Recent content by GM Dave

Ways to introduce a villain. 1> The direct and in your face method. Someone denounces the person and tells the players how they were wronged and that the other person is a villain. Everyone and their cousin knows Sauron is evil. 2> The personal confrontation. The villain tells the players...

Yeah, I think it is going to have to come down to what's best for the group and the game. I appreciate the feed back that I have received as it has helped me think of how I want to go ahead with this situation. He's a core player for the group (we use his house as he has three kids with a...

So, I decided to sit down tonight to think through how he could achieve an AC of 27. I did not expect 'trickery' as he is a former GM that I've played with and is pretty meticulous on his usage of rules when building things. If anything, I'm more a 4e style of GM when it comes to monsters and...

Exploiting weakness or matching up opponents that will pound the player is not too hard. Examples: A group of level 1 Sorcerer's (4 to 6) with Magic Missile or Negative Channeling Clerics will bypass his defenses (there are some monsters like Helm Horrors that work in a similar way). I can go...

Okay, I'm running a Pathfinder game and things have been going mostly well. We just had our 19th game session last night and we've been actively playing since Jan (started planning in Dec).. The big problem that I have is that one of the players has taken their Summoner Class character...

With the look at the new suggested rule for familiar, it again looks like we are going to get a blase version of the rules. If anything, the familiar rules most resembles Vaarsuvius' Ravenfrom the Order of the Stick. It's Poke-Familiar! Two ideas from other systems for familiars might do more...

+1 is not always helpful unless you are doing min-max point buy generation. Random roll it is likely a 50-50 benefit. The base system still runs on ( Attribute -10 ) /2 for bonus generation with round down for any fractions. That means that on an odd number the +1 is useful but on an even...

They could borrow the Avenger mechanic for the Paladin. The Paladin could name his current 'hated' foe and get advantage in combat against that person in exchange for disadvantage (or granting advantage) to anyone else attacking them. Add a 'lay on hands' battery powered like the 'hit dice'...

I'm a fan. It is nice to see human having some reason to be plentiful (and not just because of supposed birth rate); especially, in the adventuring crowd. Let's face it is tough often being the only individual in a dungeon or sneaking at night and having to ask 'What is killing us this time?'...

After much hoop hoping and effort, I've finally got the download. Now, I've got to find the time to read the thing. Well, having is easier than not having.

I've signed up but they still haven't contacted me back to download (that was yesterday afternoon). I don't have any tab on my inbox page at WotC profile which would be for any content.

Speaking of sub-races and monsters. Can we finally have different tribes of non-humanoids? I mean, Goblins in WFRP come in different types. Couldn't DnD take a lesson and start to have different types of Goblins, Hobgoblins, Orcs, etc. I get to choose monsters and they all seem so vanilla...

When people talk on the 'good old days' of DnD and refer to things like 1e for being a Magic-User; I often think they have rosier lens than I do. Sure, your DM roles you a decent spell book then you might have a chance to feel like a Magic-User. I recently pointed out in the 'Have you seen a...

I agree that the shift from 2e to 3e when it comes to spells was mostly a copy and paste. There was little consideration of spells except making sure their were Arcane and Divine spells divided over 9 levels plus cantrips. You can even find some odd bits in the 3.0 spells that came out as a...

Now, while I did post that a Wizard could easily in 1e and 2e dominate at low levels with a couple of spells like Charm Person and Sleep; it usually didn't happen. The reason? The random spell book. A wizard used to start with 3 first level random spells along with Read Magic. The three...