User:Guy/Stuff

dandwiki is trash and i am a raccoon. here's some garbage i like.

rules and meta

5e Spell Design Guide, Balanced Rolling for Hit Points, CR +1, Creative Commons, Dynamic Fall, Engineering skill, Feats with Stricter Requirements, Proxi's System Reference, Scaling Attunement Slots, Versatile Unarmed Strike

Weapon Properties: Brace, Dire, Focus

Conditions: Exposed, Ignited, Soaked, Stinky, Stuffed, PSR conditions

feats

Chuckster, Feat Master, Grenadier, Ki Caster, Lancer

spells

Cantrips (no damage): bardcraft, conjure rotting tomatoes, minor animate (more or less), minor inconvenience, minor summoning, obvious banana, phantasmal notebook, summon bee, uncanny outfitting

Cantrips (damage): attack, blastbolt, blast cantrip, bomb, bolt of time, clockwork winding, coral blast, daunting volt blade, emit spores, jolt cadaver, liberate flame, minor arcane turret (but simplify), razor tome, sandcast

1st: alter object, blast cast, ribbit, tree

2nd: critterkill, lingering poison, pictograph, self projectile

3rd: blow mind, floormaster's grasp, limb growth, uplifting fireworks

4th & 5th: leafify, phoenix dash, telefrag (but change cast time to 1 action)

Beyond 5th: duplicate self, knowledge, quincy's investiture

items

common

Armor: ceramic plate (but simplify), heavy shield

Weapon: acrobat's staff, arming sword, blowgun*, bolas, bomb*, book, boomerang, bug-catching net, common melee weapon, double flail, duplex bow, epee, katana ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), naginata, pickaxe, scalpel, scythe, shovel, slingshot, syringe sword

Tool: didgeridoo*, hunting trap*

Expendable: everfrost ale, potion of light, vending machine (& co.)

Cursed? necklace of average intelligence, pen of illiteracy, potion of initiate bar fight, weapon +½, weapon of moderate weight

Other: alabaster puppy, Auril's kiss, battle damage repair kit, bottomless waterskin, combat wand, parachute of peril, rabbit's foot, ring of photosynthesis, staff of amplifying, vest of safety, wand of minstrels

uncommon

Armor: dragon bone armor, hide of the bear spirit

Weapon: boomerang of retrieval, crystal spear, ritual dagger, sword of shapes, Zeus's belt of bolts

Expendable: bottled bees, climber's chalk, healing bolt, muffin of might, teleportation bead, wardstone

Cursed? dunestalker legs, false potion, harlok's skeleton, identified cube, magic item of spell, movable rod, ring of dark vision

Other: apprentice's eyepiece, bag of colding, blanket of warmness, bracer of silvering, cap of squirrel kinship, corrosive bomb, disposable ring of protection, faerie lantern, falcane, false flag, focus rod, glove of shocking, medallion of armor, ring of deception rename it tho, ring of weapon storage

rare

Cursed: lead alchemy jug

Other: boots of thunderous entry, gloves of visible surfaces

beyond rare

Armor: nidoplate, pufferfish scale armor (but it also gives you a swim speed)

Weapon: long long sword

Expendable: holy hand grenade of antioch

Other: falcon's fist, ghostly eye, immortal's lantern, portal bracers, the stone basin's vestige

creatures

Races: colossus, duelsoulblade shadow vampelf, kong, namekian, nocturne, yata

CR 0: bee, flaming tundra cod, leech, sockmimic, repair drone, turtle, venus flytrap

CR 1/8: alebrijes, armadillo, capybara, cherry wisp, ember rabbit, giant beetle, pagefiend, tiny wooden soldier

CR 1/4: animated cauldron, cattle, card golem (but ignore the variants), druidic initiate, fire sprite, giant slug, iridescent beetle, porpoise, rust monster skeleton

CR 1/2: giant bee, selkie

CR 1: fireball fly (giant), fireball fly swarm, giant horse, guard captain, living armor, stablemaster, thunderfoot rat

CR 2: mercenary mage

CR 4: samurai

CR 20 and beyond: living dimension, walking castle

food for thought

Knave 2e, Tunnel Goons, Eclipse Phase, Microscope

Areas, Balanced Stats, camel's drink, Compact Classes, Concise Weapons, death finger, elemental weapon, Flexible Ability Score Increase, entropy, faust's card flourish, finger gun, heavy flamer, More Useful Intelligence, User:Revival/Guy's 5e Criticisms, etc

stuff i dislike

For what it's worth I've done things about most of these:

• Almost all of this
• Musky meter
• How often a random CR gets boldly slapped on a monster (anywhere, not just on this wiki); at least look at DMG'14 pg 274 if you haven't already
• Machine-generated images
• the unpopularity of Side Initiative (DMG'14 page 270)
• the paralyzed condition, and action-denial generally
• 5e's default rules for initiative & turns
• 5e's default rules for downtime
• 5e's default rules for carrying capacity
• 5e's ability score imbalance
• Pathfinder 2e. There's so many good ideas, but so many bad ideas. It's like they never realized what made PF1 so great.
• I cannot fault D&D's leaning towards a wider, softer, and more casual market it. But I can still dislike it.
• Losing a fight = death = make a new character, and that this most likely happens to inexperienced players who are the most likely to lose interest when imposed with this hurdle (and/or would take the longest to make a new character)
• This thing:
  4.67

  (3 votes)

late game balance

• At 13th level a full casting class can teleport across the world, become ethereal, bring back almost anyone who died within the past century, and/or make a simulacrum and more. It only gets more ridiculous with every level.
• At 13th level a martial class gets slightly better attacks or saves.

There is no late-game balance in 5e or 3e. While I highlighted classes, this assertion extends to items and creatures.

I have little faith in official content made for these levels, let alone homebrew. I can still sometimes appreciate the ideas that go into them at least.