Lanefan's latest activity

I think you've hit the button; illusionism has a negative connotation because its often used to violate expectations. The cases where...

I think the thing that makes Lanefan's campaign a notable outlier is not being a sandbox, but the length-of-run.

Indeed, this to a large extent isn't preventable. This, one the other hand, very much is preventable. Mechanics like that are IMO an...

I started way, way back in high school and we ran with the same characters for years. I even started work on the world I still use back...

In his game it's quite possible some of the mages got to 18th level and thus able to hard-cast Wish, which makes wishes far more...

It took until 3e for monsters - by RAW - to finally get proper Con bonuses to their hit points just like characters get. To me, it...

Just how I like it. :) This, too. High risk, high reward. Given that, the obvious people to have making these items are the...

It also depends on a table's expected pace of play. Even just a single adventure here can take us 5-10 sessions (i.e. 1-3 months)...

My campaigns don't tend to last for years on end, but they are always presented open-ended; I don't run adventure paths, but ongoing...

Sure, but does anyone of us longtime folks not have a sense of what @Lanefan appreciates in play? Does anyone not understand what he...

Time to retire that one character. Not time to sink the whole campaign. Instead, you'd roll up something else and keep going, or take...

That's completely counter to my experience - I started playing in university, and still play with some of those same people today; and...

I'll have level-drainers show up now and then, but certainly not in every adventure.

"Strumpet" is just one of the many vocabulary words I learned from D&D in those days. Some years later, fresh out of college, I had a...

Errr... Huh? Wha...? A definition of "campaign" could somehow be taken as insulting? Yikes.