A little history of the doom pool. It’s based on the trouble pool we used in Smallville and named “doom” because of Doctor Doom when we used it in Marvel Heroic. Marvel Saga had a doom “suit” in its deck of cards so that was a nod to that. This idea of a pool of dice the GM gets to spend that grows over time as a result of players rolling badly but which also serves as the opposition dice pool is something I’ve always loved. It’s ambient tension and pacing.

Tanis Half-Elven, ready to start the Classic modules in 5e: NG male half-elf fighter (battle master) 5. This is an easy one. Alert feat, archery fighting style, commander’s strike, rally, precision strike. Background? I’d go with Caravan Specialist (variant of Outlander). I’d make them all 5th level to start with. You _could_ start the classic War of the Lance story with 1st level characters, or even 3rd level, but I like 5th. Original AD&D modules had Raistlin at 3rd, Tanis 5th, Caramon at 6th! All over the place.

Dudes, 2 years ago: you shouldn’t be so mean to Zak S, he makes great books, also he can’t be an abuser because look how his game group is ladies and porn stars
Dudes, now: you shouldn’t have been so mean to Zak S, your accusations distracted from the real victims I swear there are still people who think I’m a bad progressive because I challenged Zak on his shitty behavior and confrontational asshole stalker activity while they were defending him. Even now, after all that’s going on, somehow that’s the problem here.