Edgar Ironpelt's latest activity

I believe this is a false dichotomy. A fantasy world can be weirdly different from the real world and yet still feel like a real place...

Play them through. Play it through. Either extend the session until the fight is over or stop mid-fight at the end of a round (and...

I play out every combat. The only reason I wouldn't would be if the players say or otherwise make it clear that they want to just...

Yes, they do. But without division it's impossible to talk about or even describe anything, because nothing is different from anything...

I didn't like the 3.0 version of Haste, but I don't like the 3.5 version either. As noted, the ability to cast two spells in a round is...

I prefer to play face to face and with as little technology at the table as possible. Online play is okay in a pinch, but I spend too...

Agreed on all counts. I would further add that I don't mind VTTs continuing to be a thing (I think they help a lot of people and are...

You appear to be ignoring player buy in as a factor. It is much harder to convince many players to take an easier, more powerful on the...

Now there's a twisted thought: What strange ways are used by the cultures in your game world to execute criminals? Now I have a world...

I tend to do more and more-exotic world-building for the settings of my read-only fiction than for the settings I run games in. In my...

Underrated: Text. I see lots of geeking out over movies, TV, comic books, and even audiobooks, but give me printed words to read.

For most things I find a binary success mechanic to be perfectly adequate. Either you pick the lock open, or you don't. You find the...

It's a fair cop, guv. Yeah, it's attar of roses or rose otto, but not otto of roses.

I think Keywords help in many areas, but it's too easy to fall into the Overused Condition.

And if creating undead requires black onyx gems, why aren't black onyx gems contraband - and why aren't there search & destroy campaigns...