Recent content by Fifinjir

Well, if the gods in my campaigns looked at this threat they’d say “yeah? We’ll see how good a job you do making sure one plus one still equals two tomorrow!” You don’t want then to actually give you that job. They can more or less be likened to overworked code debuggers, they’re good for...

Currently playing the Unity version of Daggerfall. Modded for more enemies, more flair for villages and cities, random encounters in towns a wilderness (using a form of fast travel where you fast forward to the location rather than teleport there), expanded use for the language skills which...

Funnily enough, Ultima V and VI already have pretty great fan remakes…that probably work worse on modern computers than the GOG versions of the original games. So I guess what I want are re-remakes of Ultima V Lazarus Ultima VI Project with an Ultima IV version to go with them.

Species: aasomar, tiefling, genasii, and some shadow and fay planetouched. This shows us a world where the physical and supernatural realities have no “wall” between them, everyone is affected by the Planes. Classes: Warlock Paladin barbarian monk/mystic (not necessarily a face-puncher, but...

I know this snippet of the post wasn’t necessarily the main point, but it was a good jumping off point. What causes me to become disinterested in the lore is the feeling of “okay, but what’s the point”. When it gets so bogged down in the minutiae that it loses the through-line. For example, if...

Well, yes, I’d be able to counter it I think. The guideline I thought of earlier would be part of that managing if I implement it.

I can only speak for myself, but my stake is that other species that are functionally treated as humans have a tendency to edge into becoming like analogies or allegories for real life ethnicities, which I find kind of questionable. A thought I had recently is that if a character comes from an...

When I’m in the player seat, I have to admit a lot of my interest in lore is driven by the question “will I regularly be fighting something more interesting than random wolves and bandits”. It’s one of the main reason I can’t get into low fantasy, but the same feeling can worm its way into more...

With the specification of including everything in the PHB and MM, I think mythic fits best. God, titans, and other great powers are around and active, vying against each other for dominance, and their wars have far reaching consequences for rest of the life forms. The PCs are people who have the...

I lean towards normal, with the caveat that in a world of monsters, their normal can probably already handle some tough situations.

The full story has some elements that I’d need to double check the rules to see if I can post about (I mean, it is based on the way the 2014 MM says hags make more of them, which I’ve been kind of dancing around actually describing), so I’ll get back to you on that. Suffice to say, she killed...

If I (not an Exandria fan) were to try to explain it, the setting has existentialism and individualism (perhaps even hyper-individualism, as vague as that difference is) as the “air it breathes”, something it has just as a basic assumption rather than a theme it’s trying to convey.

I’m sad that the campaign fell apart before they could get to the reveal, but I did have fun roleplaying a hag as the villain of the initial plot arc. Making the party think that this grandmotherly forest sage was helping them when really she was the cause of the crisis and using them to further...

A Knights of the Old Republic 2 theory that cascaded into another: The initial theory about the assassins is not mine, though it caused me to think about all the other stuff.

When playing strategy games like Total Warhammer, Stelaris, or Conquest of Elysium, I imagine what the commanders are saying to each other as the campaign plays out. Of course this assumes they have some form of quick long distance correspondence, but I can generally assume magic or super...