Recent content by TheSword

Art is essential for me when playing VTT. If it isn’t in the product then it’s a job for me to go out and hunt some down. However poor quality art is next to useless anyway. So if you going do a crappy sketch or a blobby pastel face id rather you not bother… Case in point…

Don’t forget humans. I’m playing a very short human illusionist in a Vecna campaign. He’s based on this guy (those that know know) and I do a half decent voice impression. People keep confusing him with a dwarf which he finds quite offensive and he always corrects people. He’s quite camp and...

Really good point. It is actually a framework for sensibly working out how to avoid a fight altogether. If the combat starts and the party are already above enemy resolve then they really don’t want this fight. Just off my head I started thinking how this could make monster hunt type...

Yes. I think it would potentially need to replace something. Probably inspiration as Tonguez suggested. Although an alternative could be to use slightly tougher foes because fighting until death wouldn’t be the only combat resolution. I see a lot of fight to the death ends to fights and very...

I’ve been teaching myself the rules for Imperium Maladictum a 40k RPG and one mechanic in the game I found quite interesting and worth sharing - Superiority and Resolve. It got me thinking about whether this would work in D&D and wouldn’t encourage the kind of player behaviors I like to see in...

I’ve don’t it a few times as the person on zoom while everyone else is in a living room. It’s ok. Not great, because you can’t see everyone’s face or the battle map necessarily. But it did the job!

We currently contrive an excuse for why their character isn’t there. Including a retcon if necessary. It’s absolutely fine if that is embarrassing for the character. In fact better if it is. Lost, fast asleep, locked in a cellar, distracted, misunderstanding with the watch, missed the stage...

That sounds easier to order than having to take the screen out first. Mine is a MSI. Luckily it had a frame clipped in place that was easy to unclip then replace. Also the ‘ungluing’ and ‘gluing’ was just a case of pulling the broken one off the small strips of sticky back plastic and then...

Today I learned that I can successfully change a laptop screen. Like a pillock I picked my laptop with a thumb on the screen two weeks ago and cracked it right down the middle. It was basically unusable and it’s quite a nice laptop so I was pretty annoyed but my own fault. I have a plug in...

No more important, and yet still important. Taking a vote and forcing one player (the DM) to agree or be deemed unreasonable is one approach. Another approach is to just to agree collectively not to include things that other folks don’t like. I equally wouldn’t like it if the DM was forcing an...

Oh lord I’ve just read the posts. No need to get into that again.