Recent content by cbwjm

The answer is no, but also yes. Most of the time I think sticking with single class works best but sometimes adding a second class can help realise a character concept. I ran a half orc wizard who had 1 level of barbarian to account for his upbringi g, worked out to be quite fun being able to...

I forgot the watcher was originally involved, I did wonder if the ultimate nullifier would make an appearance though. I also found it to be an enjoyable movie, one of the better of the recent marvel movies.

Might be cool to see the Masters of the Universe translated to DnD, though I wonder if that would instead be given to Renegade games to make a setting.

One thing I thought about ages ago but never implemented was having spell slots level up. Meaning at a certain level, all of your 1st-level spell slots become 2nd level spell slots and some level after that, they become 3rd-level spell slots so that at caster level 11 (as an example) you might...

I've bought some PDFs of old thunder rift modules that I had when I first started playing that I knew full well that I'd never run in BECMI. Adapted them to 5e and ran them for my friends during the dark times of 2020-2022.

We used the bonus action potion fairly early on. In regard to healing potions, it was a bonus action to drink it yourself, an action to give it to a downed comrade. In another campaign, not sure if this was a house rule or one picked up from 5.5 or another game, but if you drank a healing...

It's been a while since I wrote the fireball analysis (and I didn't have the math know-how to get the exact odds), but I think the ogre in 2e had a saving throw of 16 which would make it a 25% chance to save, still close to the final result but a little closer to that coin flip.

This is how I do it in BG3, I don't bother with a rogue, just use guidance and a high dex score then burn a few inspiration points as needed.

I compare fireball against ogres to show how powerful it is, basically, how good is a 5th level wizard's fireball against a band of ogres. I wrote the following ages ago but never posted it. Fireball by the editions Basic. A fireball back in BECMI could deal up to 20 dice of damage, that is...

Maybe, but perception often still seems to take place of survival, often it's only a single roll so as soon as you slot the tracks, you're off.

I'm not sure exactly where I'd place the skills, but ones I'd rate near the top based on games I've played are athletics, arcana, perception, persuasion. I've often wanted to add medicine or animal handling to a character but they'll often end up being cut if I have other skills I feel take...

I find it can be good as a finisher when you really need to do damage without worrying about missing. They should probably up the damage to d6+1 though.

I think that can be a good way to do it, makes the survival trained character feel like it's more worthwhile. I often don't call for a roll if it is something a PC is trained in, I think it comes from me beginning in older editions whereas newer DMs will rely a lot more on calling for rolls.

Ithibk the tracking element also falls prey to the overuse of perception. DMs will often call for that instead of survival to see if you spot the tracks.

Might as well put investigation at the bottom since every DM seems to forget about it and call for a perception check instead.