Recent content by WizarDru

My first D&D was the Basic box set with the Erol Otus artwork on a red cover, purchased by saving up money from mowing the lawn and my allowance (I'm thinking Basic, 9th printing). I loved it IMMENSELY. We played a few games of it and I was hooked enough to get AD&D (or 1E for you young people...

Here is an example of some attempts to print a new mini and the difficulties therein. Note the support material. Also note that one of the minis has a melted glob of plastic for a head, poor guy.

The funny thing here is that price isn't quite the determiner of print quality that you might think, at least not for FDM printers. At their heart, they are incredibly stupid machines: just a set of stepper motors, a heating element, some rails and some control hardware. That's a large reason...

Speaking as someone with two 3D printers (A Robo 3D R1+ and a Printrbot Simple Metal), I think I can speak a little to this. I have printed some D&D minis and some terrain, to varying effect. I'll try not to go overboard. :) There are several advantages and disadvantages to 3D printing minis...

Sounds great! I'll have to check it out. Amusingly enough, when I ran a GURPS Japan game years ago, I used the prelude to the Genpei War as my setting, with the players eventually getting drawn into the conflict. It was very much about a mythical version of Japan, of course, where the party...

Thanks to you both. That Init tracker is VERY COOL. I'll have to look into Fantasy Grounds. I'm more than happy to spend a little to get an adequate online solution, though I don't want my players to have to pay anything. Online tools would be an indulgence for me. d20Pro is one I'm not...

And just to clarify, my preference is for video chat and ideally the ability to share documents/images, send messages to individuals and possibly a dice roller function.

I'm planning on running an online 5E game for friends who don't live nearby. What do people prefer to use these days/recommend? I remember trying Roll20 and thinking it was decent enough then, but I'm curious what folks who currently run online games are using. Obviously I could use something...

Oh, I wouldn't put this forth without knowing my players would be willing to follow me on that journey. I'm looking to do something different with this new campaign in terms of setting. If one of my players felt really strongly about it, we'd find a compromise. My main concern was any hidden...

After double-checking the Fey and Draconic Ancestries, I think those should be fine, as is. Since there won't be any half-elves or half-orcs, they should continue to work as intended. I may consider some variation of using half-orcs AS orcs in terms of where players are concerned, if one of my...

So for the new setting I'm working on, I'm working with a few ideas with relatively minor mechanical implications. What I'm wondering is if there are effects that I'm missing that I may need to factor in. Due to a series of setting specific reasons, the following conditions apply: Skin colors...

We've had mobile devices and not so mobile devices (i.e laptops and even a desktop for me, since it's my house) for a long, long time. Do they distract us? Sometimes, sure. That's our environment. We're very social and informal, so we're not above breaking for a minute to watch a funny video...