Recent content by Lord Twig

To get back to my original point. My objection wasn't actually that there were no longer inherently evil orcs. I assumed they would be gone. My problem is that they put morally ambiguous things in their place. If you don't want evil orcs, fine. I have no problem with that. Put something else...

Area B. ORC LAIR: Upon entering, the party will see that the wall 30’ to the north is decorated with heads and skulls (human, elven, dwarven) in various stages of decay. Page 15, room 3. FOOD STORAGE ROOM: The door is locked. This place contains various sorts of dried and salted meat, grain...

No, the orcs are Evil because they are murdering and eating people, I don't care what justification you come up with after the fact. The module is exactly as unambiguous as I make it out. I interpreted it this way because I can read. But don't take my word, let's look at the original itself...

Okay? I don't know how this applies to what I said. I have explained that in the original adventure people were being grabbed off the road to be eaten. It makes it very clear that they are Evil (big E). I have also explained that, regardless of how other people might have played things back in...

I mentioned fighting orcs that murdered people, took others alive so they could eat them later, and it was suggested that I wanted murder hobos that killed people just because they looked different. That is what I take exception with. Just because only Law and Chaos were mentioned, it didn’t...

Ah, yes. Maybe you missed the part where I said those "funny looking people" were murdering people and eating them. The characters were not "murder hobos". They were heroes protecting people from violent aliens that want to kill all of the humans, elves, dwarves, halflings and other friendly...

Keep on the Borderlands was my first adventure, and I was looking forward to seeing what they did with it. Having received by box yesterday I finally had a chance to sit down and take a look at what I got. Overall, I'm pretty happy with it, but there are some disappointments too. First, as you...

Sure, but D&D 5e 2024 (and the previous version) does do what I expect of it (for the most part), which is, in my opinion, a Magical Superhero RPG. The problems I have with it are fairly minor, and many of them are when it forgets what it is. It doesn't need to have abilities that have no...

I have realized that I DON'T want my games to be like the movies. I want them to be like the book. And how many times have you heard that the original book is so much better than the movie? With a book you can stop and think, "Wait a minute... how did he shoot his crossbow, throw a dagger, and...

The Gunslingers with Weapon Cords was dumber than this. The rules worked like this: A max level Gunslinger could normally only fire a one-handed gun a maximum of 4 times. But you could dual wield one-handed guns to get four shots with each gun. But wait a minute! You need a hand free to load...

Verisimilitude and the Art of the Crossbow Expert! :) I was never a fan of the Crossbow Expert feat as it didn't make sense that you could load and shoot a heavy crossbow twice (or eight times if you were an Action Surging 20th level Fighter) in six seconds. Whenever I voiced this complaint...

Stumbled across this thread and it inspired me. Below is the house rule that I came up with for my game. I think it makes things much clearer and allows you to wield two non-light (one-handed) weapons, but it also gives you a reason to use two Nick weapons. So possible combinations are two...

I'm not interested in a pedantic argument. I do appreciate your perspective and interpretation. Honestly, I don't want to be overly strict with the rules, but I like to understand what the rules actually are before I break or houserule them. If nothing else I will use this post as a reference...

No, I didn't think you get one free interaction for you move AND your action. I understand that you only get one per turn. So if you move you can open a door as your free object interaction. And that's it. You have used your free interaction... But then you take the Attack action. The Attack...

I was hoping someone might have already looked into this and be able to help me out, but I have done more digging and, honestly, I'm not super happy with what I found so far. Drawing Two Weapons I can only find equipping and unequipping weapons under the Attack action. What if you want to close...