Recent content by Cobalt Meridian

I think the solution that most law enforcement would be to throw them into prison. If the crimes continue then they were framed and the law enforcement body can seek the real criminal. If they stop then "justice" has been served (even if they're not sure that they have the right person, if...

I think it's because, in many medieval societies, the females had no choice over who they married - that decision was made by the most senior male in the family. If that was the case here, the Baron could decide to marry off his half-sister for political or financial benefit. Acknowledging a...

I don't think it would make any difference to the common people. They might actually see it as a positive thing. To the landed gentry they wouldn't think the situation to be particularly unusual - they probably all have illegitimate children by various servants and local tavern wenches, meaning...

This is my experience as a GM as well: 5e's bounded accuracy makes a character that their player rolled an 18 for their primary ability score, which they were able to bump to 20 and then take feats asap, vs a character with a 13 in their primary stat who needs to spend a couple of ASI's to...

Purely by coincidence, my next campaign has 9 "core" races: Humans (people people) Gnomes (fey people) Warforged (mechanical people) Aarokocra (bird people) Dragonborn (dragon people) Minotaurs (cow people) Tabaxi (cat people) Tortle (turtle people) Yuan-ti (snake people) Each "people"...

Galandris, as well as having "hero" as your community title, this thread and all of your work makes you officially my hero :)

Typically, I allow my players to pick from a choice of 6 races (Human, Elf, Dwarf, Gnome, Tiefling and Goliath). This list was chosen with the player input so I know that there was demand for these. There's also about half a dozen non-PC races that they might interact with (Orc, Goblin, Gnoll...

The only vaguely interesting lore I have is that Tieflings were , until relatively recently Humans. They were afflicted by a curse from Orcus (so a demonic origin, not a devilish one). Of course, curses can be broken and my players may have just found out how to do this...

Thanks for the replies. Just to confirm, I have no problem with the player and I hope that it doesn't sound that I do - he's a friend and a good roleplayer - he just wants more direction and I was out of ideas. Well I definitely have some ideas now ;) and for that I appreciate the time that...

Thanks for all the replies so far - they have been very useful and much appreciated! Just to clarify, yes I have spoken with the player who does accept that it's very much a long term aim. They're more frustrated that a clear path hasn't presented itself yet, and that's mainly because I didn't...

Hi! Sorry about the wall of text but I could really do with advice from more experienced GMs on how to resolve a campaign plot issue. By way of background: My campaigns have a “theme” but I also like to incorporate player’s ideas for plotlines that they would like to follow. This tends to work...

I had a very odd session. My players are trying to retrieve a stolen brooch and were directed to a local fence. He pointed them to a Gnome Thief who was known to partake in a little bit of light corpse-robbing. The group headed over to the cemetery, located the thief who was in the process of...

For various irl reasons my group is very amicably splitting into two and last night we ran through the event that caused that. The hexblade warlock, whose cult has secretly (from the other characters - they players knew) been working on opening a portal to the Shadowfell, had to admit what he...

I usually ask that my players supply either a short backstory (no more than 200 words) or complete a short character quiz that answers some key details (where do they come from, why are they their primary class, are they a leader or a follower, etc.). This is to be supplied by the end of the...

6. My current game has six available PC races (at present), mostly from the PHB. As the group travel the world and meet newer races then those will also become available as PC options but I doubt there'll end up being more than a dozen or so available races in total.