Recent content by Mort

I used Roll20 heavily from about 3/2020 to late last year. But I've always had a love/hate relationship with it. It works, but there just always seem to be issues. But now, since we've been sticking to 5e, I've been using a combination of Zoom and Maps (from DnD Beyond). Zoom has just been much...

Archivist AI looks decent, but I'm showing a cost of $10-$60 per month depending on tier.

Yeah, same here. Installed it, played around with it. Lost interest so far.

Yes another reason to prefer MAPS for now. you get the battle maps for free and in an easy to use format. Worked great for the entire Planescape adventure

MAPS is DnDbeyonds current 2D VTT. It's somewhat basic, but quite functional. With recent updates, it's pretty good for running 5e/5.24, I greatly prefer it to Roll20. SIGIL is Wizards, still in development, 3D VTT. In it's current stage, is good for messing around with, and it already looks...

While not as pretty, so far the MAPS VTT on DDbeyond is orders of magnitude more useful than SIGIL. I use Maps for my online group and it's great. I've tried SIGIL a few times in the last month or so, can't even imagine running a test encounter with it, much less a session - just found it...

Was this codified anywhere? The recent WoTC adventures (the Planescape and Spelljammer ones come to mind) have advancement at 1 level per 1-2 sessions - Much faster than this pace.

Starting at high level has it's own issues. My online group kept asking to try high level (when I joined group was 5-6th and hadn't ever done higher then that), DM didn't want to do it, so I ran a multi session 15+ level adventure. I offered either they could make their own character or I'll...

One big change for monsters, especially high CR monsters, their + to initiative is MUCH higher - with 2xproficiency +Dex being a thing. With the nerfing of surprise, this SHOULD mean more monsters get to at least go down swinging. @ECMO3 were you able to track at all how often your group went...

Yeah, I'm fine with Min-Maxing, powegaming etc. as long as it's not stepping on other's toes. But dice fudging (hard to prove online if not using online dice roller) and other cheating behavior? That's not going to fly, especially as it almost always comes at the expense of the others at the table.

What does "by any means" entail? If it means creating as powerful characters as possible and looking for every advantage, well then ok, all long as the player isn't stepping on other players toes. If it means fudging dice, illegal character combinations, ability usage and/or misrepresentations...

It took me a moment to realize thar it now works against undead and then bigger the "directly harmful" language has been removed - so can command someone to move through a wall of fire for example. That is pretty big!

I usually run my own campaign, but lately I've run both the Spelljammer adventure and the Planescape adventure. In both, the great majority of the time, the group gets to long rest after 1 sometimes 2 encounters. This greatly favors the casters because they can unleash their high level, often...

Yeah, that's a good approach. I've found it helps keep players engaged. Whereas, answering "you don't know.." too often tends to cause frustration and disengagement at the table (as players start to think asking questions isn't going to get them anywhere).

I really gotta wonder why you spend so much time engaging on topics about a game you clearly don't like very much?