Recent content by Arlough

I guess it really depends on what your players find "fun". This is where I find the 8 kinds of fun useful. It lets me target different kinds of gameplay for different players, and allows me to direct players with similar profiles to form gaming groups (trust me, you don't want to bore most your...

I recently switched my group over from D&D to Fate, specifically using the Fate Freeport Companion (Fate in D&D clothing) rules to ease the transition. We were playing an Eberron game, and wanted to just convert over the characters, but there is no artificer nor anything particularly like an...

Generally, anymore, this word lands into 'contextless offender' category. It is filled with words that people have chosen to take offense at with no understanding of the word, and no consideration of context. To give another example, the word "nerd" when used to describe one's self is probably...

Eberron should be complex Consider this stolen. I was drawn to Eberron because it was more complex (and less Color Coded for Your Convenience) than the rest of D&D. Given the nature of Eberron Dragons, the dragon attack made no sense to me either, and my players are going to run into it in a...

FYI, you want Dungeon 167 from June 2009. I was trying to remember this adventure. I am starting with a new group soon, but I just don't have time to sandbox a world, so I decided this time I was going to go with ready made adventures. I like the alignment ambiguity of Eberron, but I couldn't...

I was typing out "Please believe me when I tell you that I am not saying this in any disparaging way." when I realized that this phrasing may seem to be mocking you. So instead I will say, please take this as a commentary on my observation, and not a judgement upon you. Given you sig... I...

Mind you, I like non-killing plot and character advancement. When I put a room full of goblins in the path of my group, they get XP for achieving the goal (getting past the goblins, usually). It doesn't matter if they sneak, negotiate, or kill, so long as they have overcome the obstacle. But...

I picked other because I prefer my books in electronic format, which my FLGS isn't equipped to supply. But many books are not available in digital, and in those cases I will give my FLGS the business [or would until they upped their prices, kicked out non-Magic: the Gathering players, and added...

I find the guy:female (47:5) both amusing, and sadly surprising (Sad in that I was surprised to find almost 10% of the respondents are female. I have a really hard time recruiting women into my campaigns as active participants.) Anyway, for me I would have rate my character gender as 94% same...

First off, I have been affectionately referring to any adventuring group we have as MurderHobos for a little over a decade, and I would have been even longer had I thought of it prior to that. Secondly, ever since I found D&D [2nd edition and on] that has been the incentivized way of operating...

I actually prefer "Transient Genocidal Superhuman Kleptomaniacs" In fact, I think that is what I will call game night from now on. TGSK Anyway, I was looking for artwork of adventurers looting corpses, and I put in the phrase Murder-Hobos, and I found a forum [The RPG Site] from back in 2011...

Another one that I have come to love is roll20.net. It works well as a replacement for maptool (VTT), Skype/Hangout etc. (video chat), softrope (ambient sounds & effects), and roller. I use it in conjunction with Obsidian Portal to keep a record of the game so far. Though, I usually out-source...

Don't make it "Attack +/-X", make it something like "Target ally makes the following attack: +[lazy based number] vs. [appropriate defense]; Hit: [lazy based damage die and/or effect]" Basically, treat it kinda like a alchemical attack where the leader determines all the stats, and make it a bit...

I think that is more of a 5e wish list than D&D trope peeves. :) Sent from my Nexus S using Tapatalk 2

Actually, this is a pretty constrained list so far. Much more reasonable than I was expecting. As for my peeves, I'd have to agree with the arguments against the D20 and genetic alignment. I don't know it it's a meme, but I am also sick of splatbooks with MOAR POWWRZ instead of more diversity...