Recent content by Mustrum_Ridcully

No, player and DM work together to find a good solution for the idea they had. I think that's inevitable, because you do this every time. Sometimes it's easier, sometimes it's harder. Before the player created his Knight character that lost the love of his life to an assassin's guild in a...

Earthdawn and Torg seem to be 'old' games that used a lot of mechanical ideas that feel like they come from 'modern' game design inventions...

Well, you work with the players. Presuamble, you have a finite amounts in your campaign, so you might even have to allow shardminds, just one, for the one player that likes the idea, and no yuan-ti at all, because no one asked for them. Of course, maybe it doesn't actually have to be a...

A big German tradition: Watching Dinner for One. I think raclette or fondue is also pretty popular as the dinner of the day, often inviting over friends. (So a bit in contrast to Christmas, which is more to come together as family, this is for friends). An East Frisian tradition are...

I've played Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Halfings, Kobolds, and I've played pretty much every class in some form or another over the years. They don't really inspire me anymore, at least not reliably for every campaign (the ones I haven't played are the ones that didn't even inspire me for the first...

Worldographer can generate hex maps, but I've only really used it for manually creating the map itself, I used its predecessor dungeongrapher (IIRC) for my Knights of the Silver Dawn/Nerath/4E campaign. But I've not really spend much time trying out the generator features, the initial results...

"More Likely" and "Less Likely" is not the same as "intimidate is clearly the only thing that will work here". Maybe I particularly want to lessen the insecurity of the coward, to be confident going with my approach is the best option, I'll make it safer!

Rotating DM "duties" can help a lot, I think. The two gaming groups I was part of in my life always had changing GMs, each running their own campaign,and they run concurrently. Some simply used published adventures, others homebrewed stuff. And sure, some are better at it than others, and some...

Half-Dragons, Dragonborn, Dracha, Draconians and what they are called all serve the same role - play a dragon-themed being that's compatible for play. I don't think most players would be worried much if you can play one or the other, but if you can't play anything like that at all, it's...

I never used any romance rules, but I had "romance" in my longest running campaign, a 4E game centered on the idea of restoring the Nerath Empire and fighting off a group of Far Realms that wanted to basically destroy the material world because it its rigid (and for them, alien) structure is...

2 and 3 is the same for Intimidation (especially if you happen to have the same modifier and DCs). And what reasons in the fiction are there for there to persuasion to fail but intimidation to work? How do you communicate this in game so that the players understand this and can take this into...

It seems, I am not smarter than the average Dire Bare.

I mean, in the real world, people can only sprint for so long, so realistically, you should be able to use something like dash only a few minutes or so, but there aren't actually rules specifically for that. I think such details can easily be glossed over, if it needs a bonus action already...

I have an idea for that for my 4E inspired Arcane Evolved homebrew: You choose a primary and a secondary stat and the rest uses the regular column. I currently even include a full random character generation that selects classes and class specilization, species and what you pick for primary and...

And I would definitely disagree with that. It's highly debatable that IQ tests test more than your ability to score on IQ tests, but you can definitely train for them and be better at them - either that means you can improve your Intelligence, or you can't make any conclusions from IQ Tests. (or...