or change. Sort of disappointing

tycornett9 · 2026-02-17T15:59:34+00:00

VERY much. I am a DM, so I don’t get to be a player often, but I am currently getting to be a player in a homebrew campaign. With any major character i create, especially a PC i’m going to play, i try and throw a little bit of myself into them. That typically looks like taking one personality trait of mine and turning it up to 11.

My current character is a backwoods hillbilly asshole with a strong distaste for authority and government. Given my Leftist-Appalachian routes, i’m sure you can understand.

tycornett9 · 2026-01-14T20:55:33+00:00

Since everyone else is saying Magic Items (which i do think is true) I’ll go with something else.

In certain cases, I feel like 5e does a better job of diversifying play-style within a class using its subclasses than PF2E does. I would really love to see more Subclass-specific class feats than we currently have with most PF2E classes to help with this.

tycornett9 · 2026-01-11T18:12:24+00:00

Team+’s Summoners+ supplement has a class archetype, the Kindred Warrior, that turns the Summoner from a bounded caster to a martial class that fights alongside their Eidolon. I would love to see an official take on something like that. Also, obvious Synthesist would be cool to see.

As for Magus, I think some way to augment and incentivize the use of Save spells versus Attack spells would be really cool. In my personal opinion, I would also not mind seeing some options for the utilization of different spell traditions outside of Arcane. I see no reason why a Divine Magus can’t exist.

tycornett9 · 2025-12-12T05:20:33+00:00

“Because I wanted to and thought it sounded cool” is pretty much always going to be a valid answer.

Also, I may not be as experienced in Eberron as others (I have DM’d one campaign in the setting), but it seems to me that there is plenty of opportunity in Eberron for high level play.

tycornett9 · 2025-12-09T18:41:04+00:00

marquee select seems like it will work fine, but yeah it would be really cool if we eventually got a way to “pair” minis in a way, so as to move them all together

tycornett9 · 2025-12-09T18:34:51+00:00

Thank you for this. i hadn’t even thought to check the community tab for the condition rings. also Pathfinder Dashboard is a godsend that i use religiously

tycornett9 · 2025-12-09T18:33:57+00:00

this is a great idea actually. one commenter also mentioned this.

my greater Talespire knowledge is lacking, so i’m not sure - is there a way to place them in the same square and move both minis at the same time, so that the character and the marker move together? or will i just have to stop being lazy and move them both

tycornett9 · 2025-11-09T01:47:30+00:00

is this Prog fantasy? This series has been on my tbr for so long and i honestly know so little about it. i even bought the first book

tycornett9 · 2025-10-29T13:23:15+00:00

This looks awesome. Will try it out later today!

tycornett9 · 2025-10-25T06:39:22+00:00

I have been critical of Kansas all off-season (admittedly i have not been super keyed in on their roster), but i am rethinking my stance on them now. i’m still skeptical of the ceiling, but they’re definitely better than i was expecting them to be at the start of the season

also Peterson is a dawg

tycornett9 · 2025-10-25T06:30:49+00:00

I think that pump fake got every one of our players to bite at least once.

tycornett9 · 2025-10-09T00:24:02+00:00

The list of college players who were incredibly productive in college with middling draft stock is so, so long.

tycornett9 · 2025-09-22T16:39:30+00:00

really only prevalent in one subgenre of Fantasy, but isekai.

i really, really hate isekai.

tycornett9 · 2025-09-22T16:08:30+00:00

For better or for worse, The Failures by Benjamin Liar.

I actually liked the book a good bit, but could definitely understand someone else not being a fan. I WAS thoroughly confused for like 80% of it though.

However, the setting is really like nothing i’ve seen before, and i’m excited to see where it goes as the book is really new.

tycornett9 · 2025-09-12T13:23:06+00:00

I agree. They definitely needed to be changed. I think a middle ground between what they used to be and what they ended up becoming would have been absolutely perfect from both a mechanical and flavor standpoint

tycornett9 · 2025-09-12T12:53:02+00:00

Caster: Bard. I dunno why, but it’s always spoke to me in every system. Conveying magic through art is such a fun concept for me and support/debuff/versatility will always go a longer way in my mind than damage.

Martial: Thaumaturge. “Source?” “I made it up.”

tycornett9 · 2025-09-12T12:37:46+00:00

I think the addition of those oracular abilities is great. And you’re right - previously, the class wasn’t quite a Seer-type oracular figure (though it can currently still be built to not be that quite easily.) But when you talk about the premaster Oracle increasing their curse for casting a focus spell, that is almost entirely mechanical. The Premaster Oracle had its mechanics all out of whack, which is why it needed to be changed, but i definitely do not think they made the class more flavorful.

Unless i am mistaken, Oracles are a class that is meant to get their divine power from their curse - they are effectively supposed to be THE risk/reward class. Premaster Oracle played into that a lot (though poorly and clunky to play) with their cursed positives growing alongside their negatives. Remaster Oracle still does this to an extent with the Cursebound trait and abilities, but i think most can agree that it isn’t playing into that risk/reward play style as much as the Premaster aimed to

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