Recent content by GMMichael

Welcome to the trenches! D&D's Tome of Magic (circa 1990) did something similar with Wild Magic. Each casting would roll on a table for power level variation, and there was a d100 table for wild surges (special spell results). It's worth a look if you have good Google-fu or a proper library...

That sounds difficult. I'd rather just click on the pundit video about it. Let's rejoice; the pundits will soon be gone . . . because AI won't even require clicking. I'll still be on ENworld. (So don't rejoice too much!)

So some thief designers are saying, "okay, we handed out the special powers to the classes. Ugh, you know what we forgot? To make the classes that don't have special powers!" I'm skeptical. The need for thieves ( classes) is to fulfill the players' desire to emulate their favorite sneaky...

I knew cats had to be good for something! Having a mead horn is critical for most adventures. I also like to capture a siren whenever I can and strap it to the front of the wagon.

So (d8, d6) means "d4 be damned!" What was wrong with d20, reroll 17-20, I wonder?

Thanks for that, and for showing me what a good Troika! adventure looks like 🤓

Not at all! I had a good time, and worthy opponents. You haven't seen the last of me . . .

This is huge. If you give the players the notion that you're going to manage everything, then they can check out until it's their turn to roll a die. If you put a scene in their heads and ask them to interact with it, ask them questions about what's going on and let them imagine outcomes...

Aha! I'm glad our agony is shared :)

Or baiting for clicks. But then, do whatever works for your table. Top.

Yup. But OP needs to know that it's on the 6th edition now. Meet the new (D&D). Same as the old (D&D).

Now for the fun part: sifting through the entries for stuff to use on Halloween! Congrats winners, and thanks everyone for contributing!

Assuming I'd eat anyone else stuck on the island with me: Thousand Year Old Vampire for some solo play. Then Modos RPG, so I could use it to build the third game. Honorable mention to D&D 6th ed, because it's what the people I ate were playing.

I panicked when I wrote my notes out, and their word count was 750. So I took a nice long break, and probably had the same rush you did. Anyway, I have a bad feeling I'll be dreaming about ornithopters and sacks of coffee. The latter is not out of the ordinary.

Formatting is going to be the death of me. Are we allowed to use interns?