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...

Some really great ideas here. Thank!

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...

Honestly, One Note is the single greatest leap forward in my organizational life. It's free, it's easy, it is the one bit of tech I cannot do without.

The Final Word make wonderful NPC's. My players are old salt D&D players who have faced the worst of what that game has to offer, and yet, they are genuinely spooked by Cariless Firm! Firm hasn't even made an appearance for several sessions, but the crew still recall his dead, shark eyes and...

As fate would have it one of my players was sick tonight so we couldn't play D&D. Partially inspired by the resurrection of this thread, I opted to run our Blades game. One of the nice things about Blades is that it lends itself very well to sessions where not everyone is able to make it. Since...

It's so good to see this post resurrected! I hope to chime in at length when I get a minute to do so. Right now my group is taking a break from BitD to get back to our high level D&D game, but I'm hoping to get back to it in a month or two. I will say that our experience was very similar to...

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...

Blades In The Dark would be my bet. I'm a big fan of Penny Dreadful and BitD is as close as I've come to the show with an RPG. Might work straight out of the box, or with minimal hacking.

So you're advice for new DMs is to not play D&D. Awesome. For those new DMs that do want to play D&D, establishing a moral baseline can be hugely helpful. Many young players see D&D as an outlet for immature murder fantasies, or a way to be destructive with no real world consequences. The...

Because rpg's aren't all about power. People play them for all sorts of different reasons. Most people tend to have an archetype they gravitate toward. I've been playing since 1983 and I've never played a cleric. You could make cleric's the most powerful class in the game and I'd still have no...

Could you give some examples of why you feel this way? I'm not saying you're wrong, just interested in your POV. I will say that I played many earlier editions of D&D where casters could stack spells to their hearts content and I never thought of it as devastating. The main issue was usually...

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...

Limit alignments in your first few games to variations on GOOD. Seriously.