Recent content by Lazybones

Another shout out for Ghosts of Saltmarsh; it was very easy for me to insert several of the provided scenarios into an existing island-themed campaign.

I own four of the 5e adventure books in hardcover, but some time back when there was a discounted adventure bundle on Fantasy Grounds I picked up all of the WotC releases through Wild Beyond the Witchlight. I mostly use them to grab content to insert into my homebrew campaigns (for example, for...

I haven't played all of them, but it hasn't been my experience that they're super easy, at least at the lower levels. Someone already mentioned the initial goblin encounter in Lost Mines, and Cragmaw is pretty lethal as well, with a boss that can easily one-shot any first level character (and...

This looks like it could be very cool for published scenarios where everything is already set up and you can just log in and play. As others have noted, the customization tools will be the big question for DMs like me that like to homebrew. I've gotten to the point in Fantasy Grounds where I...

This just came up in my last session, where the party encountered an intelligent monster that didn't speak Common. It started as a potential combat encounter, but when the group was able to find a common language they were able to avoid conflict. It's fairly easy for me to adjudicate this since...

As someone noted already in the thread, the Basic module B4: The Lost City is an excellent template for this. It has factions, potentially friendly NPCs, a possible base of operations, and plenty of opportunities for character development considering the fact that the party just essentially...

As someone who is fairly well-invested in Fantasy Grounds (I DM two weekly 5e campaigns), I am open to the idea of a new VTT with added functionality. But I run almost exclusively homebrew, and I need a system that is friendly to the builder. With FG, there was a learning curve, but now I am...

Google Hangouts and Zoom seem to be popular options for video chat.

I have published the first part of Forgotten Lore as an ebook at Smashwords. It's cleaned up, edited, and trimmed down a bit (I removed the D&D-specific elements to avoid any copyright issues with WotC/Hasbro). The book is available in most of the major ebook formats, including mobi/Kindle...

Glad you enjoyed it! If you liked those two, you may also enjoy my Rappan Athuk story, "The Doomed Bastards," which is still hanging around the front page of this subforum...

Glad you enjoyed it. It's a lot quieter here now than back when I was posting my earlier stories, but I enjoy getting the feedback of regular readers. These stories have always been a fun way of familiarizing myself with new editions of D&D.

Well, there it is. Another story finished. As always, it ended up longer and more complicated than I planned when I started (over 400,000 words altogether!). Obviously, I could have kept it going past this final cliffhanger, but I’ve been writing this story for almost two years and this felt...

Chapter 317 A sharp wind blew over the ledge where Bredan sat, his back to the reassuring bulk of the stone wall that rose up high above him. The wind was bitingly cold, but he barely felt it. His gaze traveled over the city that stretched out below him. Severon hadn’t changed in his...

That would actually have been a cool twist! Wish I'd thought of it! :) * * * Chapter 316 Bredan’s awareness returned within a sea of blackness. He had no sense of his body, or anything else; he was just a disembodied presence within the black. He felt a momentary surge of panic, but...

Chapter 315 Glori’s struggles to breathe eased as she began to lose consciousness. Desperate, Quellan channeled a trickle of divine power into her—all he could do, with his higher-order magic fully depleted. The spare the dying cantrip worked, stabilizing her, and her breathing eased as he...