Recent content by GMMichael

Great. The next thing someone's gonna tell me is that vampires can "magically shapeshift" into creatures with "pointy ears" that . . . oh, wait. This is about where I like my vampire ears to land for pointiness: Chilling. Gary. Oldman.

Well, "champions" does have an A and an I in it. Could be WotC's term for non-human game masters.

So glad Matt Mercer landed the Strahd gig! Maybe his next game will be called Stakeheart? Seriously . . . was Strahd always an elf?

That partially answers my question: doesn't it take marketing to get to $1M? I haven't seen peep about this game. It's good to see murder-hoboing take a backseat in the name of "cozy."

I think this is a related issue for me. I assume in this situation, the player shows up a week later and asks something like, "what happened, and what did my character do?" And your response is, "you had downtime! You tell us (right now!) what you were up to during the last adventure." I'm...

Why describe it, when . . . . . . I can just agree that @Remathilis has it right? Skulls are the way to go. I think it's Doom-inspired for me.

And the malefactors hold their breath, hoping no PCs show up for just . . . one . . . week. I just get nervous thinking about the explanation of why a character was at home, shining his boots, while the rest of the gang was sloshing into poisonous swampland. I do like the idea of discovering...

3 INT would be a compliment for my chi! Rolling a 3 or 4 isn't - statistically - a big problem. But hey, you could roll one. Just don't put it in an attribute that you like. Maybe Shadowdark requires assigning down the line . . . then own it. Why play Shadowdark if you don't like the rules...

Epic ninja, @JohnSnow . I think you beat Mustrum by what, 15 hours? 🤓 I'm not super-excited to tinker with D&D, especially something as fundamental as AC, because you have cascading consequences to worry about. Racia . . . species abilities, class & subclass abilities, spells, monster...

Well, if they don't, then they don't live very long. It's hard enough to get the party cleric to CLW one of the PCs before they die, much less one of the party beasts. Thanks for clarifying that, D&D. I'm pretty sure you're taking a different kind of rest when you have 0 hit points.

It's crazy that you should role-play your character? Is the other thread not about a role-playing game? Or the creator believes in the power of GMs. That was my takeaway from a skim or two. I'm pretty sure they're characteristics. But yes, GMs generally shouldn't penalize PCs. Unless...

I think you just described Modos RPG combat to a T. Well, except for the part about strength affecting damage. It's not easy to make a case that agility or intelligence have less to do with damage than strength does. Good to know that the concepts are 50 years old :mad: I use a...

Those 3.5 books don't die just because some of their rules do. Convert! Realistically, if you're playing 5/6e now, you're still playing 3.5, just with kid bonus gloves on and 4e healing thrown in. No, but they say Baldur's Gate 3 runs on 5e rules. It might be a good taste test.

One of the (gulp!) good things about D&D is that its prevalence makes it easy to playtest. If there's one rule or mechanism you want to tinker, you can probably get 6 players lined up on Roll 20 in a heartbeat. Hmm, maybe a bad example, because I think Roll 20 has D&D mods, and some players...