Recent content by el-remmen

I feel like Instagram ads are trolling me.

The way I run it is Perception when only using sight (or perhaps hearing and smell as well) but investigation when touching, probing in addition to sight. With different traps having different DCs based on the approach to finding it. The again, I ask players to describe how they are looking and...

With nothing but anecdotal data to go from based on the community of mini painters and terrain makers I am a part of on Instagram, minis and terrain seem to be doing fine though ironically probably some drop off post pandemic.

Does DnDBeyond have a functIon that chooses appropriate spells for you? Because that’s the part that based on the OP or my own experience cannot be done in five minutes unless you are going totally random or have an eidetic memory.

The lack of bases for medium creatures doesn’t bother me personally because I have so many. But when it comes to small, large, or huge bases I am reminded of how mercenary it is to not include them.

Do my "Orc-Born" count as "re-loring?" This lineage replaces “Half-Orc” in the 5E Player’s Handbook. No one has seen an actual orc in millennia, and according to legend they were exterminated in wars against the so-called “Free Peoples.” According to these legends, orcs were a savage and evil...

Goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears are three sexes of the same species. Traditionally, all goblins are male, all hobgoblins are female, and bugbears are non-binary but in a traditional set-up are nursemaids and guardians (since hobgoblins don’t nurse their children). Edit: I said “traditionally”...

while my own personal experience does not invalidate the reasonable question of why minis themed for a book or adventure are not timed to release close to one another, I will say that I don’t think I have actually used an adventure book within 6 months of getting it.

Page 121 is mostly about AD&D 1E.

How many posts/pages on a thread is too many for you to bother participating even if you otherwise would be interested in the topic?

Define "finish." Like the adventures in GoS and Yawning Portal are not connected - does "finish" mean having to play them all? Because, if so, the answer is none.

I was cleaning and re-arranging things in the house today and found a box with a few more copies of HOW I RUN IT #5: STAT DRAFTS & Other Character Creation Options (after thinking I had sold out of them long ago). Below are some sample pix of it (click on thumbnail). Since I'd rather they be in...