Recent content by Liane the Wayfarer

That is a different dragon, I'll have add the 2E Steel Dragon. But the 2E and 4E Steel Dragons are completely different -- the 2E Steel Dragon exhales a gas that affects its targets like the feign death spell, while the 4E Steel Dragon exhales, uh, "force damage" apparently. And they're both...

"This build isn't really optimized." "Yes it is." "What? You made a goliath wizard, that's not optimized for a bunch of reasons, like-" "No, no, you misunderstand me. This is a totally optimized character -- for roleplay." "... But the numbers-" "I'm not playing with numbers, I'm playing with...

IIRC, the "Glyphs of Cerilon" article was reprinted in Best of the Dragon Volume 1.

Looks like I'll have to update my list of dragons soon: Fantastic Friday: True Dragons in D&D Can't tell you how disappointed I was that this never became reality.

I mean, we KNEW that! Just look at Villains & Vigilantes!

I haven't got WBtW yet, but I was recently replaying Planescape: Torment, and I plan to include the spell Tasha's unbearable derisive laughter somewhere in the adventure. I haven't done the math on the spells, but marsupialmancer has done a 5E conversion of the spells from that game. And...

This is easily the best meant-to-be-a-joke-but-actually-works-pretty-well-holy-cow! game I ever picked up. Back in my teenage years I made my own heartbreaker system called QuestMaster. I divided up Characteristics (innate ability, as opposed to learned ability which was measured by Skills)...

The 4E Heroes of the Feywild is some of the best fey fluff I've ever read in D&D, and I've been playing for 30+ years. It's really really good stuff, and can be ported without too much difficulty. The stats are problematic, but I like to just recycle ideas anyway and use my own homebrew stats. YMMV.

"And if we ever rebrand as a company We'll name it Gleemax or Wizards or Hasbro Anything but TSR!"

In my experience, the more accounting-heavy, gold-value treasure method they put in was one of the least-popular decisions made by the AL organizers. I understand its purpose, but it led to several AL tables ditching the AL rules for home games; the only tables that stayed AL had players who...

I also ran RPGA stuff previously for years, and agree wholeheartedly. Nothing much changed in the approach of the Organized Play campaign to rulings and houserules. I wasn't a member of it when the RPGA was 1st edition/2nd edition AD&D, but I have to think that it was pretty much the same. I've...

I have a little experience with this facet, having run Adventurers League games for conventions and hobby shops for several years. In League play, there is a heavy emphasis on the Rules As Written, precisely because people otherwise unknown to one another must play together at these events. Few...

I'm in the position where I have to upvote somebody, and all of the people left are people I don't like. I guess I'm seeing who I dislike the least? At least I'm learning something about myself, so I've got that going for me, which is nice.

Jasmine Bhullar, "Shikar" 9 Celeste Conowitch, "Venture Maidens" 9 Matt Colville, "The Chain of Acheron" 7 + 1 = 8 Matt Mercer, "Critical Role" 7 - 2 = 5 Again, I'd like to vote two people down instead of anybody up. But them's not the rules.

Can I pass on upvoting, and just downvote twice? :P