Recent content by TheSword

All sounds good to me. There are four PCs to track their character’s stuff and one DM to track every other creature in the world. Makes sense to reduce the PCs a smidgen than increase everyone else.

Sure, no problem having that in treasure. The techological equivalent of a magic weapon. I’d also let there be blessed silver bullets inscribed with crosses, blunderbus that can be loaded with bits of cutlery and feats that let pistols that can be fired out of initiative order. Loads of fun to...

Late to this party, but… They’re just another type of weapon, nothing inherently special about them. I’ve been playing WFRP 4e with a wide range of guns for years, it plays the same. Make them martial weapons, make sure they have Loading. Don’t create a feat that removes this. There seems to...

Interesting. My interpretation was that it was condition for flight at 5’ reduced speed. Have you got a reference to anything saying that you can’t fly if encumbered in this way?

I read Night of the Walking Dead today. I enjoyed it. Enough going on to make it interesting with some great encounters. Loved the chained coffin being carried through the village as it rattles. Will work through the other ones.

Surely if you’re flying all you have to be able to do is lift them? The rules say, drag, push or lift and move 5’ speed.

Can someone check my rule interpretation on this? The party comes to a 60’ wide chasm that they need to cross. Luckily the wizard still has the fly spell active on themself. They have strength 10 and are already carrying 10lbs of kit. The rogue weighs 140lbs with armor and equipment, the cleric...

I miss the days when a well made longbow added strength to damage. This combo somewhat evokes that feeling. I like it.

Well there are arguments in favor of both methods. Sometimes being a jack of all trades gets the job done to a degree you’re happy with.

Fair enough. But I prefer to think of D&D as a series of dials and switches, that a DM can manipulate. Turn Magic items up a bit, turn Ability Scores down, turn Monster challenge up, toggle Multiclass off. Move the healing length slider down. It can always be broken by a player that seeks to...

Events dear boy, events. As Harold Mcmillan said. Advantage acquired from any one of a number of sources, moves things even further towards the dice roll mattering more than ability stat and will probably mean now the ‘idiot’ beats the ‘genius’

Curse of Strahd aside of course, which I do consider to be an excellent adventure - are there any published under the Ravenloft brand do folks think or are they pretty universally shazbat? I’ve been reading through a lot of the 1e and 2e adventures and they seem to be a pretty disappointing...

I wonder is the Golden Legend cool? Is it worth researching.

I can’t disagree. I suspect there would be pushback from the general public. Particularly in an open online campaign. Would it cause folks on Start Playing to walk on by… I suspect yes. It’s a shame though because I think it would improve a Ravenloft game. I would keep it in the bag for a home...

I got two out of three. Had no idea the Tarrasque came from Provence