Recent content by el-remmen

https://how-i-run-it.com/dragon-mag-monday-index/ I haven't posted one in a while, but am working on #113 currently.

For me it is an ongoing consideration that I make choices about from the very inception (dragons or giants or flumphs or demons or nilbogs might be a central part of what sets the setting apart), but continue to make those choices as the world grows and develops through play, esp. since I tend...

I never had this issue, but I often admired its cover, as it was often used in later issues to advertise ordering back issues. My own review of Dragon of this era (which really doesn't get going until #102 as I am using my own collection as the basis for reviewing) is repeatedly very critical...

I like to go back and read old threads I started or remember contributing to quite a bit and see where my views (and others' views) were at that time, and as I way to try to avoid repeating myself (and noticing how often others repeat themselves). And when I do that I inevitable come across...

Here’s something that just popped in my head based on reading some threads. It is something I used to tell my college writing students. Avoid using “most” as in “most people” unless you have some credible evidence/source that clearly demonstrates a majority of whoever you are talking about...

It has been hard to come to accept that no one’s opinion regarding just about anything is remotely interesting. Including my own. But it’s true.

I can’t even remember if I watched the third season. I may not have finished the second.

I have found that my most successful campaigns (and I measure success based on how long it lasts and how much fun we have) are one where there has been a focus on a distinct area within a larger and more diverse setting context. My “Out of the Frying Pan” 3e campaign took just over 5 years and...

Session #64 of “Revenants in Saltmarsh” (played yesterday) Quick recap After defeating the wight, Elemenger, and his zombies minions, the party looted their holes and then continued along the treacherous rocky bank of the Willidiri stream. After being attacked by animated skeletons, their guide...

As far as so-called meta-gaming monster knowledge goes I follow these simple steps: 1. Assume good faith from players (and probably don’t play with folks for whom you simply cannot assume good faith). 2. Let the individual player decide how much of the “classic monster knowledge” their...

would "everything is a lot" have been a better use of italics? Or, "everything is a lot?" Or maybe staccato emphasis (aka Shatnerian), "Every. Thing. Is. A. Lot."

Sometimes everything feels like a lot. And then you stop and think, wait. . . everything is a lot.

I haven’t gone to a public gaming con since GEN CON in 2007. I did go to Steel City Con in 2019 (mostly comics, cosplay, and celebrity meet and greets) and did one day of NY Comic Con in 2017 (never again). I was hoping to make it to Pittsburgh Gaming Expo this October but when i went to...

This is the way.

I have admittedly not read every single post in this thread very closely, but I did go back and reread the OP and have to wonder when a warlock pact "being a part of the actual fiction of the game" became equated with taking away their powers?