Recent content by Nine Hands

I use ChatGPT and Bing Creator a bunch in my campaigns, both for D&D and other game systems. I like to feed ChatGPT my game summaries and query it for additional plot points that I may have not thought of. It's not going to run my game for me, but it gives me a different point of view on new...

Or Demiplane :)

It's one of the reasons when I built my mecha game, it is designed to play on a single Chessex Mondo-Mat. The longest ranged weapons are around 120 hexes. Medium range are around 60 (half the length), short range is 25 (quarter length) and close in weapons are 12 hexes or so (about 1/8th the...

I use these in my mecha game, we call them ammo dice. Depending on how much ammo you fire, you discard rolls of 1, 2, or 3. Once you are out of ammo, that weapon can't be used anymore. Time to switch to another weapon.

I ported all of the Journey activities into my D&D game, I added Fatigue and Strife instead of just exhaustion, World Actions, Prestige Rating, and a number of the Rare Spells.

I think it is such a nit-pick to slow down Small creatures by 5 feet and I am happy that Sunlight Sensitivity is gone, it just sucked to remember.

Even though this is a necrothread, I will mention that the character builder/management is top notch and being able to create monsters and pull them right into the encounter tool is perfect. Homebrewing spells and magic items is excellent as well. The Beyond 20 Chrome Extension allows you to...

I think the main thing is that money has not changed hands yet. I would not run a kickstarter where my customer gets a reward before I've been paid, since you can cancel at any time before the due date. Also, Level Up seems to be releasing some pretty detailed previews (the Adept is fully...

My creator keeps scrying me.

I played in a Robotech game that was run using a home-brewed version of Mekton and the GM was known for running campaigns into the ground. I made up a simple techie character and the campaign was awesome. Numerous campaigns and years later that home-brewed game system is still being used...

I was thinking about what makes 5E "feel" like old AD&D games. Now, I have two opinions here, an easy path and a hard path. The easy path, use an old adventure and just use the monsters in the module but use their 5E stats. Some adventures will be extremely deadly due to the differences...

I've been recording my game sessions with an ipad placed near the middle of the table. It may not work well for games which require a battlemap but the microphones pick up everyone's voice pretty clearly. Then before the next game session, I listen to the recording and jot notes down as I go...

I was going to be snarky and say that WotC already has a D&D show, its called Critical Role :)

Beyond 20 is so good that I started using Roll 20 in person, since I already have a TV on top of my gaming table. I don't have the players connect, they just tell me where they want to move the characters too. I'm going to get another mouse to allow them to manage the map themselves.

We use UP/DOWN initiative. Basically the monster's have a default initiative score, usually based on their average "passive" initiative. Players roll each round, those that roll higher than the monsters go before the monsters (in any order), those that roll the same or lower, go after. Roll...