Edgar Ironpelt's latest activity

I'm less concerned with the level of fantasy and more concerned about internal-consistency and in-world plausibility. By default, I...

That's a point of difference between us. For me, a major reason to have fantastic elements is to cater to the escapist fantasy of a more...

What I prefer is what I call "grounded weirdness." There are weird and fantastic things, but I try to present them as believable part of...

I like it as fantastical as possible.....except for how people act. I can have a hard time comprehending real human behavior, so I need...

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...