Recent content by Laurefindel

First, I like my monster book singular. Not 15 books. Not 3. One should do. Then I hesitated between setting specific and general. I want general by meta-setting. In other words, I’m not interested in having a monster boon that will do D&D, Star Wars, Aliens, and Shadowrun, even if they all...

Yes. I’m not necessarily saying Hunter’s Mark used as 2014 RaW, but I think the ranger should have been the ‘marks’ class in the same way the paladin was the ‘smites’ class.

Hunter’s Mark was/is a bit wonky, but whereas the paladin was a burly combattant with auras and smites, the ranger should have been the agile combattant with terrains and marks. But I probably like horizontal symmetry more than most.

So… Abeir?

Indeed, both probably have the same potential amount for “Achtually” comments…

No, it’s too late for that. But it could (should?) have been ‘it’ from the start.

Also, use Arcane Abbeyance as a 1-hour ritual for non-ritual spells. 1) cast spell as abbeyed spell 2) take short rest 3) recover spent spell slot with arcane recovery 4) cast spell with abbeyed spell

Uncalled tangent here, but there are more than five continents? Or perhaps North America is considered a separate continent from South America, but then that would leave Antarctica as the forgotten continent by Hasbro? Or is Eurasia back to being two continents now? What’s the consensus these days?

Hesitating between… 1) A game is complete when the producers published everything that is necessary to play the game and provided all necessary guidelines (implicitly of explicitly) for fans and 3rd parties to expand upon the rules and setting(s). and 2) A game is “complete” when the appetite...

When I say Forgotten Realms, I mean Faerun. There are many tangential settings with permeable barriers, some geographically nearby, some astrally accessible, but my Forgotten Realms games were mostly concerned with the populations, cultures, trades, and dangers of Faerun. Those are all part of...

As I did for D&D, I LARPed Vampire:the mascarade (Mind’s Eye Theatre rules) before I even knew the table top game existed. I was 16-17-ish and it was… intense. A bit too much for my taste at first. Then I went to university and started playing table top V:tM. My experience resemble that of...

I’d go PHB, Xanathar, and Eberron RftLW. Though lately, I’ve been having nostalgia of 5.0 PHB-only.

Improv, as a stage performance, requires an impressive amount of prep. Even late-night standup comedy that interacts with the crowd requires a lot of prep. Thing is, prep doesn’t mean taking precise and extensive notes. A fair amount of my “prep” is just browsing Pinterest and reviewing the MM...

I haven’t played that many prewritten adventures, but in the ones we played, we probably had a dozen encounters total. It probably was a bit more, but no single adventuring day had more than 3 encounters at most.

This is funny and sad and relatable all at the same time