Recent content by Jolly Ruby

The map don't have layers, but it's presented as three versions: Map with labels (names for places, regions, geographic formations, etc) and markers (marking towns, cities, dungeons, sites of interest, roads, trails, etc). Map with markers, but no labels. Fully unlabeled and unmarked map...

I bought it and it's amazing! It's one of the most detailed maps of Faerun and it cuts almost exactly where the 1e and 2e maps used to cut, which was one of my criticisms of the previous 5e map. The version without legends that come in the pack is a blessing since I can pinpoint only the places...

Quests From the Infinite Staircase is my favourite WotC adventure book in the last few years, so I hope it's a good sign!

Planescape: Dead Gods. I would love to see Sigil and the planes on the screen.

Usually if I'm playing 5e I like XP for combats and overcoming challenges. Treasures are aalready a reward, no need to double down on it (unless I'm playing old-school), and social encounters only if they're some kind of challenge. But I like to play with what gives XP too, to tune the tone of...

If you distill the math behind the adventuring days XP, the treasure hoards and the DMG advice you can find these numbers: Levels 1 and 2: 1 session each. Level 3: 2 sessions. Level 4 to 10: 3 sessions each. Level 11 to 20: 2 sessions each. From the 2014 DMG: Also from the 2014 DMG, about...

Dungeons? Very often. Not every session, but at least one every level. Usually 5 to 20 rooms, but sometimes more if the players are really in the mood for multilevel dungeons. Dragons? Not that often. At least one per campaign, and usually more than one, but I like them to feel like mythical...

I consider 2e to 3e and '14 to '25 to be both Vecna's attempts to rewrite History (Die Vecna Die! and Eve of Ruin). Both attempts affected the whole multiverse, but since they happened outside the material plane and they failed the people on the Realms don't remember anything happening.

BG3 SPOILERS AHEAD So and could paid for a ressurection apparently. It makes sense, but I think it would be more interesting if they changed at least , he isn't interesting at all.

Anyone who got the book can check who are the Baldur's Gate Dukes?

I wish they did the MtG modules using the traditional MtG cosmology (the planes, blind eternities, etc) instead of inserting it in the D&D cosmology.

How I currently run it: Neither the drows nor the orcs are inherently evil, but there are relevant evil drow and orc groups. The main contact the surface people have with the drow is by Mezoberranzan, an imperialist theocracy that raids the surface for slaves. While the average drow in...

1. Why? Familiarity, mostly. After all these years running a game set in the Forgotten Realms is almost second nature. Second, I made the setting mine after all these years. It's still very much recognizable and easily approachable by a player who knows the realms from playing the games or...

Watched Mononoke Hime again today (in IMAX!) and revived an old idea I've read somewhere of using the premise of the movie and apply it to Keep on the Borderlands: the Keep playing a similar role as Iron Town, and the Caves and its inhabitants as the woods and the beasts/spirits/kami. Using a...

It was always what I felt was lacking in OSE: a good introductory material and begginer friendly sections like examples of play. I hope it covers the same bases the old red box covered!