Recent content by Festivus

I do a roll test at the start of a session but generally put the extra dice away for the game time. I also pre-roll almost everything for my turn, so if I know I am going to make an attack, I have my attack roll made and added up so I can just announce "Does 25 hit his AC?". Since I already...

Heh, I even posted in that thread! Oh boy, bad memory :)

I spotted these at the drug store a few weeks back and picked them up mainly for my kids, who always seem to leave the caps off the markers, so that when I go to use them they are dried out and useless. I decided to give them a try on my gaming surfaces (Flip Mats) to see how they worked out...

I just wanted to pop in and talk for a moment about transformations. Twelve months ago, our meetup was a very different animal, while still wildly popular in our area, it was almost entirely driven by Living Forgotten Realms, almost to the exclusion of other games. After some complaints came...

Cards are not required to play LFR, but as a judge you must allow them to be used if presented for play. I never said they were required to play, only that they be accepted.

WoTC still requires things of the campaign, fortune cards must be accepted for example. RPGA isn't going away, it and DCI are being folded into Wizards Play Network. Encounters still asks for RPGA/DCI/WPN numbers, as does LFR... for public play only. Home play no longer needs to be reported...

The Gel cube is used to great effect in a Paizo adventure (I think it's the Game Mastery D1 Crown of the Kobold King adventure). Spoiler... The PC's hear of a song of a dwarven adventurer ghost that carries a shining axe. Later in the adventure, as they are travelling down the hall, they see...

It probably would, depending on the level of the monster. I think things like this are fun in stories. I'd say try it and if it seems too unbalancing, have the monster have some problem that causes it to be less effective. What you don't want is the companion to outshine the party.

Well... I gave them a skill challenge to figure out how to control the Iron Defender and put it into various modes (defend me, guard area, detection mode). They had limited control over the beast and repair was tricky to do as well. Minor action burned to instruct it with a control box if I...

I really liked the compiled issues, because I could save them to my laptop and read them on my van ride. But since the quality went downhill, it really doesn't bother me that they don't have compiled issues, because I am no longer a subscriber partly, and because I hadn't bothered the last few...

Happened last week. One player said something (apparently an insult, I didn't hear it so I have no idea), and the other player called him out on it. I asked them to take the argument away from the table, but the person refused. When I tried to explain that we were here to play a game, I was...

All of the following is my opinion. I play both 4E and Pathfinder, I only DM 4E now, but I DMed a campaign from 1-20 in 3.5. If you disliked 3.5, Pathfinder is more of it. Yes, some rules are streamlined but the minutia is all still there as well as the DM workload for prep time. Honestly...

So, if you were, but no longer are a subscriber to DDI... I was up until two weeks ago, but only because I had a discount subscription until then (early adopter, bought 2 years when I could for a steep discount). At present, I do not feel it's value is worth the price. What was the turning...

Map packs with a pair of poster maps and interesting locations. Something akin to Fantastic Locations would be great. Heck, no statblocks, editionless is fine. D&D Encounters for home play - Sell a kit of it Trap builders kit - Tell me an easy way to craft traps.

No, the Nentir Vale Gazetteer or something like that. At first I wasn't interested but now I am thinking about a home campaign set there.