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July 27, 2023

How I gained the power of the gods by talking to a magical cat: My hero familiar; Lesser Fey Contracts

A while ago, Form of Dread made an article on fey contracts. While the article does an alright job and looking at the contract options, I think there’s been a very sore miscalculation on the power some of these provide to early level PC’s. These powers include: an effective 9 stack death ward, a 50ft…
April 12, 2023

Prismatic Lasagna Death Rainbow: a fabritech mini article

This has been a small piece of fabri-tech that’s been on my radar for a while but I haven’t felt like full committing to another large article on fabricate lately. This isn’t technically force-shaping, but it’s closely related. I present prismatic wall shaping. Prismatic Wall “A shimmering, multicolored plane of light forms a vertical opaque…
March 27, 2023

Ex-Nihilo ut Omnia: Null-Shaping

I’ve been putting this article off for a while, because, to some degree, people already know what i’m talking about. Null-shaping is using the fact that certain objects and statblocks are marked with a “-” as their value, or their CR. This often but not all of the time also works with things marked as…
March 26, 2023

Whisper of the Wyrm: Death 9000: Ascendant Antimatter Rifle Requiem

Antimatter rifle is a powerful ranged weapon listed in the DMG. It holds 2 shots before needing to be reloaded, and deals 6d8 necrotic damage > Weapon, range Firearm, futuristic, martial weapon 6d8 necrotic, 2 handed, reload [2 shots] We remember from death zero we can re-size magical weapons, and our best contender for a…
March 20, 2023

Shaping up: A guide to Fabricate

Fabricate has been talked about quite a lot before this article. From creating tools for a whole village to making your own money printer, Fabricate has been a staple in optimization for a while. However, There’s more we can do with this spell than most realize. Reading the spell Choose raw materials that you can…
March 11, 2023

The Future of the Past: Time Travel in 5e

“Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also” -Margret Atwood Time Travel The gimmick today is rather straight forward; time travel is very possible within the confines of 5e, at least under some readings. lets read the teleport spell “This…
January 23, 2023

Pathfinder 1e: The Desperate Siege God Exit

I, like many others, got curious to pathfinder after the new OGL fiasco. I was told pathfinder was better balanced with less cheese. Today, I want to show that pathfinder is almost as breakable as 5e. Desperate Weapon Desperate Weapon is described as follows: You create a one-handed object that you might expect to see…
December 26, 2022

Nightmares Before Christmas: Blood Science

I’m back and ready to ruin 5e even more Big shout out to ❀✿ A Colorful Death ✿❀#2508 on discord, who pointed the rules for player lycanthropy and vampirism out to me. do you need to be stronger, faster, tougher, and generally better than you were before? Do you like immunity to non-magical weapons? Well,…
November 23, 2022

The Unique: A Stance Like no other [Limitless Ego 2]

“I am owner of my might, and I am so when I know myself as unique.” The Unique What is the unique? The unique is us, realizing our potential as independent agents. also, it’s a level 2400 monster of a build that can barely even be called a build, because it has levels in every…
November 1, 2022

Limitless Ego / The road to level 2400

Pacts with Arch-Fiends This article exists as a part 2 to a Form of Dread Article, found here https://formofdread.wordpress.com/2022/11/02/devil-pacts-how-to-dip-warlock-on-a-warlock/ Essentially, this forces us to take a level into fiend warlock, detailed explanation from the person who found this above. This also includes info on how we can get access to magic items, which is mentioned…

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