Recent content by theRogueRooster

I'll be discussing elements of Episode I of Hoard of the Dragon Queen. Here be spoilers. This Saturday my group will be starting our first foray into 5E with HotDQ. I've got a fairly large group of eight players. For the start of the campaign, half of the characters will start in a tavern...

I'm using it on an iPad 2 and loving it. I have the DM app as well but don't love it quite as much. For those with an iPhone, how well does it work? Is your character's info easily accessible on the tiny screen? For the iPad it's perfect, but I don't know if I should recommend this to friends...

According to the popcorn article, if it's your turn and the only characters left to act are all delaying, you can't choose to wait. So the above situation shouldn't occur.

I really like the concept of the popcorn method and may introduce it into my campaign. As a thought experiment: I wonder if a little uncertainty could be added to the system by adding in the concept of momentum: if your action involves a d20 roll and you hit or succeed with it, your side keeps...

I don't think it's possible. Out of curiosity, what do you feel is missing?

You can send them feedback from the app by tapping the cog in the lower right of the initial screen and then tapping Send E-mail. Looks like the email address is: lionsden.contact@gmail.com Personally, I'm really enjoying the app. I'm running it on an iPad 2. I like the layout and how easy it...

Except the only spells that have a range of 5 feet that I could find in the PHB is Word of Recall and the ranger's Cordon of Arrows. My guess is that the situation is deliberate. A wizard isn't meant to be a pet class. The chainlock has a better argument for being a pet class, but not...

Some offensive spells do have a range of touch. For example, Shocking Grasp. But sadly for my prospective chainlock, there exist very few spells with the range of touch, combat oriented or otherwise. Also, a familiar's ability to deliver spells explicitly keys off of those with the range of...

Right, but familiars can deliver spells with a range of Touch, which for the purposes of this discussion is what is meant by Touch Spell.

One of my favorite characters from the 3.5 era was an elderly and physically debilitated wizard who used the spell Spectral Hand to deliver touch attack spells from a distance. I loved that kooky old guy and thought I'd try to recreate him in 5th. It turns out that there is no Spectral Hand...

Out of curiosity, what happens when Charlie Sheen faces off against Chuck Norris? -tRR

I am working with my local library in starting up an after school roleplaying group aimed at teens. As we began hammering out the details it occurred to me that what I'd really like to do at the start is to have the program be a kind of Intro to RPGs. The idea is that every month or two we'd...

I'd love to see something like this as well, just to see what voodoo you guys use to make it move so fast. I play online with Fantasy Grounds and Skype -- where attack and damage rolls are literally a click away with bonuses added right in, tokens are quickly moved on the battle map, nobody...

On the subject of character classes, since we are setting the Dungeon/Adventure as the basic element of gameplay, it makes sense to me to balance the classes by the same criteria, meaning not all classes need be combat oriented, as long as they can take the lead in other types of encounters...

This is very interesting! I've been thinking for some time about a way to incorporate Mouse Guard's conflict rules in place of 4E's skill challenges. As you probably know, Mouse Guard is vaguely similar to Burning Wheel, though conflicts only use 4 action types: Attack, Defend, Feint, and...