Recent content by MarkB

One big thing that can make these effects less anti-PC is if they are also anti other creatures in the same environment. Have a chart of debilitating effects similar to those the PCs may be afflicted with, then have the monsters in an encounter be afflicted with, say, 1d4 of them chosen at...

If you want the players to recognise it as a threat beyond them, you pretty much have to go with either a familiar monster or something so huge that it gets the point across. The ancient dragon turtle from Fizban's does the latter very well.

It just seems so very situational as-is. Spending more than one death save to gain hit points seems suicidal as it can readily result in a situation where the character will die before any intervention is possible if they go down, but on the other hand gaining a single hit die's healing while...

I've finished Ghost of Yotei. Good, but not as epic or as emotionally satisfying as Ghost of Tsushima. Some of the story beats felt very forced. Also, there's something about going from the adrenaline rush of the game's close combat straight into the enforced passivity of an extended cutscene...

For my genie-patron air genasi warlock (backstory is he used to be human but after doing the Aladdin thing of freeing a genie with his last wish he's been cursed to replace him and is slowly transforming into a genie) all of his spells tend to be manifestations of violet smoke or light. His...

Just have the Trek come to the heroes. Trek does time travel all the time. Star Trek: The Heroic Voyage. The Enterprise crew, facing potential global catastrophe at the hands of a cetacean probe, are forced to try a radical solution: Travel back to the early 21st century to bring back Aquaman...

I voted for Men at Arms. Guards! Guards! establishes the City Watch series, but Men at Arms is where the wider cast of characters comes together.

Both of those things were more likely due to how assassins work, though. I think a good option would have been to give the assassin some disposable hired goons whose brief was to lock down the party's healer to prevent interference with the kill, but whose CR was too low for them to be...

To be fair, they're probably operating at a significant loss just showing a movie to that small an audience in the first place. I do remember the time I went to see The Force Awakens in 3D near the end of its run. I'd seen it in 2D when it first came out, but figured, hey, might as well...

I'm still playing Ghost of Yotei, having a good time with it so far. I'm just starting in on the second major 'chapter', not that they're set in a particular order - you choose which particular thread to pull on in which order. I'm glad I did the Kitsune first as that region unlocks most of...

As I interpret the spell, fleeing targets would not only fail to avoid cliffs, they would actively seek them out if available. The spell specifies moving away using the fastest means possible, and there are few if any faster means of movement in the D&D ruleset than falling.

My impression was that this was their intended function - that the facility had been deliberately buried, and these were fans intended to unbury it at some future, post-apocalyptic date. So, actually a poor example - this was tech specifically built to withstand the test of both time and nuclear...