Recent content by txshusker

i once had a character get married. the wife hindered everything i wanted to do: "I'm going to go raid an orc hideout, dear." "did you ever think that I may want to get out sometimes, too?" since i don't like reality in my fantasy gaming, i killed off the character.

This is one of my favorite posts for a while, now. 1) you're back into it. 2) you're teaching 11yr olds 3) they were crafty enough to take a captive. 4) they were invested in the captive! 5) you killed their hopes like a good DM who crushes souls. :) I can't wait until they're 12 and you take...

A few weeks ago I was going through a bunch of AD&D modules to see if any would convert well for our new 5e campaign. I opened up C2, the Castle of Inverness and found handwritten notes by my best friend who got us into the game and always DMd for us. He had added a bunch of traps in the...

The week before Xmas, The BAM near me had a table in the middle of the traffic maze that leads into the shelves with about 10 starter sets and 3 stacks of PHBs and the DMGs and MMs were very easy to find on the shelf. Don't know if it's 'cause they were overstocked and trying to move them... but...

Well, I was just adjudicating it differently from Sacrosanct as to when the damage was done : The quote is "When a creature enter's the spell's area for the first time on a turn or starts it's turn there..." The first part wouldn't be necessary in the description if the spell was limited to the...

I would agree with Kamikazee on this one... you could move it to engulf a 5ft area and do the damage and not hope something walks into it... like flaming sphere that you can bang into creatures. I could see where your definition fits the description as well, but I think it defeats the purpose of...

Well, that's my point, too. As I said in my first post, if it does not fit into your theme, thats the only problem I see. But a lot of other DMs are concerned about the mechanics. And a lot of players are min/maxers... welcome to game theory 101, really. The sabermatricianing of DnD happened in...

Truly... but i don't see any evidence of mechanics that combine to make a character Superman and immune to the effects of kryptonite. No reason to say - "hey, Darren, I think you should multi-class,... but a "Mind if I multi-class?" question from a player isn't that big of a deal. Perhaps a "I...

Well, what's the major reason for the creation of an AP? To give the players a long term thing to play without having to worry about creating a new scenario every session or two. And with this one, at a time when all the rules still aren't published and known. So the length of the two shouldn't...

I guess I'm not understanding what could be wrong with multi classing after all of this. I don't see any proof that it overpowers a character or breaks the combat or makes something that a DM cannot deal with. When MC happens, it's at the expense of powers gained if single classed and the...

Honestly, every version has always been on the DM. A DM can always make up for min/maxing and too powerful characters by going off script and bulking up the opposition. RPGs are living things that appear to have rules but have always been guidelines. And I really don't see much problems with RAW...

What happened to senses of humor? I haven't gone high in levels as player or DM yet, but the game appears to be pretty even keeled. DMs giving lots of magic items but not doing anything extra to monsters in combat could hurt, but i don't see how it would break anything. And it's a decision of...

I just had my nieces roll - they've never played. Instead of the array, which I would normally use, I had them roll to take the experience and try and teach them some about the game. 7x 4d6, drop the lowest 6 and then drop the lowest total. She ended up with 18, 18, 17, 14, 12, 11. I almost made...

Dex Ranger with Ensaring strike, maybe? BTW... did the wiz try a web? Wonder how that might have been DM'd in this encounter, since there are varying opinions on webbing a kite.

this is perhaps the saddest and loneliest post I've ever read on ENW. Characters that are created but never played.... I think I literally teared up thinking about their stagnant existences in some manila folder as if they were on the Island of Misfit Toys. :( Roll20 is good advice. And...