Recent content by JamesLFlowers

Played 2e extensively during high school and college. Always felt that 2e was one of the heydays of D&D with new settings, game world expanding, etc. Unlike a lot of people, I loved THAC0 and always found it an easy way to calculate hits and misses in combat.

My current DM loves monsters who seem to be one thing and then suddenly are something else, especially when the transformation is due to player actions. Sort of like feeding the Mogwai after midnight or the Flerken from MCU. Its so cute... AHHHHH!

Mid-Apocalypse. Just finished a campaign in Peterson's Planet Apocalypse setting where the lost lower plane of Underhell has resurfaced and is invading the Material Plane. The players were able to defeat the ArchLord in charge of the invasion of Toril and shut the portals which stopped that...

Make the party work for it. Now I don't mean throw things overpowered so the party gets killed. But make the party think and work. Something more than the run up to the bad guy and bash him with the magic sword while the guy in the robe hits him with a Ray of Death and Destruction. Remember...

A few thoughts... Ship to ship combat... as others have posted, the goal is to loot the ship which means you have to take it. So ship to ship combat is more disabling than destroying and then BOARDING which is standard character on NPC combat except you don't have that great over-armored...

"A true pirate is going to be evil". This one I am going to have to disagree with. Look at the history of piracy in the Caribbean and you see that many pirates ended up pirates because of politics. Take Captain Kidd. He set out on a legally financed and supported privateering mission. He...

I have seen many works where the Seelie Court is "beautiful" and the unSeelie Court is "ugly". So a creature like a brownie would be UnSeelie simply because they were not beautiful. Also seen it broken out in terms of power, a creature would be unseelie simply because it did not have power -...

Are we really talking 8 combats a day or 8 combats between long rests? If you look at things through a lens of realism, you are not going to get many long rests in the "field" as you will spend part of the night on guard duty - 3 hrs sleep, 3 hrs guard, 3 hrs sleep isn't that restful. Even if...

Dragons are already unique. Just because two dragons are "red" doesn't make them the same. It simply makes them come from the same base. If every red dragon is the same, that's just lazy DM not a D&D issue. Intelligent creatures develop their own personalities, quirks, and abilities.

Remember, depending on what version of the lore you are working in each level of Baator is limitless or maybe limited in size, and even in the limited version Avernus is the biggest (or at least seems to be) level. So multiple entities claiming to be the Lord of Avernus and ruling as such...

Our last session we concluded a campaign using the Peterson Games "Planet Apocalypse" setting. This is a setting where the lost plane of UNDERHELL returns and the ArchLords Of Underhell open portals and start invading other planes. Through other sessions we had fought our way through to the...

I had Dispater, Archdevil and Lord of Dis as a patron for my Illrigger. Let's just say he has problems. Lots of them. Paranoid to the point of sheer insanity. You get woke up in the middle of the night with "Such and Such is scheming against me, infiltrate their cult and stop them" when such...

One way to handle player expectations is to do an actual Pact negotiation. Some representative of the Patron shows up and a deal is worked out. There are multiple PACT templates running around the 'net. Or drop hints all along that the player is being groomed by whatever otherworldly power...

"Tater Elemental".... I think I have a figure for that one. A highly customizable one.

While not a Warlock, I have been playing an Illrigger which is also a "patron/pact" based class, that patron being whichever of the ArchDevils the Illrigger has sworn a pact. The DM has used the Patron calling in my marker as an adventure hook a couple of times.