Recent content by cbwjm

It has a good shelf life, but you need to remember to refrigerate once opened.

Maybe I was doing it right when I was younger and something else confused the issue.

It's not that difficult, but it's assuming I'm correct with how to do it, maybe it was explained in a sage archived column. Basically it doesn't matter when each class levels, you roll 1d10+4 and divided that by 2 when the fighter side levels, then after gaining the xp for the wizard side you...

This is actually something I find quite interesting, the import/export of stories. I did my honours disstertation on ancient Egyptian folktales one of which (maybe more, it was a long time ago that I was writing this) we know was imported from the near east and adapted to Egyptian mythology...

I was reading the yak men description, they have a whole mountain kingdom and send spies into the zakharan cities using a magic jar ability to take over people. Reading about them, I can see a campaign or set of adventures stopping them from advancing their plots. There's so many threads of...

That'd be cool, I like taking published adventures and converting them into campaign, I did a mini campaign woth the thunder rift modules. I've mostly been reading the campaign guides for Al-Qadum but will be reading through the adventures as well. Might even be able to convince some friends to...

With the GM's sale on at the moment I decided to complete my collection of Al-Qadim PDFs from the DMs Guild. I never actually got to play this setting, but I absolutely love it. Making a setting where genies are all over the place, unique types of wizards with secret organisations (must be hard...

I remember being confused by the constitution bonus for multiclass warriors, I don't I think at the time we weren't doing it right, we just added the best bonus to the final result (normally the first level you gain hit points so a fighter/thief would gain the full bonus when they hit level 2 as...

I guess all of these people had to start somewhere, I think I just have a set decade where I know them from and so get surprised when I see them (or hear about them being in) something from before that time.

Wait, what? Liam Neeson was in Krull?! I guess I haven't seen the movie since the 80s/90s so there's no reason I should remember, but I had no idea.

Sometimes, the faeries might be kind and invite you to stay for a celebration and when you return, you discover what felt like 2 days ends up being 2 centuries and everyone you know is dead, or you die as soon as return to the mortal world. In one story a king and and his retinue visit a fairy...

After rewatching Jurrassic Park, I ended up watching the rest of the series, moving through Jurassic World all the way up to Rebirth. Then I resubbed to netflix because I discovered there were 3 whole seasons of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory that I had missed out on. That series was great, filled...

I think it might be different in 2e, but looking at raise dead and resurrection in 1e, looks like the latter doesn't work on elves either.

The cat fae has a fun bit with its language, regular cats can understand and speak it and they are quite surprised when they find out. That's one of those small details which makes the game fun.

Dolmenwood sounds very whimsical with fairies and such and I guess a lot of it could play like that, but as I read through the campaign book, I realised just how dark the setting is. It should be easy enough to run in other systems, especially if you don't worry too much about the classes...