Recent content by Blackbrrd

Yeah. To get a bit of consistency, I let players rolling a total of 69 or lower to re-roll. Only 2 out of 6 characters needed a re-roll. Among the 6 characters we have one 18, one 17 and many 16's. I let the player roll stats, then you can swap two scores. I allowed two players to do two swaps.

Interesting, so my feeling that you are never at 70% is correct, except if you are facing easy challenges. Most of the "real" dangers are those that are above your level. Bosses etc, then you are often below the 65% mark. In Dragonbane you start out at 70% for your top skills if you have 16+ in...

Nah, their good skills start at 14, so those only have a 25% chance of success for leveling them. It is a bargain they would take any day. The player probably should have selected some of his bad skills as well, not just the ones with 10, 12 or 14 in them. If the same character gets no advances...

And that is the reason I switched to Dragonbane from 5e (after playing basic D&D, AD&D 2nd ed, D&D 3.0, D&D 3.5, D&D 4 and D&D 5). Another GM has held some Call of Cthulu games and I liked the Basic Role Playing roots of it. The same as Dragonbane. There is less focus on character stats in...

This was a straight up fight, so the character shined. In other situations other characters will shine. The characters biggest weakness is bane on Evade and an Evade of 10. Being hit by a giant for 4d10 (avg 22) isn't much fun. Even with the armor that is 14 damage. The most broken thing is of...

I ran my first session with custom-made characters yesterday. 6 players + me as a GM. Worked out really well. People were not studying their character sheets while we played but engaging in the game. Ran one combat with 6 PCs and 7 NPCs. It went really fast, ending in the second round after like...

I have run two sessions. The first one completed "The sinking tower" module, the second one nearly finished the "Riddermound" module. Both are freely available. My takeaway is that the combat is more interactive than D&D combat. I like that you can parry, evade or attack with your action, not...

Yeah, it can probably sell well, especially with a show like Stranger Things basically being a promotion for it. ;)

I am one of those who wanted smaller adventures. But yeah, I was not hoping for a re-hash of old ideas. It makes reading the adventures more work than pleasure, and it's less likely that I will buy them. I was hoping for something more modern, like Reavers of Harkenworld, which I think is the...

If you are hidden, then you have surprised everyone and the only one who can act in the first round.

The title really doesn't say much, neither does your post. Is there a question there?

There is one subscription for Pathfinder and one for D&D 5e

That's a really good errata in my opinion. They only clarified what they ment by the initial text, but didn't state explicitly. Personally, I am treating the last seen location as a unhideable location. This makes the PC's in my game usually move around a little and makes a whole lot more...

So, you think that 7 options of variants of "yes, it's a problem" and 1 "not a big problem" options is a balanced poll? It would be completely logical to have a another "Not a problem" option as well. It wouldn't coincide with your opinion on the matter, but that's not the point of a poll is it...

My interpretation of this: "the extra damage is 2d8 for a 1st-level spell slot, plus 1d8 for each spell level higher than 1st, to a maximum of 5d8." Is that the maximum relates to the extra for spending higher level spell slots. In other words 2d8+5d8 maxiumum (from a 6th, 7th, 8th or 9th level...