Recent content by Trickster Spirit

Huh, can't believe I missed that, and the Android spellcards right above it to boot. Glad to see a repository of things like this - hey Morrus, forgive me if something like it is already lurking somewhere in the various resources pages, but any chance we could get a fixed "5E resources"...

I would actually lobby pretty heavily to see kobold.club added to the list - I've found it invaluable for calculating encounter budgets without having to crunch all the DMG math manually each time I idly kick around an encounter for next week's session.

Almost 10 pages now of people going on about how excited they are that the next AP will be Ravenloft, or how much they're convinced WotC will botch it, but this is basically what I think is actually going to happen. Literally nothing that's been said so far makes me think they're going to set...

It's Dis rather than Stygia, but I've found plenty of Nine Hells inspiration to steal from in this thread.

This would be my preference - that way a Mind Flayer can still shrug off a Fireball or bolt of lightning seemingly unharmed, but still allow for groups to overwhelm it with sheer concentrated spellfire.

An biologist, a physicist and a mathematician are on a train in Scotland. Looking out the window, the biologist sees a black sheep standing in a field. "Aha," says the biologist, "I see that Scottish sheep are black." "Hmm," says the physicist, "You mean that some Scottish sheep are black."...

That would be the ideal solution to satisfy all parties - make everything filterable so that you can include or exclude content as you see fit - but unfortunately it sounds like it's not technically feasible for a vBulletin forum. :(

Eh, if that is the case then essentially I'm going to get limited use out of ENWorld until the end of next month. :( It's probably my lurker roots shining through, but my typical daily visit to ENWorld is a two-step process - A, I visit the news page to see if there are any interesting articles...

Oof, my own group is only 7 players and it's giving me headaches trying to balance time spent in the spotlight. I take it they rotate in and out on a regular basis or have multiple campaigns going on?

I thing GMs are intrinsically skewed more towards the "dedicated" rather than "casual" side of things, just because of the prep work that GMing typically requires; however I agree with Remathilis who's pointed out that adventure paths are designed to lift that burden as much as it can be and...

I'd challenge the first assertion, though. "Casual gamers", at least not the gamers that I refer to as "casual gamers" when I use the term, by definition are not hanging out at places like ENWorld. Casual gamers, at least as I've always understood the term, are gamers who show up to the...

Yeah, but honestly the repeated "starting off slow" and "determine what the audience wants before we put out a product" quotes from Wizard have been consistent for close to a year now - none of this is really that shocking, they've never said that things are set in stone forever and that they'd...

Most interesting to me was the line about how surveys are showing them that the D&D audience is the youngest it's ever been (well, since WotC acquired the game, I take it), which tracks with my own anecdotal observations and also bodes well for the game (and larger brand) as a whole.

Absolutely, I'm looking forward to the same product - however, if they announce it at PAX, it'll be a surprise announcement made during the actual convention, not something they announce ahead of time! If they don't announce it, it just means it's likely not coming out before the spring 2016...

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