Recent content by AnotherGuy

That's a nice way of putting it. Often it is my players who tend to drive the spectacle and if it passes the table's general sense of realism it is accepted into the story.

I think I understand your point better now. Sorry slow day. So the majority of us are like-minded at the table where the mechanics need to match what is being narrated in the fiction. If the mechanics need adjusting then we are not hesitant to make the necessary adjustments.

I have several games on my shelf and many more in electronic format which I have not made the effort to run or indeed do a decent read through. I purchased them because the intention was (and still is) to one day run them even as mini-campaigns or as a once-off. My table is now heavily involved...

I would say yes - certainly at our table. I will have to take your word re Gygax as it has been a while, but I do recall Coup De Grâce being a thing within 3e and/or 5e within the rule books. 5e has many many ways to run the example with the ogre and stationery non-defending PC Besides what I...

If a person declares they are standing stock still while an ogre is swinging a club at them then they are not actively attempting to avoid the blow. I may call to adjust their AC, I may deem a successful hit to be a critical hit, I may impose a condition with the successful hit with or without a...

I now have an urge to include wheat fields, pear tree farms and apiary meadows as part of a travel montage

I didn't even know that was a thing. In what liquid (if any) are they stored with within the can?

I'm a fan all around. It can take the game in interesting directions as it should. The table comes together to interpret the how Wild Magic result bests plays out in the fiction. It can provide story hooks for both players and DMs. It is fun mechanic that should be expanded upon by an...

So BlackRock is buying itself (again) as is Vanguard and State Street. They're just hoping to consolidate admin costs.

I'm loving this and this is exactly pertinent to why I want to explore high level play as I intend the campaign to delve into the cosmology of the multiverse and omniverse and find a way to marry this content with planescape with the dimensions and realities of BECMI with ideas of my own etc...

Definitely Murder in Baldur's Gate...

Greek potatoes (as @Cadence posts above) are lemon-roasted with dried oregano - there are now variations with additional herbs but lemon and oregano are the requirement. As for the best potato - roasted, mashed and baked are the trifecta for me.

5 July 2025

This is not a healthy attitude to still have - firstly it has been years and secondly many of the ideas of 4e have found themselves in later editions and other games. And plenty of us champion many of these ideas now, even when we didn't appreciate the edition at the time.

My table is 16th level, I do not spoon feed them anymore particularly if I'm using map and key. The party took on the ancient blue wyrm Iymrith and won, but knowing (and having seen) that blue dragons burrow - they did not think to search the "treasure room" for buried treasure. They used...