Recent content by Crimson Longinus

I am genuinely interested, could you show some examples of such tables and tell how you use them?

I did not experience such.

Sure, but then it will basically be the same thing than the short sword anyway.

But how does this in practice work? Like you must think the possibility of this sort of thing happening even to randomise it. And there are nigh infinite number of unlikely things that could happen, but are very unlikely to. You cannot in practice be randomising all of them constantly. To me...

It is very easy to fix. Just delete rapiers.

I don't think sandbox needs to be static. Interesting events can still happen, and it is perfectly fine for the GM just to decide that some of them happen when the PCs are around. Like would the sort of situation like I described, a wild monster breaking loose from animal handler in a city just...

But is this realistic? Is there interesting adventure worthy stuff all around all the time in the real world? I don't think so. Lives of PCs in D&D are far more filled with adventure than any person's in the real world. And similarly if all these interesting events happened at equal frequency to...

It is not about any particular story or about forcing outcomes, it is about making the stuff around the PCs more full of potential for interesting than is strictly speaking realistically plausible. I don't know about you, but I want interesting stuff to happen in my games most of the time, and...

I have hard time believing that a game where everything is prepped or even randomised will be functional. Like a lot of things can be, but I can't imagine that everything could, nor I think it is practical. Like do you have a random chart for "interesting thing that could happen when people go...

Like others have said, pure quantum ogre and similar situations are not really railroading in any meaningful sense. Players never made an informed decision in the first place, just a blind choice, so no agency was overridden. Now if the whole world works like this, and there is no information to...

To be fair, this might tell more about the quality of construction rather than the power of the weapon. This was an American house, right? I've seen people punch holes into walls of those with bare hands.

Did they? Because I think including one was a mistake. It allows dex to completely supplant strength for many builds, without any significant drawbacks. It also bugs me a lot that fighting with two rapiers is an optimal build, as that just seems silly.

Well, a lot of the superhero genre overall certainly feels that way. 🤷

No, sorry, this is just nonsense. The players have no information of the dragon attack, thus they cannot make choices for preparing to it, and the GM would ask "Will you do anything before the nightfall?" just the same if there was not a dragon attack. The players have opportunity to state...

Well, apparently unless you just sit silently eight hours at the table whilst the characters sleep that is railroading!