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Persuasion Check: Unearthed Arcana – Sidekicks
It’s December, and our friends at Wizards of the Coast have gifted us another Unearthed Arcana! This time they’ve given our characters a gift as well, as Sidekicks are December’s topic!
What are sidekicks? Well, have you ever wanted a dog for your character but didn’t play a character with that feature? Or maybe your party made friends with an upstart adventurer who wants to come along and learn the ropes! Whatever the case, Sidekicks allow you to bring along, and level up, companions in one of three Sidekick Classes! These are actually lifted from the 3.5 ‘Generic Classes’, which use the same names of Warrior, Expert, and Spellcaster.
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A Handful of Magic Items 11
It’s December, so we bring gifts of more magic items! We’ve got rings that combine you and a friend, a necklace that gives you the power of dragon, and a potion for desperate times!
Pair of Ettin Rings (requires attunement)
A Pair of Ettin Rings has two distinct rings- a Ring of Might and a Ring of Mind. Each ring must be attuned to a different humanoid in order to function. Once per day, if both wearers of the rings are within 10 feet of each other they can choose to activate their rings as an Action. If they do so, the magic of the ring fuses them into a Ettin, taking on the features of the two humanoids.
The two wearers become a single Large, two-headed creature, centered where the wearer of the Ring of Might stood. This creature has the following features:
-Combined maximum and current health of the two wearers
-Strength, Constitution, and Dexterity scores of the wearer of the Ring of Might, as well as related proficiency bonuses for saving throws and skills using the wearers proficiency bonus.
-Armor class and Initiative of the wearer of the Ring of Might
-Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores of the wearer of the Ring of Mind, as well as related proficiency bonuses for saving throws and skills using the wearers proficiency bonus.
-Worn magic items are melded into the creature and only affect the humanoid who was wearing them before the rings were activated.
3 Reasons Why We Love Artifact, the DotA-based Online Card Game Designed by Valve and Richard Garfield; a Ready Review.
On November 28, 2018, Artifact, the hotly-anticipated electronic trading card game and its first set, A Call to Arms, were released. This love child between DotA and Magic: the Gathering is what we have all been waiting for.
25 Volcanic City Adventure Seeds
We’re here with even more Adventure Seeds for you! We continue with our theme of fantastical cities as we explore a city nestled inside a volcano! Is it me, or is it hot in here?
Per usual, had a lot of fun with this list, even if I was a bit slow to come up with some of the basic ideas. But soon they erupted and started flowing like lava down the side of a volcano! Of course, there’s a fire/lava/heat theme with the vast majority of these, but considering the limits of living in a volcano I hope you enjoy them all the same!
There were a few assumptions with this list per usual that could be altered as you see fit:
- The city is inside the volcano,
- The city is protected by some form of magic from the extreme heat- be it magic cast over the city, rings that everyone wears, a magic potion they take daily, etc,
- The city is held suspended by chains or other means over the lava, meaning falling over and in is entirely possible,
- and there only two entrances into the city at the top of the volcano and a single entrance in the side that is primarily used.
[Old School Brawl] Rubinia Soulsinger: brewing a Creature Theft/Sacrifice Combo Deck
Rubinia Soulsinger, a Green/White/Blue (“Bant”) legendary creature from Legends, has over four hundred decks on EDHREC. She was even reprinted in Commander Anthology. With that many people using Rubinia in regular EDH, she is likely a strong candidate for a commander in Old School Brawl, as well. So let’s take a look at the interactions, errata, and card selection that will be sure to make you the most hated person at the table!
Persuasion Check: Unearthed Arcana – Of Ships and the Sea
New Unearthed Arcana, ahoy! This month we get some sweet rules for ships and managing them!
We get some new rules on improved stat blocks, the components that make them up, the officers and crew that run the ship, hazards and mutiny, and downtime management. These rules work together to put together an improved seafaring experience and I’m excited to dig into them! There’s not a lot of analysis going on this time, so I give each part a quick rundown and my thoughts on the rules.
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[Old School 93/94]: Why Hammerheim is better than Mountain in almost every single way (You heard me!)
Mountain is trash. Mountain is a bad card. Hammerheim is a superior magical card. Mountain, for the following reasons, does not often belong in your 93/94 deck:
(Disclaimer: this article is intended to be as satirical as it is educational.)
25 Floating City Adventure Seeds
What time is it? Adventure Seeds time! We’re high in the sky with a Floating City this time around, so come along and enjoy the ride!
I had a ton of fun writing these, and this may have been one of the easiest lists to write. The possibilities of a city that floats through the air are near limitless and I hope I put that to good use! From getting turned upside down, to flying monsters, and economic issues that can occur high up, there should be something for everyone!
The only real assumptions are that it’s a city (or large town), it’s built upon a floating mass of stone, dirt, and other earthy materials, and that it, be it slow or fast, floats through the sky and is not completely stationary.
[Premodern] Colorless: Impactful Artifacts & Luxurious Lands
Although the cards themselves are not very colorful, our final installment highlighting some of the best Premodern cards ever printed is perhaps the most exciting of them all! If you play or are interested in playing Premodern, you likely either played between ’95-’03 and strive to relive your favorite era of Magic or you are entirely new to the format and may not even know what some of these cards even do. Regardless, let’s take one final look at the cards of Magic: the Gathering’s Golden Age:
Ready Review – GWENT: The Witcher Card Game
October 23rd is the full release of GWENT: GWENT Homecoming. If you are interested in watching some GWENT gameplay, We’ve been streaming it over on our Twitch. To celebrate Homecoming, here’s five reasons who you should play GWENT!
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