Lets all bear in mind that the Baldur's Gate novel is a watchword for terrible videogame novelisations. And then never speak of it again. (View Post)

To be fair, being a large tract of wilderness full of adventures for the specific party you happen to be running is what the Sword Coast setting is for. It's an intentionally vaguely defined stretch … (View Post)

Kai Leng Now, obviously I'm not talking about a specific tryhard space ninja, but about the trend in DMPC generation that he represents. Also visible in Aria T'Loak, or The Illusive Man. Avoid charac… (View Post)

The "canon party" wasn't important, they are all just early game characters who are statistically nonrubbish and are good aligned so they won't complain or leave most people's party. They e… (View Post)

The intuitive thing about the numbers isn't necessarily working with positive numbers, but that in newer editions bigger numbers are consistently better, whereas sometimes in older edtions smaller nu… (View Post)