Recent content by aco175

Saw a video this morning about Basic/1e and level limits. Demi-humans such as elves and dwarves had cool powers such as poison save bonus or dark vision at the expense of capping out at a level such as 12, where humans could go on to max out at 50 or whatever the edition you were playing. The...

Conan -cool. Commando -no. Sometimes they just gotta let it go. "and a Colonel John Matrix comeback could actually finally be on the cards as Arnie has now read a Commando sequel script. All of which is to say that Arnold Schwarzenegger will be back, and back, and back again. No complaints...

I'm not sure I would spend time making charts for random 0-level PCs. I guess since you got roped in to DM you set the perimeters, but the players should also need to do something. I find 1st level weak enough and you can still funnel them through a death-march if you want. Spend the time on...

A party of 10th level PCs is way more powerful than it look. A 5th level caster going against them will die in the first round and not do much if he gets to go in the first place. A 5th level caster is a CR1 or maybe 2 monster with a fireball it might do something. Counterspell might do...

Is this the only fight of the day, or has the PCs battles some other things and are down on resources? Seems like the 5th level spellcaster should be a 15th level. The CR7 mind flayer does have a DC15 INT save blast that could hurt some. I would have 3 of them and skip the other caster...

If I was the man, I would change a lot of little things and a few big things like make classes distinct and not so many of them. I would not go to just 3 with the magic, fighter, skill man, but have less than 10 that can work. I would tone down magic from doing everything and limit it to just...

I'm always a fan of making rules that are easy and as simple as they need to be. I'm not sure why you cannot move out of an opponents reach unless you take the disengage action? This takes your action and limits you doing anything like attacking. The current way of allowing this gives the...

In the Army we called it Crawl, Walk, Run. I think the Scouts call it the EDGE method. Basically it is teaching methods of learning where you learn by being shown, then you do it with help, then you do it , then you teach it. Once you are able to teach something it should mean that you know...

I have had a different series of games based on life places. When we were kids we played with the neighborhood kids and everyone made up stuff and some of the kids liked it more than others and some became longer players and others played a few times or when it was raining or something. Later...

Looking at the above post I also see that the Gimp died from Pulp Fiction. Stephen Hibbert died at 68 years. Not sure what else he was in.

I like this idea. I give out one 'luck' point each night which is like inspiration but can be used for any roll. I could using this to influence the narrative like the example of a hay wagon under a window. As the DM I cannot think of everything before hand and usually roll a d20 if the...

5e has done so well, like 3e when it came out. Not sure what they would want to change like making 4e seemed to change a lot and people we not sure it was the same 'feel'. So to change the edition enough to buy all new everything and still be D&D night be hard. What to dump and what to keep...

It is always situation dependent. How many times have we had a discussion on something like fighters suck or rangers suck, or.... If the game played favors that, then it does not suck. But other peoples game doers not highlight this and it does. Certain spells or feats or blaster mages vs...