Recent content by GMMichael

I'd like to hear your take on these. I've seen the Dragonbane free quickstart, but I couldn't tell you how broad/tall it was from the small sample. Well yeah! Modos 2, my ENnie nominee, uses an a la carte progression system by default. Players choose an attribute bump, skill bump, and a perk...

It's for levels 1-3 in the "starter set."

Allow me to draw your attention to the "class features" section of the "pops." I'll hand it to WotC, it takes a hero's courage to try and simplify 6e.

5/10, one reason being clarity: A: What's an NPC? B: It stands for non-player-character. A: So, everything that's not a player-character. Like my sword? B: No, it means every character that doesn't have a player. A: Who plays the character if it doesn't have a player? B: The DM. A: So the...

No, the fire dragon keeps a log of each gem encrusted in its hide. It's sort of like a balance sheet. I'd like to know if one can capitalize on the low Luck score. Otherwise, my merry band will be avoiding such creatures.

These are both questions of scale, illustrating how much progress the GM wants to award for the roll result. It seems that Baker uses "conflict" for simpler activities, and "task" for more complex ones.

Thought you were going to end this with . . . "definitely doesn't make noise if she doesn't want to." Anyway, I thought some shadows floated around whispering, "kill kill kill kill."

Zweihaender is excellent for this. I feel nefarious characters with palmed stilettoes all around me when I read the book.

The suggestions were a little more nuanced than that. The first was creating a world condition to solve a problem, the second was reacting to world conditions to solve a problem. The problem can vary in scale in both situations. To me, OP's question is closely related (even if not stated that...

After trying King's Fairy Tale, I'm not in a rush, or a walk, to see this. And I know that 4 mph can be maintained for at least 12 miles.

About the same as you do, but I cut myself off before I get to "area 12."

Hodor. Hodor, hodor hodor. Hodor hodor.

Level 2: you smell like a wet dog.

Your offspring always turn out to be goblins. Or worse: dragonborn warlocks. My immediate concern is that some players won't want to know that their PCs are suffering a curse without having done something to earn it. So you'll get push-back if it's actually harmful. A benign effect might be...

LotR is a specific work, yes. It has also inspired countless, similar works. I'd call the style of that group a genre. Maybe even "medieval fantasy." I'd be very surprised to see characters in the next WotC adventure refer to another character's "race." This points to all D&D being punk...