Recent content by Mannahnin

TBF if you're going to have a long ongoing campaign you're still going to have to win the large majority of fights you get into. The percentage gets cut down a bit by morale checks, rules which actually support fleeing as a viable option, and players being encouraged to negotiate or avoid...

You can't win or lose at life, either, but people still talk about life having winners and losers, and we all know what they mean. Success or failure still feel like winning or losing, even in an open-ended scenario with no final predefined victory condition. RPG campaigns can have an intended...

This comes close to my feelings. Winning and losing in an RPG are mostly down to the mission at hand, but success or failure are usually more applicable terms. It's when character death occurs that it tends to feel more like actually losing the game. I've known a lot of players who have hopes...

Black Pudding AC 9, HP 30, ATK 3 tentacle +4 (2d6), MV near (climb), S +2, D -1, C +3, I -4, W -3, Ch -4, AL N, LV 6 Impervious. Only damaged by fire and by magic spells; half damage from spells. Corrosive. Wood or metal that touches the ooze dissolves on a d6 roll of 1-3. Brain Flayer AC 12...

Amazing. Treat, threat....

Great monster list! Not Inflammable? :) I came up with stats for Nautiloid Berserkers, a Black Pudding, and Brain Flayers for my run of Wavestone Monolith and was thinking of copying those over to this thread, but I presume the full Shadowdark rules probably include stats for the latter two...

Interesting. By "limited to 1st and 2nd level spells" you mean praying for recovery, right? They can still cast higher level spells as normal, they just can't get them back if their deity doesn't live there or in an adjacent plane (Prime Material, an Inner Plane, or a Demi Plane). Of course...

I always read it as an animal companion, and it looked familiar though I couldn't name it immediately. Thanks for placing it as a Loris. :)

I started this a while ago but haven't finished. What I read so far is very cool. :)

Surprise. People who misread someone else's assertion will sometimes continue to misread it even after being corrected, as a way to twist the meaning of what was expressed, cling to being right and win the discussion. Then claim the other people "proved my point" after they moved the goalposts...

It appears that I had my copy show up late yesterday- I just noticed the box on the porch this morning on my way to work and grabbed it, but haven't opened it to verify. Excited to confirm tonight!

Did circuits of dumbbell bench, dumbbell inclined curls, and dumbbell behind the head skull crushers on Saturday, followed by three sets of leg press +calf raises. Good session which had me staggering after the leg work, which is always satisfying. Not much DOMS yet, so I'm itching a bit to...

I'm not sure the divide is so clear, for me. I might opine that they're more akin than split. Spelljammer draws a bit on 50s-70s sci-fantasy, but to me it feels like one of the first products which really started to fall into the pattern of kind of fill in the blank design and D&D referencing...

I may have overstated his level of involvement, possibly due to half remembering one of his own (likely exaggerated) claims, but yeah. That's one of Dinehart's prior ventures. He was a salaried employee at Evermore and his LinkedIn lists his position there as "Director of Gaming". For a...

I agree that "fill in the blank spots" design is often lame and thoughtless. And can negatively impact the game even beyond being boring. For example I think it was a contributory factor to why Clerics got famously OP in 3.x, where we saw them suddenly get all sorts of new offensive spells and...