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I’ve don’t it a few times as the person on zoom while everyone else is in a living room. It’s ok. Not great, because you can’t see everyone’s face or the battle map necessarily. But it did the job!

We currently contrive an excuse for why their character isn’t there. Including a retcon if necessary. It’s absolutely fine if that is embarrassing for the character. In fact better if it is. Lost, fast asleep, locked in a cellar, distracted, misunderstanding with the watch, missed the stage...

That sounds easier to order than having to take the screen out first. Mine is a MSI. Luckily it had a frame clipped in place that was easy to unclip then replace. Also the ‘ungluing’ and ‘gluing’ was just a case of pulling the broken one off the small strips of sticky back plastic and then...

Today I learned that I can successfully change a laptop screen. Like a pillock I picked my laptop with a thumb on the screen two weeks ago and cracked it right down the middle. It was basically unusable and it’s quite a nice laptop so I was pretty annoyed but my own fault. I have a plug in...

No more important, and yet still important. Taking a vote and forcing one player (the DM) to agree or be deemed unreasonable is one approach. Another approach is to just to agree collectively not to include things that other folks don’t like. I equally wouldn’t like it if the DM was forcing an...

Oh lord I’ve just read the posts. No need to get into that again.

Is it even a problem if something is excluded because as a DM I simply don’t like it? Not that it couldn’t be worked in, but because I don’t want to have to? If there is enough overlap in the Venn diagram why pick stuff that’s not in the overlap. I’m not a fan of anthropomorphic races. I just...

The same applies when my friend DMs for me. I’m grateful for the time he puts in and his skills. There is very little I wouldn’t agree to.

They have been playable in other editions just not yet. Though there are several fan versions and at least one companion book added rules that would make it very easy to add one.

I’m very lucky that my main group basically always says to me “We will enjoy the game most, that you enjoy running the most” and they pretty much always let me pick what to do. I get where they’re coming from. A game I’m enjoying is going to get more time investment from me. I’ll work harder at...

There’s a lot of wiggle room, agency and fun in deciding how to explore and what to do when they come into contact with things. Paizo’s adventure paths were the core of the product range and at that time their unique selling point. D&D became its most successful when it started releasing...

You’re right that everything exists in Eberron but in truth Eberron is a collection of settings (much as the Forgotten Realms is but dialed up to ten). Just because it encapsulates a few dozen different thematic biomes and cultures on the planet doesn’t mean that everything from every one of...

I approve this appointment. If I now see something in a published product I don’t like I can say “What the Haeck!” Seriously, good luck to them though. I thoroughly enjoyed Dragon Heist, one of my favorite products. Not because it was flawless but because it had so much opportunity and...

I’ve playing a weekend long session with @GuyBoy almost every month for about 20 years and in the last five am online session a couple of times a month as well. Ever since the heady days of GuyCon in the early 2000’s. He worst the first other person who DM’ed for me and we have alternated games...

The problem is that the swing of a +1 to +20 modifier depending on the dice roll is just too great to allow repeated re-rolls. While artificially adjusting DCs feels arbitrary. I would allow someone else to try but only if they are more skilled than the first person to try. Of course the real...

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Worth remembering that the kids are heroes that saved the world multiple times. Some or all of that is documented by the military and other agencies. Also worth remembering it is effectively over. The gate is closed, the upside down destroyed and as far as they are concerned El is dead and gone...

Well they were just kids… Not to mention that summoning the sorceress was more like bringing back a ex player character as an NPC for one last hurrah. I’ve seen worse.

So seems the Mind Flayer particles were the big bad end guy all along and touching them was what gave Henry and by extension everyone transfused with his blood the psychic powers. Did not expect that. I thought Henry was the prime mover. I like the neat explanation. Also that Vecnas voice was...

It was a little over 30 minutes or so from the upside down collapsing to the credits. 5 minutes in total on the kids each saying goodbye to their significant others, 5 mins on valedictorian speech. 5 mins on the on the older group, Nancy et al, 5 mins on Joyce and Hopper. 10 mins on the final...