Recent content by delericho

OD&D, B/X: Never played. BECMI: My introduction to the game. I liked the relative simplicity of it all, and I also liked the way that the boxes gradually built on one another, allowing the game to become more involved as we gained experience with it. (I should note that I never got to the "MI"...

I watched someone 'roll' an 18/18/18/17/14/10 using 4d6 drop lowest. The reason I say 'roll' is that the 17 was followed by the 18s in sequence, and the player didn't exactly lift the dice very far each time. So it wasn't so much a roll as a drop. Additionally, despite it being a 3e game, the DM...

One of the topics I wished they'd addressed in the DMG was the number of encounters required to level up by level (breaking down and explaining the chart linked from the OP). From there, they could easily have gone into a discussion about how to easily speed up/slow down advancement to suit the...

Sure, but I can counter that by just waiting a while. To be honest, for most shows I prefer to do that anyway - bank them up and then binge. One of these days they may choose to build a timer into the account - once you've watched episode 1 you need to wait a week before you can watch episode...

The time loop aspect is an ongoing plot point in my current Ravenloft campaign, and it's working well. However, the endgame will absolutely be that if the PCs slay the darklord (Adam, in this case) then they will have broken the loop and freed the land. That ending of "Curse of Strahd", where...

Elmore for me. Also, I hadn't realised that Jaquays was an artist was well as writer. She's even more talented than I thought.

In the UK we're still in the lucky position that there are only a handful of services needed to get "everything". Though I suspect that that is liable to change over the next couple of years as more and more providers want a slice of the streaming pie. My inclination, if and when that happens...

While the problem isn't as bad in 5e (or, previously, in 3e), it's not non-existent. Later monster designs are, unsurprisingly, better than the earlier ones. (Of course, it's possible that my opinion is exacerbated by having spent a year running "Storm King's Thunder". Giants are a particular...

The PHBR series was great. Though part of me wishes they'd had a chance to "loop back" through the earlier ones - after Bard they seemed to go on a run of very strong entries that left the earlier ones looking poor by comparison. The one that saw most use at our table was Priests, but that was...

Speaking for myself, I'd be happy to see a somewhat-increased cadence - more books means more chance of them producing books that I want to see. That said, I'm more or less done with buying 5e books now, so the chances are fairly low. (I enjoyed "Rime of the Icemaiden", but have very limited...

Agreed. One of the problems in pretty much every edition after the first is that the first MM is expected to include all the iconic monsters, and yet monster design tends to improve over time. This means that, a few years in, the iconic monsters are almost inevitably the least interesting...

Sounds good. The worst thing about it is that I could have really used it about eighteen months ago.

We always used proficiencies (weapon and non-weapon), individual initiative, and weapon speed adjustments to initiative. To be honest, I'd forgotten those latter two were even optional!

It wouldn't. D&D gained traction by "borrowing" liberally from the big fantasy IPs of the time, and when hit with a C&D was able to republish with the serial numbers filed off (hobbits became halflings, etc). The IP landscape today is rather different, such that the equivalent game would be...

I'd be happy to play any, but would probably go for Eberron as my preference. That said, with the right group of players I would leap on a Drow campaign.