Recent content by Greenstone.Walker

Yes, this is a must-have feature. All screens should do this. I have inserts for the player-facing side with artwork and hints for D&D, Apocalypse World, and Conan 2d20.

Very seldom. I played a Fighter/Thief multiclass in 1E and I was never more than one level behind. When the single-class characters were level 8, my character would be 7/7, 8/7, or 8/8. Never 6/7 or 6/6. Of course, the single-class characters varied as well. The XP for a level 8 cleric put a...

Beware, though, the hinges between the sections are very weak. I've had two screens that seperated. One turned from a four-pane screen into two two-pane screens. The other turned into one three-pane screen and a single pane. You can repair them with something like duct tape but that looks ugly...

I'd go with three stats (though I'd prefer 6). Physical, covering strength, agility, health. Mental, covering memory, study, knowledge, sneakiness, retention. Social, covering charisma, leadership, centredness, self-confidence. There would be two types of spellcasters. Learned casters get...

I don't play evil characters or put up with evil companions, so for me it was: BG1 (EE): Imoen, Branwyn, Minsc, Dynaheir, Kivan. Sometimes Glint, sometimes Neera, sometimes Corwin. BG2 (EE): Imoen (d/c to Wizard), Minsc, Anomen (d/c to Cleric), Neera, plus one of Keldorn, Mazzy, or Sarevok (in...

Agreed. PDF is a terrible format for reading on a device because it is a represenation of a printed page, in other words, fixed. I am currently dealing with a vendor whose documents are all A3 landscape 2 column pdfs. Reading those on a computer screen sucks. You have to keep scrolling down...

Environment A fight with goblins in a cave is OK. A fight with goblins in a cave crisscrossed with unjumpable chasms is harder. A fight with goblins in a dave crisscrossed with unjumpable chasms belching vision-blocking smoke is harder still, especially if the smoke moves from round to round...

For me, rolling 1d4 for each missile is as strange as rolling 8d6 for every target in the fireball. :) Essentially, magic missile is an area of effect spell that can affect some targets more than once. This means that some feature (like alchemical savant) make magic missile a lot more...

I have a player who continually gets on the map with a ruler, measuring mm and comparing it to the scale. …and then complaining when I say "the journey takes four days" but he thinks it should have taken 2½ days at the party's travel pace. He doesn't get that (1) distance on a map doesn't equal...

Keep the initiative running - don't stop and reroll. If the players have their characters just look at the door, not opening it, have the characters hear muffled voices, moving furniture, sounds of running, and so on. Just because the characters stand in the passage doing nothing does not mean...

Extinguish the candle, apprentice, so that we may See. In my experience, the most misapplied rule is "disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks in dim light". If I had a dollar for every time a player has asked "why am I at disadvantage, I have darkvision?" I'd be able to afford a steak dinner.

I'd vote for Hieroneous, Boccob and Iuz.

For players - "Learn the rules." From a recent game where we are over 20 sessions in but one player still doesn't know how to make an attack roll.

That's an interesting assumption. 8 rounds of combat total between short rests? I've seen games with 8 combats between rests. That's also assuming you never give any party members bardic inspiration. How do they feel about that?

I'm not sure I'd use "clear goal" and "Curse of Strahd" in the same sentence. The game I played in was just characters wandering around at random, being beaten up outside towns and ripped off by merchants in towns. The closest we got to a clear goal was helping with the revolution in one of the...