Recent content by AdmundfortGeographer

I’m still not getting the flow of negotiations. Only been the 2nd though and I still feel clumsy. My players are also clumsy role players themselves. Regardless, last time the heroes entered the mage tower with about half recoveries. Then they for wrecked by the first encounter. So tonight I...

I was going to stick with 5E with 2024 no matter what and I was glad to see the updating that ended up on the product. I’ve been a forever DM in D&D-only since the mid-80s. (Not counting our Battletech and Car Wars side time in the 90s). But I got the $10 Delian Tomb because I loved MCDMs work...

No experience with either, but if it helps an immediate choice, in a recent twitch stream demo-ing Codex one of the developers in chat mentioned that while all the classes were done to the 1st level, not all monsters were yet entered in.

To me the rules do not simulate fiction, fiction emerges from the play. A caster is not doing anything to charge up. Like they aren’t doing anything to hold onto the energy waiting to be released through casting, I guess. It’d be passive. In general out of combat isn’t measured in six-second...

A variation could be to import a Draw Steel-fication where higher level spells are unlocked for post-initiative casting after a certain number of rounds have passed. Could use tiers of play to base the rate?

I believe it is the cancer of 5E multiclassing. Designing and balancing classes against experience of how multiclassing in expected has stifled class design for a decade. So to avoid the broken unexpected edge cases that can’t possibly be planned with eccentric new mechanics, class design...

I can understand that. But Draw Steel’s power roll mechanic just fits you into 1 of 3 tiered results by basically a table lookup. So a roll of 3 on 2d10 but with double edge just grants the middle tier result which normally requires a 12-16. Practically getting +10 bonus for pitiful dice roll...

Yeah, getting the framework that a 1st level; Draw Steel characters are possibly closer to a 5th level character in D&D. I’d recommend strongly The Delian Tomb. $10 for a full started set experience, including such that the start of the adventure literally has the Director narrate like a video...

This does seem to be an underreported expectation. That the combat maps should be interesting and filled a bunch with believable utility. Our group has had years of Gloomhaven/Frosthaven play and scenarios with few-to-none objects/traps/hazardous terrain are fine but quite a few characters in...

My group has much more gotten the feel of the combat and we vibe with it. My table’s players are really getting into the tactics of position for flanking or high ground or pushing into objects/walls/foes/vertically. It has taken a couple sessions but the group has found the grove where Draw...

I’ve favored the Dalelands too. But when I’m running there I include the Moonsea and Dragon Reach, with Sembia hugging the coast and little interior. My vision however is stuck in the gray box presentation with the Moonsea city states much closer rivals jockeying for favorable position in the...

A very important thing about the possible Hamanu redemption in Lynn Abbey’s final book is that it was also read from Hamanu’s perspective, a very unreliable narrator of themselves. Anyone is bound to put their own story in a flattering light, especially someone like that. But Lynn had zero...

I may be misremembering, but I though that it was not explicit the Blue Age halfling ancestors used themselves as raw material to create the new species, or if the new species were life-shaped out of the ocean material everything else that was life-shaped.

Directors are given flexibility for adjudicating advantageous reasons. High ground is already noted in the rules as one though. To get wonky in the math: Roles are 2d10, you get one of three results. One advantage is called an Edge, it is +2 on that role. Two advantages (double Edge) bumps the...

It was also to mathematically sorta balance the equipment rules that had weaker materials that did less damage and broke. Most seemed to ignore the fragile material rules though.