Recent content by James Gasik

I'm going to ask "what does completing a campaign" even mean? Are we talking an adventure path? Getting to level 20? I've been playing in the same AD&D game (on and off) since late 1989 and it's still going to this very day...and I've played one-shots that lasted a couple of sessions which...

It's just the example I used, there's a lot of games, like say, Call of Cthulhu, where you can go from fighting normal people with knives to cultists with shotguns to star vampires unkillable by normal means in the same adventure, lol. I just had V:tM on the brain because a newer Storyteller...

Ok, so, looking at my copy of Feast of Goblyns, the back cover says this: However, given the fact that there's potential enemies like a Dark Lord, a 180 year old vampire, and a 13th level Necromancer, I think the best advice the adventure gives is this: You really could run the adventure for...

Ok, thank you.

I don't foresee any problem, the game that just went on hiatus, the last session was very similar. The DM was like "ok, so you killed the Voidspawn (a strange critter that was living inside a Sphere of Annihilation!) and while there's a few encounters left, I think you guys could take them...

Yeah well, they didn't think "Rakshasa" for some reason. At the time, I thought that was the point, to catch them off guard, and it wasn't until I realize "oh, they're going to die here" that I realized maybe I should have been more heavy handed about the clues.

I mean, the redesign certainly proves that most people found them lacking and even the developers don't want to champion their original form. It's so odd, the PHB claims backgrounds have "concrete features", which doesn't sound very "ribbon-like" to me, but I suppose we'll never know what they...

Well let me put it to you this way. I'm pretty sure after the big battle, I will lack the physical or mental endurance to run a few minor encounters. Better to have a big climax to the adventure and get to the denouement at that point!

It's hard to divine the intent of Backgrounds. If they were meant to be temporary, and useless after Tier 1, it would have been nice if the book said as much, instead of the DMG asking the DM to work with the players to make them important to the game.

First, having proven they could defeat the bosses, there's no reason to even risk letting the players die to the minions, IMO. Second, the miners are the ones they are there to free, it's the guards that they would fight- ogres and drow. Not the kind of people I would really want the PC's to...

My experiences with Ravenloft adventures was that my players hated it when I ran them, lol. The monsters were usually juiced up, complete with "new powers" they weren't ready for, the setups were usually "so this blatantly evil guy wants you to do X", and the experience was generally miserable...

There's only one way to respond to this. "My Rogue deals 17 points of..."

Probably every thread should have a disclaimer. "It is assumed that all statements made by posters found in this thread are, in fact, their personal opinions unless chapter and verse be provided to prove that they are facts."