Recent content by Seramus

That's true, complete restoration of combat nova power is certainly an issue. It's one of the biggest reasons why I prefer the Per Encounter style approach more prevalent in 4E or Daggerheart. You can say that about any planning the party attempts. And at least in my case, you can't force calm...

Looks very pretty! The voices seem slightly off sync, but maybe that's just me. Overall awesome.

It's essentially asking if you randomly lose 10-15 minutes of valuable gameplay time. Then it's on the DM to make that 10-15 minutes of random encounter as entertaining as possible. And DMs often succeed in doing so! Not always though.

Resting in a "Place of Calm and Safety" probably qualifies as overt fiat, but I try to be somewhat liberal with it. Yes, the inn back at town counts. So might the hermit's hut in the deep of the forest you discover while hexcrawling. That ruined shrine you find in the second level of the...

Just making Long Rests a "Place of Calm and Safety" goes a long way. I definitely fall into the crowd of people who tends towards a few narrative fights per day. I wasn't about to change my style to force 6-8 encounters, so I looked at resting options instead. A week from the gritty realism...

Should definitely be room. Rune Knight, Echo Knight, World Tree, Ancestral Guardian, etc already exist. The door to supernatural fighter is open.

I once had a lightsaber, and the DM literally had me roll to see if I tripped going up some stairs. I fumbled and killed another player with the saber. I did not come back next session.

There's a post about that on these very forums! To spare a click: "Oops! I forgot to post one that is rather glaring. According to Dave Arneson the "Egg of Coot" was created from the name "Gregg Scott," the chap who ran the MicroArmor casting company some years back. Gregg dismissed fantasy...

Many years ago I came up with a convoluted death trap to kill a major villain who wasn't supposed to die that early. We discovered upon death that it was a Black Dragon in disguise. After the game, the other players were mad at me. They told me I killed the DM's favorite NPC, and that meant he...

To he/she it may concern. To him/her it may concern. Both feel weird.

It's pretty beneficial to have at least one person in the party with strong Intelligence skills. Being the "Exposition Person" is attractive to some people, and making those critical knowledge rolls can save a lot of time and grief. It IS true that you don't need those skills, especially if your...

Extended Cloudkill into any enclosed room or just down into a cave. A lot of enemies are immune to poison, but when they are not, things get very spicy.

Nothing. It hasn't been done. Someone just mentioned Jester screaming through Sending at some point, and I cracked up imagining someone screaming 25 times. Even doing it as an intentional tactic to mess someone up - like Sending screams to someone trying to give a political speech, or repeatedly...

I'm still waiting for someone to use the tactic of using Sending to scream as loud and as long as they can... 25 times. Imagine a GOO Warlock doing that to you all night long. :LOL:

We don't use it. Or rather, it's something understood to be normal in their own culture, and you will encounter it in kender areas, but kender players are expected to have broken the habit. To be fair, I've allowed middle grounds like Twig Twiddleknot, who checked his pockets before he left any...