Recent content by el-remmen

Personally, I think the best way I for PCs to know to look for/find secret doors is to have enemies (or allies) use them when appropriate.

There is this phenomenon I have noticed on these boards (and elsewhere), that I call "Argument as Agreement," in which someone rhetorically frames their agreement as an argument. I am not saying you are doing this (I have not seen enough of your posts to say you), but your response to Umbran did...

So with the caveat that these were made for homebrew 5E ruleset that merges wizard and sorcerer as subclasses of a Mage class and that shrinks everything to 10 levels, here they are (followed by the draft version of guidance for using them).

I have to admit that as much as I love it, there is something to this. I am joining a new game and mentioned to the (new) DM* that one of my character ideas was a Sorcerer Gnome who'd choose wild magic, he replied that someone else was thinking of making one, but he had no problem with me making...

That’s exactly how my custom wild magic tables work. I can post them here if folks are interested.

I am a big fan, esp. since I am a fan of magic with mishaps and consequences (and design most magical items in my games to have a drawback). In my VF5E homebrew rule set, the sorcerer (which, like wizard, is a subclass of Mage) is essentially just a wild mage - and I created 8 d30 tables to...

Imagine you had two powers: 1. To post in a thread and be totally ignored 2. To post in a thread and it dies within 1d4 more posts But you have no control over which power manifests when you post. . .

Cool project! I am interested in all kinds of D&D/gaming DIY projects. I will follow closely. One approach others may find useful is a hybrid. I bought a huge dining table at a thrift store for $40. It was dinged up but very sturdy. The dimensions are 44” x 66” but it has two leaves that can...

Gifts for my players found and the Tabaxi Druid is especially gonna love those moonbeam cat dice! Thanks!

I don’t think you are wrong but one big difference between learning when we were 10 and learning when you are an adult, is that back then we had (seemingly) endless time, while now all those screw ups and bummers might feel like wasted time to folks (whether or not it actually is). But for me...

This thread has got me thinking about the demographics of the different groups I’ve been in (or ran for) since 2000. 3E (group 1) Dwarf Human Human Human (replaced by half-orc) Human (replaced by human and then Elf) Human Human 3E (group 2) Human Human Human Human Gnome 3E (group 3) 6 Humans...

I forgot to mention that when prepping 10 foot square maps for Owlbear Rodeo, I pop the map into photoshop and erase the interior grid and then apply a new 5 foot box scale when i upload the map to OBR. (When possible. Some maps are too detailed or crowded for that to work)

Yeah. I got a pad of 14 x 17 inch graph paper (quarter inch boxes) for redrawing maps for this reason.

I hate 10 foot scale dungeon maps and always redraw them at 5 feet, so that it will be easier to produce portions of it on the fly using a wet erase battle mat. (Though I understand why 10 foot squares makes the most sense for print products given space limitations) My groups have used 5 foot...

TFW you can tell the person you have ignore that everyone is responding to is complaining about the ignore feature.