Edgar Ironpelt's latest activity

That's always the problem; in a lot of cases, you actually decrease your survival chance by retreating in a lot of games, because its...

The "Benevolent GM Stance" sounds like the equivalent to the sort of read-only fiction "where the author is on the protagonist's side."

While sleeping on this I realise we do have the firefighter stance. That is most recognisable when I think we are on the edge of TPKs. I...

I'm not a fan of low ability scores for PCs in general. My view is that PCs are inherently Superior, and their ability scores ought to...

I do homebrew settings, and creating cosmologies is an essential part of that. Not so much for my players (or my readers, in the case of...

I was never a big fan of psi powers in D&D. The only way I'd be happy with psi powers in a game I ran or played in would be if they...

Rogue can't take subclass at first and the scout discourages you from picking woodsy skills before taking it. Also, there's no budget...

I want rules that deal with the issue of character ability being different from player ability. This sometimes produces conflicts...

I go for small, lair-like dungeons that are part of the surface ecosystem, rather than dungeons that are deep and isolated enough to...

True. I've seen both sorts of advancement in the same game, especially in the Old Days. A pattern I often saw was rapid leveling up...

Or tone down the rapid advancement.

I'd rather just houserule in training time.

About right here. If you have a solid opaque blindfold on, then you would have to at least use an object interaction to remove it in...

I have a TableSmith table that produces gem results that look like the following: A large yellow faceted stone (citrine) of superior...

Rich by the standard of most people in the settings you prefer. Those settings are not the only possible ones. People living at the...