Recent content by DerekSTheRed

I really liked the Living Grayhawk era of Organized Play. The most interesting part was dividing up specific countries in Grayhawk and mapping them to real world regions. The regionality gave the players ownership of the story. And since Grayhawk was basically a sandbox for players while all the...

During 2020 I stopped visiting my FLGS to buy hardback D&D books and started buying them on D&D Beyond instead. The option to buy a la cart is a nice way to avoid double purchasing stuff like this. If a particular book is especially full of duplicate I can just buy the new stuff a la cart and...

With all the Dragon UA stuff, Council of Wyrms seems more likely than usual. I would love an updated Greyhawk Gazetteer and if you it gets tied in with Organized Play you could even call it a Living Greyhawk Gazetteer.

Wow I haven't thought about this thread in a while. I tried back in the day to create Birthright stuff for 4E but got frustrated with all the work needed to create a whole new sub-class. Everyone here kept saying to use Themes and I probably should have listened.

With pregen PCs that are all treants.

That was my thought as well. When Rich Baker did his Q&A for enworld he said as much.

That was my thought as well. When Rich Baker did his Q&A for enworld he said as much.

The idea of an RPG adventure without loss aversion immediately brought to mind a rival Adventuring Group trying to get the same treasure. I got the idea from an Eberron module that was inspired by Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indy was competing with Belloc for the Ark. Similar adventures that...

My current campaign is set in Birthright and has a bunch of political intrigue type elements but is still pretty standard D&D fare because that's what my players want. Here's how I sneak in some intrigue into my campaign. I recommend creating a flow chart for the adventure and each box is an...

I would say Magic and Technology could have parallels but we shouldn't assume that's always the case. For example, pumping out wands was part of the Eberron's Last War. The Last War was kind of a Magic equivalent to WWI and included lightning rails to move troops to the front lines similar to...

I'm from Texas so I immediately get the analogies here. I'm guessing some of the international readers won't. I tend to think the individualism style is more common since damage is fun and everyone sharing in the damage helps group dynamics. The whole style of keep the bad guys off the mage so...

I played a halfling monk of 4 elements in Horde of the Dragon Queen. The character worked well although I didn't get to cast as often as I would like. I ended up using shortbow a lot which led to less martial arts bonus attacks. Sent from my iPhone using EN World

That is indeed tedious. Which is is why I don't consider it a mini-game like spell casters. Sent from my iPhone using EN World mobile app

Sounds like the beginnings of a 5E port of Council of Wyrms. Sent from my iPhone using EN World

I've come to the conclusion that characters that are built around ranged weapons are boring. Being at range will lead to less attacks targeting the character and therefore less suspense. Magic users have a resource management mini-game to balance when choosing which spell. But a bow character...