Recent content by Mustrum_Ridcully

Ever since I saw the 4E cosmology, I liked it the most and am mostly taking that as a base assumption for my ideas. I think the main reason is that I really like the Feywild and the Shadowfell. I generally vastly prefer the ideas of designing any planes as plausible adventuring locations, like...

That reminds me of something from Night's Black Agent (or Gumshoe as underlying core system?) had: You had Investigative skills where you don't roll for. If your have an investigative skill that fits the situation, you tell the GM and he gives you the relevant clues. You may be able to spend a...

I tend to prefer static DCs for fixed tasks. But I also like to know how hard something is relative to the players, so being able to say something like "A Paragon Tier hard task is DC 25". If that tells me they should be scaling a smooth surface at an angle of 90° to 110° or beat down admantite...

I am also not sure I would call that a railroad, but I really don't like pure puzzles and riddles, either. They always involve guessing what the person creating the puzzle or riddle was thinking. "What has 4 legs in the morning, two during the day, and 3 in the evening" is a nice riddle, but...

I seem to remember reading this one, or about it, because i don't seem to have it. Maybe I borrowed it from another player? The part where you describe how various factions and NPCs are mentioned throught the text reminds me of how the whole implied setting worked. You rarely got a full...

It never occured to me that the plot "your stuff got stolen" was particularly common, I've not had any adventures involving that yet. I definitely do not like that premise if that's a pre-ordained plot. If it occurs by happenstance because some thief really used his thievery skill succesfully in...

Today, I played a bit of Cleared Hot. A helicopter action game. Don't know what the genre is actually called, but you have a top-down view and fly a helicopter over the ground, evading enemy fire and mowing down your enemies (a bit gory, for the level of detail at least). A nice little game for...

But does that mean that more rules need to be devoted to the non-combat stuff, or just that combat needs less rules and everything else is fine at the level it is?

I think the players I played with never dumped INT. You wanted the Combat Expertise chain, it had some very useful feats to get extra AoOs and get your melee guys a +4 bonus to attack! But whether you got 3 skill points per level or 1 skill point (or 4 respectively 2 if you're human) per level...

I don't really know enough about the situation and the way you communicated, but as a player, I could see the following reason why it feels like a railroad: You present an option to escape a certain situation by traveling to a place that only leads to the Feywild The first option that comes to...

Paramount+ exists in Germany. But Paramount+ was not rolled out immediately here, so we had for example some shows on Netflix and some on Amazon Prime until they rolled out in Germany. I think here it can also be bundled with Sky, or something, I don't know exactly, never tried that route.

Wasn't it a bit more complicated than that - yes, a spell scaled with caster level -but the DC was based on spell level and caster ability modifier, so a 3rd level Fireball was easier to resist than a 5th Level Cone of Cold. Both deal the same amount of damage dice (at least until 10th level...

It seems the directional awareness still allows for travel, you aren't instantly there. But you aren't searching for it, you know the direct route. So it can't be hidden, but maybe the most direct route really sucks and you want an indirect route where you don't need to go by the Tarrasque-Nado...

It should be noted that Swift Action came very late in the 3rd Edition life-cycle, and I think it was mostly relegated to spells, that cost precious spell slots, so the impact wasn't as strongly felt as if it had started at first level. I agree with EzekielRaiden that having a standard bonus...

Not every story has a clock running, though. If we get the job to secure an artifact from a dungeon, there might be no time table at all, the people want the artifact as soon as possible. But they want it, a dead party and no artifact does nothing for them... Some stories might have clocks...