Author: Randal Meyer
Hybrid Class Speculation in 2e/Playtest
We now know: Core classes plus alchemist Archetypes are core Common mechanics/terms across classes Class feats 3 actions per round (+1 reaction) Spells have verbal actions Spells have somatic actions 10 spell levels Let’s look at the Magus…
Read More »Iaijutsu Master (Samurai)
While trying to decide what to write up this week, I realized how heavily my content has been leaning towards the arcane, so I wanted to look at something more martial. Looking through my house rules and characters…
Read More »Spellcasting Teamwork Feats
I love casters. Sure, my first character was a fighter. But once I learned the rules of the game, my next character was an fighter/mage (elven bladesinger to be exact). I was hooked on magic. 9 out of…
Read More »Creature Template: Imaginary Friend
Of all the content I wanted to write for Wayfinder #18, I was only able to prepare one piece in time. I now have an entire fishing village and the surrounding area floating around in my head. One…
Read More »Random Spellbook Generation
Years ago, while discussing the annoyance of creating random spellbooks for enemy wizards, my friends and I pondered a way to resolve it. When I started running Rise of the Runelords, I realized how truly annoying this task…
Read More »Theme Parks in Space!
What if you took a look at some popular theme parks around the world today, and then put them in space. And then you tried to look deeper at the park, to see what is really going on…
Read More »Boiling Spit Take
During an online conversation earlier this week, I was suddenly laughing about how funny it would be for somebody to cast a spell on a cup as somebody is about to take a drink, causing them to spit…
Read More »Random Weather Generation
Not long after joining the Know Direction Discord, I had a conversation about random weather generation with Luis Loza. I quickly built a prototype random generator using Paizo’s weather tables, and we were happy! Ultimate Wilderness was releasing…
Read More »The Half-Life of Dice
While rearranging my desk, for better access to both work things and my gaming books (I work at home), I decided to finally take my bin of dice and put them in the divided container that I bought…
Read More »Knowledge (Religion) and Linguistics
Long before Pathfinder Unchained brought us cool new ways to use skills (looking at you background skills, skill unlocks, and Lore), I made house rules for some skills that I thought deserved more attention. Specifically, I felt that…
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