Recent content by Savage Wombat

I'm gonna go the other way, and say that the sword's power sure sounds like Protection from Evil to me. I think it should work.

Why should Ravenloft be just? Fitting punishment to crime is artistic flair, not the end goal of the domain.

Years ago I had a GM who would tend to do that - he'd just roll damage and tell you what your character got hit by. Considering this was Champions, and there were rules for reacting to attacks (dive for cover, abort to dodge) I felt this was frustrating.

Maybe it looks better from a different angle. But I'm not betting on it.

I had a campaign where the PCs were trapped in the Aztec underworld, and I wanted them to have a guide. Because of some myth I read, I gave them a small black dog with a nametag that said "Virgil". All Virgil ever did was run around fights doing Aid Another actions, but the players loved having...

Reef Dwarves. They discovered that there were jewels in the ocean, so they went after them. Problem - dwarves are terrible swimmers. But they can hold their breath a long time. So they walk out to the oyster beds and back.

I don't mind CR being inexact. I mind published monsters having the wrong CR by their own rules.

Oh, aargh, I'd managed to forget about that thing. Thanks a lot.

In Icewind Dale I had the PCs fight an awakened Mammoth with druid levels, just so it could cast Jump and leap off a hilltop at them.

I wrote up something like that a while back, for a pair of dragonborn PCs - I primarily remember that dragons considered Avarice to be a virtue, sort of the opposite of Sloth. Like how some humans consider Ambition to be a virtue while others don't.

I feel like the problem with the spell is that the 100 hp threshhold is too low for modern D&D. What about something simple like "This spell automatically kills one creature - A legendary creature may expend a legendary saving throw to negate the effect?"

I'm not going to run this after all, but when I was considering it I was totally planning a story on why there were in these adventures.

No spoilers! I had so much fun watching everyone else watching the first two seasons of Game of Thrones!

Legal Eagle ft. Matt Colville I thought this should maybe have its own thread for discussion?

I always wanted to base a campaign world around surrealist landscapes, but I haven't found very many pictures to use that didn't include blatant references to technology, so I haven't gone further with the idea.