Recent content by Lakesidefantasy

Shadowdark's my favorite. I'm looking for less rules, less customization, and more focus on the adventure.

I try to obscure everything I can about the monsters. We're as likely to encounter a four-legged black wyvern as we are a dragon with scales so deep blue they're black, that spits acidic fireballs and has a scorpion tail. I see it as a duty to my Players. To keep things fresh.

I haven't much time to write at the moment so I apologize for this half-baked thought. Supersymmetry in physics was "in the news" in the 1970s and '80s and I think it had an impact on the community. Or maybe Dungeons and Dragons impacted the physics community.

The Elder Oblex is an "Invasion of the Bodysnatchers" kind of monster with a Challenge Rating of 10. It is found in Volo's Guide (the one in the Multiverse may be missing the Sulfurous Impersonation entry).

How about an elder oblex in the form of a giant blob that fills the entire lower level in a "Crimson Oubliette" style dungeon. Now hear me out here. You can use the oblex' aversion to fire to justify using torches to keep the ooze at bay in a 30-ft. bubble as you explore the dungeon. Ignore the...

I don't fault you for presuming magic is responsible for the training/proficiency, especially since this item is found in the magic items section of the book, but I must stand up and put in a word for MA* and PAMD**. I personally would ignore the "rules" and instead rule that if you wear this...

That's definitely going to give them a reason to address the curse. I like it.

What is WPN?

How about they can no longer see the light--they can only see shadows. Bright light is (magical) darkness to them and darkness is bright light.

We need to make these! I'll give it a shot tonight.

Magitech and the demystification of magic. The nuance between warforged and robots is thin, and apparently was missed by the producer in some people's estimation. I suspect that some will find it perplexing that some of us are uncomfortable with robots but not warforged.

The personality traits etc. already have guidelines for applying alignment to those traits. I think it was in the Ideals. I really miss the Personality Traits etc. and I wish they would have been included in the 50th Anniversary edition.

If it's more than three paragraphs, I probably won't read it.

I added a third axis along a fanatic/apathetic axis. I did this out of frustration with Dungeon Masters who police alignment. Fanatics make principled decisions, whereas Apathetics don't care. Nowadays I don't engage in such baroquen rules systems. I just make Chaotic Neutral characters instead.

I didn't play 4th Edition but liked they way it handled alignment by giving us the "Unaligned" option. It was a better solution than my own which incorporated a third fanatic/apathetic axis and resulted in 27 alignments (although all 9 of the apathetic alignments were essentially the same as...