Recent content by Marc17

I'd agree, but the base ideas of combined XP chart, ascending AC, intiutive saves, etc. would have fixed most of that. I think it would have been a much better game if they had applied that to the 2E 'math' and not created a whole new untested system with absurd bonus escalations built in*...

That is a lot of work for not much payback, and one of the first things I think items would be enchanted to deal with. Even in a game about resource conservation, I think it would be better to roll up it all into lifestyle expense, fumble mechanic, or some occasional mechanic somehow. As for...

Well, unless they are playing a unix based system, then all discrete numbering begins at 0.* :-) I prefer for my players to have some sort of backstory. I'll even offer XP for it. However, I have had issues with large backstory packets that the player is way too much into. This pretty much...

That's how I do it. I still use my old TSR modules and make a point to the ones I have not run before. The final treasure vault of my recent 5.24 pirate game was S2 - White Plume Mountains. IN my magical school campaign I ended up using Saltmarsh, A1 - Slave Pits of the Undercity, the BBEGs from...

All my players and myself are in our 40's or 50's and I see the same thing with everybody (including myself) picking usual characters to play. We are playing a fantasy game after all. My current Sharn character is a changeling.

Not OP, but personally, I like gnolls. Thus I ignore any all evil type things that WotC might try and force on things, like I ignore many different things that I don't like about the implied setting made by WotC (or TSR back in the day when I made orcs more modeled after ST:TNG Klingons more...

How about this, the Pit Fiend wants to lose. The party tracks down the Pit Fiend in this scenario and burst in on where it is laired, and it's a party. Large room with at least a hundred people, some masked, some in rags, probably missing commoners that have been mentioned earlier in some...

I have noticed such party compositions from much earlier than 5E. In my last game there were no human PCs and and elf was the most normal. Come to think of it, my current game may also be that way. I forget what species the paladin is. It's one of the reasons I abandoned a campaign better set in...

I'd say till they get the XP, but doesn't describe what is really going on dealing with the campaign. The current games I have and plan on running involve a lot of interaction. It will take a few games just to meet and interact with the important NPCs before they even really figure out what they...

Playing AD&D, I had a thief that got to 17th level, but that was with several levels of end of campaign level ups, so probably 14th actually keeping track of XP. Started at level 1 with the rest of the party much higher for a game of weekly 12+ hours play (it was college). Had a 3.x/PF game...

Now I want a setting with dungeon drugs. Illegal military combat dungeon drugs. Sounds like something that should be found in Sharn. (Otherwise, the faction thing was what I was planning for the urban campaign I'm trying to develop.)

Played in a couple of games since 3.5 came out. Mostly, the people playing had grown up with that system, so it was much like revisiting an old friend. The others were playing to experience a classic game. In one case, the goal was specifically to play by RAW which was with the Bone Hill module...

Ya, with all the new stuff added to D&D in races and spell casting character classes, I feel a new setting that is needed that should be more weird fantasy. A place where Strixhaven and its environment does not seem all that strange. Eberron and Sigil are probably the only one of the previous...

My groups usual solution for this sort of thing was larger battles. PCs, plus NPCs, plus freed slaves or some other escort type versus minions, lieutenants, and boss. Protect the escorts, probably take on lieutenants, deal with some traps or other hazards, to get to the boss all in one fight...

My pitch made up while reading this thread so far: Start: Divination has shown that something bad is on its way. Not worlds ending bad but enough to summon the heroes and let them get prepared. Perhaps even journey to where it is supposed to happen. Perhaps some interaction to gain resources...