Edgar Ironpelt's latest activity

I’d rather this concept be stretched to all classes as MAD instead of SAD.

I'm satisfied with how I handle gems as a GM, harking back to this recent thread. But I've been wrestling with handling jewelry and...

Want! EDIT: Ordered!

I'm running 3.5e, and I let rangers take a feat instead of an animal companion. In fact, in my Brotherhood of Rangers game (where all...

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.