Recent content by cthulhu42

I don't know that we'll ever truly leave D&D behind, but in the roughly 20 years my group has been gaming together we've dabbled in a whole slew of other games. Some lasted, most didn't. The only game that's come close to straining our loyalty is Blades in the Dark. I've been running a Blades...

My high level group is currently embarking on a mission to assassinate the arch devil, Geryon. They are making their way through Coldsteel castle and dealing with his minions, most of whom are ice devils. As they clear out their lairs I'm having a bit of trouble imagining what sort of things...

Awhile ago I started a post concerning how an item or feat that granted the ability to concentrate on a second concentration spell would affect the game. Ultimately I decided to toss one into my high level game just to kind of see what happens. I decided on a ring. I didn't get too fancy, it...

I was recently reading some older threads, one of which was Avalongod's Wizarding 101 guide in which he laments the fact that a handful of spells either feel like they should have been rituals, or would have been far more useful (and see far more use) had they been rituals. I agree with most...

I'm guessing this is well covered territory, but here goes anyway... Would a feat or item allowing the addition of one more concentration spell be game breaking? The feat might allow one additional concentration spell for every time the PC took the feat. The item (a nice ring perhaps) would...

I've been a little surprised to not see more chatter about Blades In The Dark on these forums, so I figured I'd get the ball rolling. I bought Blades after giving Dungeon World a try and following up on some other Powered By The Apocalypse material. After watching some actual play on youtube I...

After stumbling across a few references to Dungeon World on the web I was intrigued and decided to give it a shot. The book is cheap, and there's not a lot of other stuff needed, so why not? After reading the book I was convinced that it had been an excellent purchase. So far I've got one DW...

I've been using the house rule whereby whenever a character goes to zero hit points and gets back up again he/she gains a level of exhaustion. I like it because it makes going to to zero suck quite a bit and have consequences. However, taking a whole day to get rid of a level of exhaustion...

I don't remember 3.5 having save every turn spells, but it's been probably ten years since my last 3.5 game, so I'll take your word for it.

I'm currently running a module wherein one of the encounters is with a pair of giants in a torture chamber. There's an iron maiden and a well in the chamber. The entry for the encounter states that the giants will attempt to grapple their enemies and either chuck them into the iron maiden...

It might just boil down to feel. A high level 3.5 wizard felt epic! A high level 5e wizard is a bad ass, to be sure, and is absolutely worth playing, but not in the same league as his 3.5 counterpart. And that's not a bad thing in the context of this edition. As many have already said, the...

Against The Giants: Campaign Journal This journal is not really meant to be a story hour, but it didn't seem to fit on the main 5E board, so I asked that it be ported over here. If I were to write out my current campaign as a story hour I'd start from the beginning and write it out in a much...

One of my players, a 13th level wizard, has just had his spellbook stolen. It's a long story and I won't bore you with the details. Suffice to say, the thief has more use for gold than the book, and is willing to ransom it back to the wizard. I'm wondering how much he should ask for. I...

The party I'm currently DMing has recently procured the services of an elvish Knight (MM 347) who has pledged her sword to them for one year. I'm awarding her a portion of XP and I'm thinking, for simplicity sake, to have her level up whenever the party levels up, but I'm not sure what that...

I'd like to create a spell that locks down a dead creature's soul, making it incapable of being resurrected. I think the basic spell description would look something like this: Once cast upon the body of a deceased creature, that creature's soul becomes trapped; out of reach of any resurrection...