Recent content by jdrakeh

I am officially in love with her stuff now. Very cool!

From what I know of John Zinser's business decisions, if there's one person in game design today who would've agreed with Ryan Dancey's asinine take re: AI, it would've been him. The fact that he didn't shows just how bad of a take it was.

John Carpenter's The Thing (1982). It has a few minor continuity errors, but I'm still a mega-fan. I watch it a few times a year and am entertained every time. For me, this is as close to perfect as a film gets.

Complete in 50 pages or less, I suppose. I think I found a system that is really stripped down 5e.

Lots of great suggestions here, folks (including some I forgot that I already own). Thanks!

That's plain old RAW 5e, not stripped down anything. Which is not what I'm looking for.

Besides Nimble are there other stripped down versions of 5e that aren't limited to covering levels 1-5 only (I own a few of those)?

Probably Wisdom. In a recent-ish game, we had one player argue stringently in favor of our little band of Level 1 heroes overthrowing a world-spanning secret cabal of near omnipotent immortal beings, each of which had multiple lifetimes of influence and resources at their disposal. The rest of...

A Minimalist Fantasy Affair (Embellished Edition) has been updated to include A Minimalist Fantasy Setting. Adding context to the implied setting outlined in the core rules and the Companion, this guide adds expanded information about the role of the races in the world, the specifics of magic...

By default, it consists of the Heavens (where Gods dwell), the Hells (where demons and devils dwell), and The Beyond (where your spirit goes when it is separated from your mortal body). These are also the originating points of the three kinds of magic in the campaign world, conveniently (i.e...

I believe Fantasy Grounds is free to use now. One only needs to buy the plug-ins for whatever game you're playing. And, yes, it looks like they support both 5e (2014) and 5e (2024).

Medium rare with light salt, pepper, and a pat of butter.

My dad rocks a Matlock (Andy Griffith) vibe. Example outfit: Boot cut wheat jeans, deerskin blazer, a white button collar shirt, ostrich skin boots, and a silver and turquoise bolo tie (fashioned as a representation of thunderbird). I mention Matlock because my dad is an attorney in rural...

Carbon 2185. A good Cyberpunk variant of 5e. High quality, both in terms of art/layout and design. Complete in one core book (there are sourcebooks, but they're optional).

D&D novels as canon. Ensconcing the FR novels in official canon was the thing I hate TSR the most for. I mean, from a financial standpoint, I understand why they did it. But the headaches it caused me as a DM. JESUS. Woe unto me for not reading every damn FR novel that they published. I always...