Recent content by Gimby

Quite so. But I do still find it funny how this was held up as the "video gamey" innovations of 4e while being a continuation of the way the game had been functioning for the best part of a decade.

Given how often the prone ooze thing comes up, I'll point out that you can make oozes prone in 3.5 - the ooze type does not provide prone immunity, gelatinous cubes (for example) don't have prone immunity and even causing the prone condition via a Trip attack only gave you a +4 bonus on the...

I think it's certainly possible, but requires a good amount of finesse. I was running Curse of Strahd in which the characters of the Kolyana siblings, Ismark and more importantly Ireena have potential significant arcs. The story of the module has the potential to revolve around Ireena and...

It doesn't even really need to be sat doing nothing - consider LOTR - the journey from Bag End to Mount Doom takes about six months. In that time how many fights do the fellowship get into? When they do it's often a flurry in short order (Helm's Deep, Siege of Gondor)

Let's see how one of the characters quoted as inspirational to D&D dies : " The first son of Calatan asked him for a spear, and threatened to satirize Cuchulain if he did not hand it over. Cuchulainn narrowed his eyes and said, “Never let it be said that I am not a generous person,” and he...

Would you say you should apply that to say, a rogue's Sneak Attack or Evasion abilities?

You are thinking of third ed there - the cube doesn't get prone immunity till 5th

Oh, you know, maybe some limit to the amount of healing someone can receive over time. Maybe a condition track for diseases and similar conditions. It's a real shame D&D has never explored this kind of thing ;)

A lion is about twice the weight of an adult man and vastly stronger (humans are unusually weak for their body weight compared to other primates, for various reasons).

Nope "Instead of using a weapon to make a melee weapon attack, you can use an unarmed strike: a punch, kick, head--butt, or similar forceful blow (none of which count as weapons). On a hit, an unarmed strike deals bludgeoning damage equal to 1 + your modifier. You are proficient with your...

By doing 26 hp of damage vs AC 12 with unarmed strikes. Probably fairly straightforward to do solo by level 3 or so

How about if someone claimed to be royalty and asked for a tour of the Navy's most prestigious battleship? And this demonstrates that actual royals would have got the same treatment without scepticism. "Illogical" actions happen in the real world constantly.

That's a very good point - expanding rough campaign notes to a module someone else could use is looking pretty daunting so best to keep things to a relative minimum to start.

For the first two the adventure is about things being found on the island that are known to not exist, the latter is largely using the 5e firearms rules but also allowing the PCs to track gunpowder armed opponents by sound. It's all things that could be changed, but it's additional work that...

I've recently been working on converting a short home campaign into a module that I could publish and I and a co-author were having a discussion on whether it's worth adjusting it somewhat to expand the potential audience. It's set in a pastiche regency world, focussing on the voyage of a...