Recent content by BenjaminPey

I ran Dragon Heist twice, the second time around in reverse. They were Xanathar's goons in charge of retrieving the dragons, which Jarlaxle stole. They had to reverse-engineer the whole heist to understand what happened, under pressure from their crazy boss. It was super fun — and only made...

I very much like these subclasses, because they all tell something. Good, evocative themes all around. The monk is the laziest, mechanically speaking, but the strong Dragon Ball/Avatar vibe is enough, I think, to make this character feel alive. Kamehamehas for the win. Plus, EK is not a bad...

The mob rule works fine, IMO.

Wow, hold on your horse! Getting to the good stuff after 35 sessions only?? You're supposed to suffer way longer than that!

Nope. I don't. We all have slightly, sometimes hugely different expectations and needs about this game. In fact, those MM24 monsters are veeeery near my sweet spot, much more so than any of the previous ones.

But dragons spit things, don't they? Isn't it kind of their thing? And spitting a ball of poisonous stuff is in fact kinda believable? Kinda physical, rather than magical? Some spiders and snakes do that in the real world! Anyhow, I doubt we'll agree on that and I respect your opinion, of...

I for one very much enjoyed The Monsters Know What They Are Doing, precisely because it helped me tremendously to DM a 5E game. And I remember, speaking about the new MM here and there, that one of my first comment was "we may not need Keith Amman anymore (but I'm sure he'll come up with other...

I don't see that as more or less magical than puffing a poisonous gas (or fire, again)?

I don't see the problem here. It's a miasma ball. Why should it differ from a fireball? Why is it more (or less) "realistic" or "believable "?

I am this guy. Though I did read the DMG, multiple times. In my book, streamlining this kind of things is 100 % beneficial to the game. I don't care for analyzing stat blocks and coming with supa dupa smart tactical moves, I'm not here for that. I'me here to help narrate a cool fight. Give me...

The Vast Oblivion in Out of the Abyss: vertical encounter against a crazy Beholder, with side tunnels, crossing bridges and webbings, yes please! Best yet: no map. It's all in your head. Xanathar's lair in Dragon Heist. Huge social potential, arenas, cool defense protocol with central control...

I couldn't agree less. National archetypes are a tired way to build and present a setting. There are many, mny more ways, starting with some which don't rely on any kind of pseudo-encyclopedic knowledge. The radiant citadel and its, well, radiant way to present multiple micro-settings, to start...

They very much do, at least insofar as they can measure this kind of thing (and they can better than us).

I understand the need (or the desire, rather) from someone to have some kind of hooks and strings baked in the setting to attach their characters to, but is a monocultural settlement the only way? Even if the setting's lore kinda prohibit it? Tieflings are supposed to appear in other species'...

In Rime of the Frost Maiden, there are two Goliath settlements (with an interesting feud between the two), a tiefling commune, and several isolated Dragonborn. (Three, IIRC: Torvus, an inn keeper and this guy counselor at the prison.)