Recent content by der_kluge

I was thinking about this today.... Excuse me while I wax philosophical. On Saturday, I played in our usual Shadowdark game. The GM is good, the game is fun, but as usual, the combats are usually kind of easy. This seems to be a failing on the GM's part - I think he has a general tendency to...

The sort of baffling thing about SD is it's almost obsessive focus on torches and torch timers. But Ravenloft isn't a dungeon-crawl setting. So, I just ignore all that. Also, SD is purely based around a "dark ages" aesthetic - weapons and armor and tech level. Given that I've got things like...

The game on tap this week was "House of Lament" from the VRgtR book. So, it's the only 5e module I'm planning on running. I had read a review of someone that played it who said their group took 3 sessions to complete it ("because they were completionists"), and I was certain this might be a...

Yesterday I did another double-header (resulting in a 6-hour session!). Sometimes it can be hard to gauge these kinds of things. I ran "Invisible Stalker" (Dungeon #55). This is a module I've ran a few times before, so I was pretty familiar with it. The main thing was that I needed to stat out...

Thread necromancy time! (appropriate for Ravenloft) Time for an update! My original Ravenloft campaign kind of got derailed since a lot of my players decided it was a good time to bow out of gaming. Still not entirely sure why. Anyway, I met up with some other folks who game (I now game 4 days a...

FYI, I moderate a Wilderlands of High Fantasy fan group over on Facebook. We're all watching this thread with bated breath. :) Wilderlands of High Fantasy | Facebook I would just add that GG did a KS for Caverns of Thracia. I backed that, and have all the PDFs for (of which there were many)...

Necromancer Games' Tombs of Abysthor (heavily modified) I'm also a fan of some obscure Dungeon modules that I've used a few times: "Invisible Stalker" - really just an encounter, but with the right villain, can last an entire session. (also fairly heavily modified) "Nightshade" - again fairly...

I certainly love seeing 3rd party publishers do well, but am I alone in wondering what all the fuss is about with Shadowdark? I looked at it a while back when I was looking for an alternative RPG for a Ravenloft campaign I was going to run, and all the SD fanboys couldn't resist fawning over it...

Some good ideas in here. I might steal a few of these. What I have is pretty similar, but I like some of your stuff around reduced healing factor, and adding exhaustion levels.

10 years is an impressive time! I actually finished a campaign of my own a few years ago. I was 17 months of bi-weekly play at 4 sessions. So, about 136 total hours. They got to level 13. I designed that campaign to kind of wrap up around 12th level. In the end, they kept basically going...

I found a pretty good one on Reddit. I use some houserules that basically change how hp at 0 work. I didn't like death saves. So instead, when you hit 0, you are conscious, but go prone, and suffer a lingering injury. You can choose from a limited number of options like disengaging, drinking...

Oh yea, it's not FR-specific at all. I was mainly just curious, really.

Obviously ChatGPT isn't the final arbiter of such things, but this echoes what my assumptions on the matter already were.

Are there unofficial Forgotten Realms novels??

If I wanted to write a novel, what are the license legalities involved? I suppose there's some prestige associated with publishing a "Forgotten Realms" novel, but I would imagine such a thing would have to be officially licensed, yea?