Recent content by Hemlock

Isn't that kind of the point? I believe the viewpoint here is something along the lines of "pretending to believe in made-up lies feels uncomfortably like taking real lies seriously and might lead someone to actually believe in them."

My gut says "huge variance, but a surprisingly high number of 1- or 2-round victories, especially against enemies who break psychologically once it's clear they're outmatched." So anyway, I'm very familiar with 5-8 round battles, but I voted for 1-2 anyway, based on my gut. (I'd probably say...

RE: #1, back in 2017 I would have rolled initiative, 5E-style, but nowadays I would have them meet in the middle and probably just have the PC roll his attack first (order doesn't really matter on a first attack so might as well let the player go first). Your way of doing it ("whoever got...

I made a couple of small enhancements to the saving throw analyzer: (1) You can now analyze randomly-generated encounters under Xanathar's rules, DMG rules, or my modified DMG rules which give less unbalanced encounters for low-CR monsters, using Lanchester's 3/2 Law of Combat, which is what...

Sorry for the late response. I left this message board a few years ago (2017) when Enworld's owner Russ pointedly disinvited everyone who didn't share his political views. I'm cautiously giving it another look now to see if things have changed. For me the main change since 2017 is, yes, rolling...

I do, because "demon" is too generic. What would a peasant call a T-Rex that ate his daughter? Probably "a demon from the jungle" or something like that. Don't even get me started on "daemon." I'm fine if ignorant peasants refer to Tanar'ri (or Yugoloths, or Baatezu, or dragons or hydras) as...

You can actually, using Plotly's Zoom control to zoom in on a specific range: However, I'm currently working on displaying encounters instead of just monsters, so you'll have a graph of (for example) what a bunch of randomly-generated 20th level encounters using Xanathar's encounter rules...