Mystical Inspiration for 5E Spellcasters
My Swords & Sorceries campaign and adventures are inspired by myth and history. I am fascinated by the challenge and opportunities of playing 5E adventures in a setting that evokes the mythologies that inspired D&D, and that inspired the sword & sorcery fiction that inspired D&D. In my campaign, a large part ...
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The Bladesharp: A Rogue Subclass for 5E
One inspiration for my Swords & Sorceries adventures and the Broken Empire setting was Fritz Leiber's stories of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. The Mouser especially feels like he doesn't quite have a niche in 5E. He is clearly a rogue, expert at stealth and burglarly. But he is also a famously expert swordsman, and not ...
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The Shieldbearer: A Fighter Subclass for 5E
The Broken Empire world of Swords & Sorceries is inspired by ancient history as seen through the lens of Fifth Edition. Fighters have the "Protection" fighting style, of course, but I want a kind of elite fighter that fully evokes the heart of ancient warfare: the phalanx that dominated battlefields for millennia before ...
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The Summoning Domain: A Cleric Subclass for 5E
First published on Patreon. Summoning spirits and monsters has always been the province of arcane spellcasters. That leaves a gap in 5E that seems critical to me: gods and goddesses that represent the underworld or the abyss, the mysteries of death and spiritualism, and the mystical connection between the world we see with ...
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Path of the Blooded: A Barbarian Subclass for 5E
First published on Patreon. The barbarian has always been my favorite D&D class to play, but one thing irks me in the 5E version and its paths, even the berserker: their total self-control. Where is the red rage that takes a warrior's blood-addled mind until her sword can't tell friend from foe? Hence the Path of the ...
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