Recent content by Koloth

Assuming that a party will maintain a rigid marching order through miles of travel seems unrealistic. Someone slips and another stops to give a hand up. A shoelace or strap comes loose and the character stops to deal with it. Character C gets sick and tired of Character B's mess kit clanging...

We are color coding goblins now?

Dislike the showing only the QR code and not a text link. For a company that touts inclusiveness, why are they excluding folks that haven't bought into the personalized tracking device(smartphone) ecology? Plus including ball bearings as beginning equipment seems odd for a fantasy themed...

One trick I have used a few times to encourage players to be ready is to declare their character "Stunned and Amazed" if the player is taking way too long. The slow character takes an involuntary delay action and the next character in the initiative order goes. When the slow player is finally...

Will have to wait until one escapes into the wild to judge. Too often renders <> actual product.

The god HP = # of followers would explain why several pantheons feature gods fighting with each other. If I was going to do something like that, would skip the alignment thing(why should a god get benefits from a non believer that just happens to have a matching alignment?). Would also adjust...

Several as a player. GURPS game set in ~1600's Caribbean. Very low magic. Fairly true to our understanding of the real world era. GM is a history buff. PF1 - Didn't start as a sea/pirate game but the group managed to acquire several ships through action and kept them. Have a base in the...

And to stick with the topic, Heward's Handy Haversack shows up pretty early in many games and largely solves the encumbrance thing*. Or even just a masterwork backpack. *Well, except for the sheep. They kinda need air and stuff, but that stuff fits in the haversack.

As for the light/dark thing, one way to make it matter is for an area to be the result of a wish/miracle/etc where the wording was something like "I wish this room/floor/cave/etc be dark for everyone/thing except me." (for those wish legal eagles, go with the intent rather then exact wording)...

Could be that all future invented time travel devices use so much power/water/(some other resource) that using one can't be done.

0 for the last year. But a friend did a local one in June. He treats it as a vacation away from home even though it is only about 15 miles away. Used to go a lot. But cons like Dragoncon and Origins have gotten so large that fighting the crowds takes a lot of the fun away. Often felt like I...

Orcs, kobolds, goblins, skeletons, zombies, stirges, for common 'monsters'. Variations on caravan raiders, town guards, stupid drunks, and other adventurers for NPC 'classed' opponents. Been a while since I have seen a rust monster but it is a good way to flip the script on the heavily armored...

I didn't but he was a one off, well as far as we know so far. Still hoping that someone will lease the IP and produce a series or movie. They have CGI dragons down pretty well now. Would be a nice blend of fantasy and scifi.

The role descriptions are good. But the idea that one or more is a high level person is contrary to the fact that most RPG parties are pretty much all the same level/points/(however the game defines experience). Unless the party hires an NPC to fill the experienced veteran role. OTOH...

The dragons in Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern books had several colors. Green and Gold were female. Other colors were male. Also some size and status differences. Books came out starting late 60's. She also had pet sized fire lizards which we found out in later books were where the...