Distracted DM's latest activity

So, Matt Colville released a video about community building recently. I like Matt, he's a smart guy and I almost always learn something...

I had 4/5 pcs being able to cast it. CR13 with crappy wisdom save may as well have been CR 0. Wall of Fire approach/flee spam...

I'm sure there are other ways to address it, but I think PF2e addressed it well in their own way- but importantly, I have little...

why saves? one thing that I found very fun in 4E was, I ATTACK you with fireball, not waiting for DM to roll 11 saves.

any rate of failure is bad. casters feel bad when their precious spell slots do absolutely nothing after target makes their save...

Its a consequence of crap saves combined with buckets of hp.

there should be more focus on spells that hinder actions or make them more difficult than just removing some one from combat. it should...

I think the main problem I have with Legendary Resistance is that it doesn't scale to the party. Some parties have multiple characters...

It's been cast a few times, but only in the A5E version where it gets a buff because it counts as a Haven; havens are required to get...

The spell list -really- needs to have a lot of the tradition cut out of it... but. I don't think control spells are the real issue...

I was going to comment about this. 5e's Sleep was excellent design, and it bothered me that it wasn't used more. I was pretty bummed...

Check out A5E 😅 in combat, they can be scarier than the casters.

Finally getting moved in. The organization is a loooong process. I should have done a much better job packing. Especially the minis...

Seeing other folks shelves makes me feel better about my own crazy collection 😅 I'm not alone..

This is amazing! Now I have something to show my wife when she says I have more gaming books than anybody. So beautiful.