A new Warlock subclass, they've made a deal with an entity that dwells out of reach of the light, deep in the oceans, swimming in the sunless seas, or from the stagnate waters of the underdark, these patrons are lost and forgotten by the world, but their dark messengers are no less deadly for it.
A patreon requested Warlock with a rather peculiar inspiration that took awhile to flesh out, but I think it's managed to find a unique and quite warlock-y spot on the roster.
Let me know...
2020-10-06 18:51:51 +0000 UTC
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So this is probably where I wanted to be at the last update; Alchemy isn't "done" (and won't be as I'll be adding new stuff as long as crafting is a thing I'm sure :) ) but it is a little more complete and functional.
- I added a handful of new potions, and rebalanced some of them to what I use in my games.
- I added a few oils (burning oil, flametongue oil)
- I added explosives in a new table using Alchemy.
- I added another page of locale based reagents.
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2020-09-27 04:56:04 +0000 UTC
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There is going to be a handful of crafting polls coming, but after talking to some folks I wanted to get a sense of where people are and what they want.
I want to be perfectly clear that I'm not going to treat the results of this poll as necessarily binding, but I will let it influence how I present the items and what I focus on.
To further explain the options:
- Should present Ruled-As-Written items only: This means that if I let you craft alchemist fir...
2020-09-24 19:59:38 +0000 UTC
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It's really not quite ready, but I gave myself a hardline that I'd share this out today, as I was supposed to be sharing out progress every week this month on it. I've been working on this quite a bit behind the scenes and gathering feedback from some helpers, and I always thought it was one little tweak from ready, but I want to try to make that process a little more public (if belated from when I was supposed to).
This will still include Blacksmith and Enchanting, but for now we are ...
2020-09-22 06:28:03 +0000 UTC
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The Wizard school of our times, this comes from a patreon request for a disease focused Wizard. These Wizards delve the secrets of pathogens and diseases, unlocking their potential, and using magic and knowledge to quell the maledictions of their allies and bring terrible fates to their foes. As feared as any necromancer, these Wizards wield terrible secrets.
It comes with a few new diseases based in their spell list. Originally I planned to include a list of example of diseases, but af...
2020-09-16 21:43:39 +0000 UTC
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This Month
Starting this month, I want to bring a little more focus to my projects. I have, over time, acquired too many long term projects that simmer away with little obvious progress and lack of deadlines. As I turn more of my attention to working on things, I want to try to get some of these projects actually out and in the hands of the D&D playing wilds out there.
We saw a little of this recently with Occultist 1.0 and Psion 1.3 both finally getting out the door, but we...
2020-09-02 21:50:32 +0000 UTC
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So we already saw a Preview version, and this is pretty similar to that, but with some changes based on feedback and playtesting. It does have some new stuff in it, and some further tweaks and changes to clean up some issues.
Due to how reddit posting rules work, this won't be posted there till next week (as I'm posting the Occultist this week), so I'll be making some fine tuned changes over the next few days. 1.3.1 will probably mostly focus on cleaning up Wandering Mind and Elemental ...
2020-09-01 07:47:39 +0000 UTC
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This is it, the Occutlist 1.0; there's been too many changes to track all of them from the 0.9, but changes from the 1.0 forward will be tracked.
If you are playing the 0.9 version and want to continue to access it, please use this link: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-M-WtrKeZNFdEXq0MKXw/-MCpPfuHii7KzeDnBvvW
At a high level:
- Oracles have been tw...
2020-08-28 06:58:06 +0000 UTC
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A patreon requested that I go through the Arcane Archer and revise it to Superiority Dice like I did the Cavalier, and I thought that was a great idea, and something I was more or less planning to do eventually anyway.
While I don't think superiority dice are necessary for every Fighter (at this point anyway, I think that would have been a great initial design), I think they make an excellent resource system (and we'll probably see my Psychic Warrior veer more toward them with it's next...
2020-08-22 05:09:09 +0000 UTC
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The biggest of the changes are in the Expanded Options, and by biggest I mean it has two full new subclasses - Wandering Mind (Nomad) and Elemental Mind (Kineticists)
This update is not complete! There's obvious formatting issues, balance testing is still in progress, and there's a little more to come still. But since this is a big update, I wanted to get a preview version to give people a little time to digest it and offer some preliminary thoughts and feedback if the...
2020-08-13 06:35:42 +0000 UTC
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The Skulker lurks in the shadows and offers their power to those that pay the price, during them into dark agents capable of dealing a poisonous death from the shadows.
This is loosely based on the Skulker of Vhaeraun arechtype from older editions, combined stealth, poison, and a patron that'd rather not stand in the spot light... at least not yet.
Dealers of death and and denizens of darkness, this subclass gives you the kit most suited to skulking about in the dark a...
2020-08-02 07:19:31 +0000 UTC
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Assassin has always been a popular archetype with some major flaws. Chief among the flaws is that its main feature, Assassinate, relies on surprise - something that you will rarely in get in a party, meaning the Assassin tends to shine the most in solo play... something that doesn't come up that often.
I had a few things I wanted to do - I wanted to give them some new approaches to their assassination. Garrote represents one of those, and is an item I've wanted to stat out for a bit - i...
2020-08-01 03:52:43 +0000 UTC
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I apologize for not using the more convenient patron poll for this, but this is a big one. I won't spam you with these, and we'll go running proper patreon polls about "what to work on" soon, but I've never actually done a proper survey like this, and I would love to get the feedback in more details.
This shouldn't take more than 10 minutes or so and I really appreciate any feedback - feel free to share this to others - this is a general survey for anyone that has interest in my stuff, ...
2020-07-28 18:58:35 +0000 UTC
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We are pretty close now folks. Of course, 1.0 will not be the end of its development, but at least that'll open the floodgates. I often say that around the 1.3 is where a class is usually fairly solid, but I think at this point we have a clear structure for the Oracle, Shaman and Witch, and there's several playtesters playing each of those subclasses.
The Change Log is as follows:
Change Log 0.9
Oracle
- Clarified Prophecy
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2020-07-22 07:40:25 +0000 UTC
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I got my start in Homebrewing revising UA that wasn't being updated (the original UA Artificer) so this is sort of a return to my roots I suppose :)
This is tackling a request I've had going on for a bit from a patron of the noble court; they used these various discarded UA Sorcerers, but wanted to see a revised version they could use going forward. I know there's quite a few versions of these out there, so it hadn't been the top of my list to tackle, but I think there's a l...
2020-07-19 04:54:38 +0000 UTC
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I've been working on the spell list for Occultist. Some changes coming, some new spells. These spells will integrated into the Occutlist with the upcoming v0.9 update (as well as some other updates it'll get) and any new spells I add by then.
Developer Notes for the Spells:
- Alacrity. It's literally 1 turn haste. It doesn't require concentration and it's 2nd level, and a bonus action. I think it'll be pretty good.
- Animate Object. It's a 2nd level version of the 5th...
2020-07-15 01:53:15 +0000 UTC
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So we aren't to the release version yet here, but this is the first version to have a proper Oracle in it.
Oracle is in it's early days and may seem some changes, but I think we have the core idea in. It's not quite a Pathfinder Oracle, but it has some overlap with the conceptual ground, if skewed more toward prophecy and divination, it retains the very flexible nature. I wanted a model where it is easy to add more Mysteries and Revelations, and want to give the Oracle the chance to eng...
2020-07-10 22:43:39 +0000 UTC
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Hi Folks,
June has been a slow month for a release schedule around here; there's no getting around that. I've been working on a handful of stuff, with the Occultist at the top of the queue, and some of it's close to release, but ultimately we saw less content than I'd hope this month.
But I think I can promise some substantive change there for next month, as my situation will be changing; next week is my last week at my current day job. Without getting into the details, the landsc...
2020-06-30 15:56:11 +0000 UTC
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So I've decided that we are going to put the Friday streams on hold, but we'll keep doing the playtest streamed every other Friday. This is the sign up for this month.
If you want to join the fun, please sign up for the day you think you can make, I'll select a handful of people on Thursday and send you a confirmation by Thursday. If you want to see what they are a like, we've streamed two of them so you can take a gander at either the one on my or TAGs channel to get an idea what you'r...
2020-06-10 17:41:48 +0000 UTC
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The head liner change here is a new version of Overwhelming Mark, Overwhelming Mark has plagued the class a little bit from the unset of having a similar problem to stunning strike - while in terms of balance a feature that is somewhere between overpowered and useless might be just right, it was often frustrating to use and to fall victim to, as stun as a condition is very powerful.
Two changes have been introduced to address that:
Overwhelming Mark itself no longer s...
2020-06-02 01:08:14 +0000 UTC
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The Expanded Options for Psion has been updated; the psionic items we previously saw a preview of have been added to the Expanded Options, but some new stuff has been added as well!
- Psionic Items Added
- Projected Weaponry now bypasses the size limitation.
- Added talent Elemental Emotions
- Added talent Manifested Emotions
- Added talent Precise Power
- Added talent Unchecked Power
- Added talent Reflected Suffering
- Added talent ...
2020-06-01 06:08:28 +0000 UTC
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I haven't put a news update here in a bit, so I figured I'd post and give the general plan.
Immediately Upcoming:
- The Friday Arena Playtest starts in just an hour on Twitch! If you want to swing by and watch our brave volunteers face off, we have three Artificers backed up by a Cleric taking on the arena this time! Stream will start at 10pm GMT/6pm EDT/3pm PDT and run for about three hours! This time ...
2020-05-29 20:57:33 +0000 UTC
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One of my earlier subclasses was a Rogue that ended up being called the Purifier. I think ultimately it was in a pretty good spot, but after quite a lot of playtesting and feedback, some refresh was needed to some of it's features, and it's been tweaked a bit here with some updates.
I've also never loved the name (I think Inquisitor is the natural name but conflicts with Inquisitive too much), but have settled with Divine Agent this time around. There's an NPC that uses this archetype i...
2020-05-28 05:37:27 +0000 UTC
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Magic items for Psions and Psionics. Not an exhaustive list, but some basic functionality ones and a sprinkling of stranger things. Inspired on by a patreon request :)
These will eventually make their way into the Expanded Options for the Psion probably.
2020-05-19 03:20:40 +0000 UTC
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To be honest, there's still a lot I wanted to do with this before I posted it, but it's getting a little ridiculously delayed at this point and I want to get what's there out, so I've cleaned up what I could and posted it. I think there will be a 2.0.3a as I sort through my notes this week and realize the things I didn't get in/updated tweaked. Still a good bit in this change as the change log indicates...
The major additions are the new Thesis option Perfection of Technique (which we s...
2020-05-18 07:02:40 +0000 UTC
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An exciting update to Friday's stream, we'll be running a playtest stream! This will be consist of me and 2 volunteers taking on an Arena created by my good D&D friend, The Arena Guy (TAG).
What's an Arena? It's a game mode created by TAG that is essentially a combat challenge mode of D&D. It's great fun for many, and it's a great way to do some combat playtesting....
2020-05-13 02:53:59 +0000 UTC
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Based on a patreon request, a new race, the Hagkin. Often referred to as Hagspawn, that technically refers to the males of the species, so I wanted a word that'd capture the broader spectrum of possibility.
With 5 subraces and 2 feats, you can find something here for everyone.
As always, feel free to let me know your thoughts and feedback.
2020-05-03 21:30:32 +0000 UTC
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In a scant three hours I'll be going live on Twitch here:
https://www.twitch.tv/kibblestasty
I have no idea what I'll be working on, so let's fire it out!
Right now, I don't think there's too much "fun" stuff to work on in the Expanded Toolbox, it's mostly fiddle admin work, so let's find something that'll work better for the stream! :)
2020-04-28 19:05:54 +0000 UTC
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Predictably the Warlord on it's way to an Expanded Tactics document, and that's going to open with the dual pieces of Magic and Mystery (Magic and Psionics).
This is, obviously, the Psionics part of that.
For now, just sharing this early draft of it. This is something I've been promising for a long time. I find this a little bit to be.... sort of the peak of self-absorbed, since it only works for people that use both my Warlord and Psion... but at the end of the day I've decided t...
2020-04-25 04:42:10 +0000 UTC
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Just wanted to update a few things.
- The Expanded Toolbox was supposed to come this week, and that's still the plan, but I'm downcasting the forecast from a "probably" to a "maybe", and probably this weekend :)
Might be delayed to early next week to include the Runesmith (as per below).
