Recent content by The Sigil

I skimmed through the thread and didn't catch who said it, so sorry for not giving credit, but the most salient point I've seen so far in this thread was something to the effect of, "people love the game D&D. What they hate is the company selling it." It's worth pointing out that most of us...

My recommendation is usually to prepare maps at different scales (or if you have software that allows you to zoom to the scale you want, so much the better). I typically find 8 miles to the hex is a nice scale for plotting kingdoms, while something like 2 miles per hex (where movement is about 1...

I have always assumed that the idea was less something super-granular like "track minutes of daylight on a given day, multiply speed per round by rounds per minute by minutes of daylight" to see exactly how many feet you have travelled ... and more the idea of "this should be a close enough...

I would tend to agree that B11 is not the most exciting or original adventure ever written.. but it has DM-helper inserts that are not adventure-specific (the best example being the "adventure clock") that I have found are helpful to anyone trying to get a good handle on running BECMI.

This was precisely the sort of thing I was looking for. Thank you!

I've used Fantasy Grounds, Foundry, and Owlbear Rodeo; of the three I found Owlbear Rodeo to be the most intuitive, but it's not really what I'm looking for. Specifically, I'm not looking for something that rolls all the dice for me and knows all the rules. What I really need is a VTT where I...

If I could find an intuitive VTT I might consider it, but having tried several VTTs I have yet to find one I find intuitive. And I work on computers for a living and host an MMORPG I coded from scratch (my interface isn’t intuitive either - intuitive interfaces are HARD).

Do you have a source to cite here? Not being snarky, I tried to find something more current than 2017 but my google fu failed. I am genuinely curious.

I would just assume that Dwarves have fallen in popularity while gnomes, tieflings, and goliaths have surged in popularity since 2017 and Is Your D&D Character Rare? and WotC is focusing its resources on the current most popular races. No, Scanlan, Jester, and Grog, I have no idea at all what...

Couldn't find it up-thread, but you pointed out that it's easier to start DM'ing at 10 (when you're still being encouraged to "imagine" a lot) than when you're 30-ish. Totally agree with you there. Also, that's an interesting spread of paid players. If I was trying to come up with an...

I don't think DM'ing is hard. I do think DM'ing WELL is hard. I also don't think we DM'd well at 10 years old. Of course, our 10-year old peers didn't have a high bar of expectations for us to meet, either. To say nothing of the fact that if I recall correctly the average "new game" skews...

The burden of playing is far less than the burden of DMing (putting aside the monetary commitment we seem to take for granted hits a DM harder as the DM seems to be expected to buy more stuff, let's consider a DM that is in a group where everyone is sharing a single PHB, DMG, and MM). Playing...

So I've been looking to start creating some personalized maps I can use running my TTRPGs... but I do like using prepackaged settings and to my great disappointment, most of the map-making software I've tried out is AWFUL at importing maps. Mostly my goal is to "dumb down" published maps into...