Recent content by aco175

Isn't Indie RPGs like 10% of the market? How does one grow that without killing D&D? Or, when he says, Grow the hobby, I'm missing something larger and more wishy-washy. There seems to be a lot of new D&D-like or Not-D&D games coming out as clones. Does making more games just split the...

This was kind of updated and redone for the 5e Next playtest under Ghosts of Dragonspear Castle. I have it, but not played it. I did run the original back in '87(ish) which I recall having some side quests and a main site with orcs. Not all the side quests deal with orcs.

It is kind of cool, but I do not know what 'extended frontier' is or if it is assumed a certain level for the numbers to mean much. I'm also not sure what it is trying to say, ie if one is better than the other.

Never can go wrong with a +1 to AC. Don't know how many times I say, does a 16 hit and the player is all no- I'm an 17. Cheers all around.

Build tension where you can. just save or random damage is not cool enough. Maybe there a re places where the PC can try to do something a bit like a skill challenge to slow the gas or waste time as a trade-off. Now there is a choice of moving fast and taking less damage or shotting the gas...

I found that a lot of background only works if the DM uses it. Mostly a lot of background fluff stays there and the player might be the only one that cares. If a player creates a background village where they grew up- then have an adventure there and let the player come up with all sorts of...

Some might depend on playstyle. When I ran the Stormwreck Isle box I found that I needed to modify a lot for my game. The idea of a tiny village with nothing to do or sell did not fit my players. There was no reason these people needed to be there. It has some basic missions that should be...

I agree. A 1-sheet template would help sort out many factions. Some larger ones like the Harpers might need a few with having factions within factions. Depending on how deep you want to go with things. I was also thinking of the old book Cloak and Dagger for Forgotten Realms. I had a...

One of my issues right now is that I have only a few players, but lots of PCs. I cannot just hand the player a tent with a number on it. I guess they could place one on each of the character sheets and it might work. One thing I did and it works for me is to make a tracker on a pole with...

I saw a D&D video on factions. The author was saying that about anything is a faction from the kingdom-wide groups of soldiers or government workers to the village wives book club that meets on Sunday afternoon. Factions can have only a couple members and come and go at will. I guess an...

I never really liked to take other bits to make my 'concept' of a class/subclass. I get it though. The Skillful Survivalist feature seems like all rangers take Survival and it should be another skill from a list of outdoor skills and not any skill. Eye for Detail seems hard to arbitrate for...

I'm reading a lot of this and saying yep, yep, yep. I'm guessing there is a lot of overlap with most of us, especially at certain ages.

Its been a while but I thought that Permanency spell created something that once the spell is finished it is, well... permanent. Back in the day, I recall getting to the level of gaining a keep and tending to find one in disrepair that needed cleaning out and repair. Once one appeared in a...

@The Digital DM welcome to the site. I'm more just D&D instead of other games, but many here will tell you why a certain game is the best game in the history of games- ever. Hope they help you out.

Classic from 1984.