Recent content by FreeTheSlaves

Has someone mentioned that Withers, AKA Jergal, is actively backing the party with cut-price resurrections + fallen hero hirelings? That's some pretty blatant and powerful divine support. In game you can employ the hirelings in all manner of ways. Camp casters are especially strong, I have my...

You can play a saviour if you want. You get hailed a hero if you save a bunch of innocents. Three time I counted, in EA. Starting morally grey companions can grow to like you and some even begin to agree with your heroic choices.

I've played a lot of EA and BG3 is more like TT D&D than CRPGs BG1 or 2. Just the whole party and camp dynamic by itself contrasts with daily adventuring. Yeah, sure. There's lots of exotic locations; Underdark, Avernus, (strongly hinted at) Astral Plane, (foreshadowed) Chult. But these in...

I don't see how BG3 can be epic level tier, or even much into high tier, is because of the map. One of the big changes ime with getting high level is the freedom of travel. Just simply acquiring a ship or hippogriff mounts (possibly mid-tier) is that they open up destination options within a...

I was a bit shocked when my friend's 10 year old son got scared midway through the movie and they had to leave. But the Thay scenes, Underdark and Sofina herself are a bit scary. Turns out 3 years makes a big difference in viewability.

Yes! 5E kind of alludes to the solution with difficult terrain costing +1' of speed and climbing costing +1' of speed in tactical movement. So if the base travel speed is 24 miles a day, in rough mountains requiring periods of climbing, that drops to 8 miles.

Nah, no Tasha's for me. It's too far removed from the 2014 PHB. I think it's more for a younger generation of player? The three local groups I'm in or aware of don't use it, and anyway for my introduction group we only use the simplest ruleset.

My 10th level character still has 5k to repay on his stronghold loan and wrangled a 6k deal to hire 100 mercenaries for a month of campaigning. His recent share of treasure totals about 4.5k. There's a temporarily resident transmuter-smith that could make magical plate armour, I'm guessing...

Until someone writes something as good as those early Salvatore novels, Drow ain't gonna change. It's got to fire the imagination and spread like wildfire, some niche sourcebook won't change much. For me, Drow are black, evil and super-cool. And old-skool Drizzt is the iconic outcast rebel...

There would be a heck of a lot of play testing and development to change the PHBs. It's the core product, man, stuff something like this up and they'll have another 4E on their hands and can kiss their jobs & reputations goodbye. I see a lot of stick getting thrown at races and alignment in...

I had foes kill downed PCs twice last mini-campaign. First one was an action-surging half-dragon that cut down and finished off fighter1 in a duel set-up. Infatuated acolyte raised her but killed self using scroll way beyond ability. Second one was in the final battle where fighter2's held...

We had a PC death and a beat-down last session, it certainly got people's attention. There had been some rash play leading up to it, so it was very educational for the newer players. The experienced players noticed I had held back, but had maneuvered their PCs to escape regardless. I have gone...

I recently had a player cheat himself out of the encounter he badly wanted because he had read the adventure. Read it fairly, mind you, he DM'd it earlier. Situation: Tyranny of Dragons, early 1 on 1 duel, another PC accepts first and gets themselves killed against a BBEG. Player gets upset...

That's a good question! Well, they all had selected bonds to be against the Cult of the Dragon and had pretty much suffered failure when on their own. Each alignment by itself wasn't a problem, even the evil PC matched the bond of revenge. I left it then to the players to build relationships...

If I enforce Good-only, and therefore certain players don't play, or these players get bored and leave. I am 100% fine with that. I do not want/need/desire deleterious players. What I can't stand are players who bring all manner of crank into the game and destroy it - ruining my effort and...