Recent content by cbwjm

It's been mentioned in this thread, and I've mentioned it before in other threads, but one of the books I consider gold standard is the 3e forgotten realms book. As a setting guide it brilliant.

Classes and levels, d20 + X, the core sort if stuff. I consider essence20 a dnd variant, it was build along the same lines as 5e but altered to have skills that add to the d20 instead of attribute. Basically, if I can see dnd in there somewhere , I consider it a variant. Setting doesn't matter...

That rings a bell, it must have been that which I had a look at.

I think I recall something about a tomb raider rpg, did they have a quick start or basic rules intro document? I feel like I downloaded it and maybe had a quick flick through then never went back and looked at it. It's not a franchise that I think needs its own system, I could see a setting...

At one point I recall Matt Colville talking about doing this for draw steel, armour was effectively more hp. It was quite a while ago though and I haven't kept up with the game development so they may have gone in another direction. I don't think it is a bad idea, but I'm not sure how well it...

Judging from the groups that I'm involved in, many of whom love critical role, there doesn't seem to be much interest in Daggerheart, we're keeping with 5e and various dnd adjacent games (Pirate Borg this Sunday). Daggerheart has already done great and I expect that it's going to continue to...

Thread title kind of makes it sounds like he was being held hostage.

One of the things I came to dislike about the dndbeyond monsters was filtering them to what I owned became more and more onerous. Not sure if they have something now (or maybe I missed it back when I was running 5e) but they really needed a toggle for owned content rather than requiring us to...

Which is a shame, they had some cool orcs in one of the books that were based around their gods. One of them I think exploded in toxic goo which I remember using. Wouldn't have been as fun if it was just "Here's the profession, just add orc stats (I assume you still add orc stats)"

Once of the reasons why I like OSE, it is a tidied up set of books, with some updates like splitting race/class (while also keeping race as class options in the game) and they're releasing content for it that also makes some small updates to each class. ACKs does something similar, it has some...

I guess dolmenwood is overdue since it was expected in, I think, March (this might have been when they were expecting to have delivery to their warehouse) but thanks to Trump's tariffs necrotic gnome had to delay a little while they sorted things out, but it should be sent out in a few weeks so...

My first purchase for a ttrpg would have been the advanced fighting fantasy game. Id played heaps of the pick a path books so that was a natural progression. After that, it was the rules cyclopedia which introduced me to dnd.

Always keen for some dinosaur action movies. I had to make a cut to get it down to 3 so Superman would be my 4th. Otherwise, I'm looking forward to fantastic 4 and Naked Gun as my other 2. I have seen MI, it was alright but I hadn't seen the last 2 or 3 so didn't have some of the background...

Fair enough, I guess his humour isn't for everybody. I tend to quite enjoy his work and I'm hoping to see more of the Orville which I believe has been renewed for season 4. It was a great series that felt more star trek than star trek discovery.

You've kind of already said the big ones, I tend to expand goblinoids into beastmen which includes orcs, goblins, bugbears, ogres, and gnolls. Dinosaurs might be another. I don't use them much and some might be solitary but, thinking of raptors, some might be pack hunters. The leaf eaters would...