Recent content by Zippee

Well I am my DM most of the time. And yes I narrate but no I do not differentiate HP damage in those ways. The vast majority of HP damage is not physical damage and I find descriptions of cuts and wounds silly with creatures dying from a thousand cuts. The final handful of points or the blow...

No not really - in the case of observing a fireball, you will see all (except maybe for creatures with damage immunity=fire, who may just stand and laugh at you) creatures in the AOE fall, dive, roll, hold up shields, etc. (whatever the narrative flavour of 'roll a saving throw' is for them) but...

I'd rather call it an opportunity to generate interesting plot twists.

It's not playing coy, nor is it concealing the effects of a spell, nor is it denying a spellcaster insight. A save is something inherent to the creature making the save not the event provoking it. If there's an obvious and clear indication of pass/fail then sure that's obvious and clear but if...

I see those as slighty but significantly different to the point under discussion. Do players know how much damage they inflict - yes because rolling dice is important and I'm not taking that from them. And it's their character doing it. Do players know what their initiative is - yes because...

Whilst I agree with this, all affected creatures get to make a saving throw, not just the successful ones. So all creatures are attempting to roll under the effect, dodge round a corner, tip a table up, etc. Being unsuccessful on your save doesn't imply you stood rooted to the spot gaping in...

Not half as grating as all those U.S. books that write 'die' when they mean 'dice' - the missing 'u's I can gloss over, but this is just plain wrong and nasty :)

So doesn't mean you cannot heal during combat. I think you need to understand what 'inability' means Also, you're wrong.

Seriously you think more has changed this time around than when they smashed a whole 'nother world into the planet and stripped continents and nations out on a whim and inserted random demi-planes all over the place. Or maybe that time the gods got bored and came down to earth and someone...

Even if FR had nothing there would be no need for other [official] worlds - because the expectation is that you play in some form of homebrew world. Even if it started as a published setting, one session in and your canon is unique. In other words the expectation is that there will be / are a...

I don't think the community is - the majority (probably vast majority) are just playing the game in the settings provided or in their own worlds (be that continuations of older settings or pure homebrew) and couldn't care less if WotC ever released more setting info, that would of necessity...

I'm not aware of WotC saying that they will, all I've heard is them refusing to say they will not release a new setting, leaving it open (mainly to avoid the tirade that would follow any such statement I presume). I think the only way a 'new' setting may materialise is in a specific AP such as...

This is probably the most insidious and destructive conclusion drawn out of 3ed development. The concept that players needed the rules to 'protect them from bad GMs', that the players should 'know the rules' so that DMs couldn't make stuff up. This rapidly became 'DM's cheat if they don't use...

I don't. I really don't see why we need more official settings - if you want a setting that isn't FR/generic then write one , pick up a third party one or use an old one. Settings never stop being compatible! Multiple official settings just dilutes official output and sales.

It wouldn't be used to introduce Greyhawk - that would be an option with a paragraph or two as in the other APs. SKT is the spiritual successor to the G modules, RoD-OotA the successor to D&Q modules and EE-PotA the successor to Temple of EE, so I wouldn't see a rehash of Slavers as is but an...