Recent content by Bolongo

A military cruiser.

It's not so much an adventure as a detailed description of a ship type, with a couple pages of suggestions for adventures you might set there.

Interesting collar on that wizard. As far as I can tell, it's supported by his headpiece, 'cause he has no shirt on.

It seems totally necessary if you trust the reviews of 2024. Those I've seen who have really dug into it, and not just done a flip-through, agree that PCs have gotten some power creep, and that monsters hit harder to compensate.

Funny, I do the exact opposite. :cool: If I see "5e" or "OSR" I mostly nope right out.

NM

The first issue I bought, mainly for the RQ scenario.

You have to "make an attack". Which I assume means to use some ability classified as an attack, thus not just a friendly tap on the shoulder. But sure, personally I would rule you could use it that way if you thought it was worth it.

Yes. It's in the preview page.

You mean "Arden". C&S has a very different vibe from Arduin. Though bizarrely enough, the dinosaur thing is true. "Saurians" was a sourcebook featuring dinosaur-riding lizardfolk (did GW nick the idea from here?). How that was supposed to integrate with the assumed realistic-apart-from-magic...

Ummm, my definition of a "solo" monster is just that it's by itself in a specific combat encounter. Not that it's necessarily a hermit living all by itself in the wilderness. Most of the solo encounters I've seen in published form have been inside dungeons.

Again, I was just going by the situation described by the poster who thought (correctly) that a single Vampire Spawn was too weak. Now, if I was designing a location with a Mind Flayer in it, there would be layers of defenses, patrols, alarms and whatnot. If your rogue could sneak by all that...

I was assuming the scenario the OP described: 3 characters walk into a dark room. In this situation, the Mind Flayer of course knows they're coming, it has good scores in both Perception and Stealth, so it's hovering up in the darkness out of melee reach and will Mind Blast them before they can...

CR has never been as straightforward as that. I have no idea why they chose to do it this way, but CR has always been something that requires byzantine calculation, with no obvious correlation to PC power. But Mike Shea (Sly Flourish) does have a relatively simple guideline that you can...

OK, so it's all about the extremes then. My first thought when someone says "dramatic coherence" is not "strict adherence to a plot", but rather "this character's behaviour makes sense, given previously established facts." I guess your interpretation depends on the state of the debate around you...