Recent content by guachi

I started my current campaign at level 0 and level 1 PCs look like superheroes comparatively.

In a Level Up game I'm running one of the players didn't like his PC. He made a new one focused on having as high a Perception as he could manage (19 Passive Perception at level 3) and he also ended up with a really high Insight. Mechanically, he was a really good build. All of the other...

I find 5e bookkeeping far worse. Every class has a million skills and abilities that work on varying amounts (proficiency bonus, ability bonus, something else) times per short/long rest. It's an absolute mess to keep track of. XP is quaint and easy by comparison.

I started a game just about 5 months ago. We started at lvl 0 and I ran a modified N4 Treasure Hunt. In any case, the PCS have just made it to level 4. I think we've done 15 sessions in the last 5 months. Sessions are 4 hours at maximum but the usual playing time average is more like 3 hours for...

My choice was I3 Pharaoh. I don't think it's a coincidence that both were written by Tracey and Laura Hickman. As to boxed text mentioning monsters last - it was standard TSR procedure to do that in more or less every module they ever published.

I3 Pharaoh is fantastic. The layout is entirely designed for being run at a table and not an adventure that's organized to be an entertaining read like it's some kind of vacation guide. Here's random page (page 14) and you can see how each area is very easily keyed for DM use.

I'm retired now and have a gaming group of 5 (was 6 but 1 moved to attend college) with 4 players new to D&D. We are playing Level Up so they are even more clueless and so am I as I've owned the rules but never played. None but me own any Level Up books. So, I've spent a huge amount of time...

Laser printer and a comb binder plus some acetate cover sheets. Not quite as professional looking but they do lay flat, and that's REALLY nice.

I am currently running an A5E campaign with modified rest rules and the martial characters, especially the barbarian (berserker), are terrifying. Only level 3 but I'm amazed at how good they are. The poor Druid and Cleric kinda suck.

I still have all of my cards but I stopped buying in the late '90s. The thing about having 12 multilands and a sol ring (no Mox) and the cards I mentioned is that they were cheap, cheap, cheap to cast. That was my mana and, I think, one City of Brass (from Chronicles).

I'm a nobody but I'll agree with Mearls. "The dungeon is the boss monster" is one of the most obviously true statements about D&D that I'm baffled I haven't read it earlier. Something occurred to me about D&D a few weeks ago. Your primary job as a player is to entertain everyone else at the...

Level Up also did this. As it's right there in the character creation section it's readily noticeable. It's probably my single favorite thing about the game simply because it effects every PC.

I'll second Call of Cthulu. It's the game you play when you want a bit of 1920s Earth history with your RPG.

I had a Red/White/Blue deck back in the day full of multi-lands and every counter for a specific type of card that you could cast - Stone Rain, Counterspell, Flash Counter, Swords to Plowshares, Disenchant. If you could cast it, I could destroy it. It was incredibly annoying to play against and...