Recent content by stevelabny

I don't know how your players feel, but I would personally HATE this, and you might want to ask what they think. As a player, I am controlling only my ONE character, so I am very well aware of my hit points at all times and so is any player with the least bit of investment. If you think I...

As a DM: I prefer to roll combat rolls and as many rolls as possible - open, in public. So players 1> know I'm not fudging in favor of the monsters because some of them have had horror stories and 2> player's know I'm not fudging in favor of the players either, which makes every combat suddenly...

A 12 year necromancy and I don't even REMEMBER this thread at all.

Had my replacement Monster Manual delivered today and gave the UPS driver the return. No problems.

Oops. I missed that post and tried to do a quick search beforehand but it didn't come up. And its not a big deal, since I ordered from Amazon.

Anyone else get their copy from Amazon and have this problem? Ink is smeared horizontally the entire width of the two page spread. Makes the pages almost illegible. Figured I should check before I contact Amazon.

Most of the pure co-ops have already been mentioned. Sentinels of the Multiverse, Robinson Crusoe, Arkham Horror, Pathfinder: Adventure Card Game, Pandemic. So here's three more and some special cases. Forbidden Island - the Gateway to cop-op games. Its light and quick but I like it. I...

I also just noticed that you're in Brooklyn. Where/when is this 5E Dragonlance game with minotaur bards happening and is the group already full? I just made a new board game buddy on BGG, maybe I should find a 5E group too.

I just saw this thread. I was all happy at the thought of using Arcana to mimic a wizard the same way you can use Thieves' Tools to mimic a rogue. It made perfect sense, and hey, the "Use Magic Device" skill got rolled into "Knowledge: Arcane" to form "Arcana" the same way other skills have...

I feel the Free Range-r pun is worth it alone. But from his description, he needs an eyepatch and maybe a parrot. But I'm also partial to the cowbell bard. But only if he dresses impeccably.

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To sum up my thoughts in the spoiler thread without spoilers. I like the non-linearity of the entire adventure. Every location has multiple ways around and you can pretty much do them in any order too. (with the usual problems from jumping too far ahead) There's a few potential TPKs based on...

How to find a lost warforged? MAGNETS!

I like that philosophy in general. My problem here is specifically - the folk hero has "get rid of the dragon" as his personal goal. If we're giving inspiration as a game mechanic for players role-playing, the folk hero isn't going to want to NOT go after the dragon. The druid first tries to...

I've been liking what I've seen of 5E so far and was thinking at the very least, it would be a great introductory RPG. So, just in case, I delved into the Lost Mine. My comments are going to be a little all-over the place but are hopefully going to be rules-light and focus on the adventure...