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Jan 4, 2022 12 tweets 5 min read Read on X
OK, here we go, #Giantlands Book Three: "5th Age Index"

Part One (Spirits Guide) here:


Part Two (Keepers Guide) here:
If you're trying to channel a Volo-like narrator, it's not working.
I'm really hoping there's a pronunciation guide here... Almost every monster is named like this.
So, first off, in this book this is the only place its actually called Armor Class, and it is specifically defined as their ability to resist damage. So it's not DEX-based like traditional D&D; it's actual armor.
As far as line art goes, it's not bad.

"Not being of flesh, are immune to melee attacks" defies logic... This is the first monster, so this is going to be a rocky ride.
None of the monsters have a whole lot of lore, which makes using them rather difficult. I suppose you can fit them in however you want.

And "big honkin' paragraph" is a terrible style to present this.
Almost every monster so far has "kill anything that moves" as their attitude.
So they stat up a god... Which, if you recall the rules posts I did, always hits anything it attacks ("To Hit" 100%) and absorbs all damage ("Armor" 100%).

Honestly, you don't need to make a stat block out of everything... especially a god (looking at you, Deities & Demigods).
The goodest boi!
Come on guys, did you really have to give the alien abomination boobs?
OK, this is actually kind of amusing.
OK, that's pretty much it. Not much to the 5th Age Index, mostly art and monsters whose names I can't pronounce.

Thank you all for following along!

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If you have been wondering what happened to Dave Johnson - author of NuTSR's "Star Frontiers New Genesis", documented racist, and all around nice guy - boy do we have some news for you.
Earlier today, the DHSM posted this on Facebook, along with an Amazon link, for a book called "The Musings of Lord George the Younger, B. S. of D.".

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First off, the product is only available as physical copies purchased through Amazon. I will be providing scanned snippets of the hardcopy where applicable.
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OK, here we go boys and girls. This is going to take a while because it's a lot so strap in.

If you want to donate to my sanity, I have a KoFi: ko-fi.com/brainclouds

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My PO Box is public record, easily found online. It's my corporate address for Darklight.
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No return address. Postage mark is from NC. To protect the source, not posting a picture of the postmark.
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Package had no return address, had a North Carolina postmark, and... well... this was inside. ImageImageImage
Just to prove this isn't Photoshop...

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I feel like I'm handling plutonium.
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I'm having a harder time with "Heart of Fire" than I expected. The straight conversion from 4E to 5E is leading to a lot of encounters with a lot of hostiles (I've introduced minions to mitigate this somewhat). I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
In typical 4E fashion, every room was an "encounter", but it was reasonably balanced in 4E because math.

In 5E, this seems excessive... borderline lethal... because of resources. Image
The only two solutions I can think of:

1) Make every encounter "easy" or "trivial".
2) Radically change the adventure's design of several rooms.

Option 2 is something I was not intending on doing because it's way more work.
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So, about the channel that this video was posted in.
It has a few Mr Beast videos, including the one where they use his "tank" as an Uber and... oh dear...

Remember that "employees fighting in grits" video? Well it's not here, but he FILMED THE BEFORE AND AFTER PARTY, where one girl hoses down the other.
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