Recent content by orangefruitbat

Some good ideas here. Some of the changes I made: 1) run all three set-piece encounters when the party arrives at the appropriate town. There is no reason to throw two of them away, plus it makes the giants seem like a continuing threat. 2) I changed how the conches work so that the party needed...

This is perhaps the single most annoying feature I found in the 2024 rules, when you have a World Tree barbarian throw out dice of temporary HP every single round after a combat ends until everyone in the party gets max temp HP.

I loved the City Beyond the Gate adventure. So much fun - and you can meet Dr. Who (the Tom Baker incarnation).

I plan to use it with Dolmenwood (which should arrive any day now...). The trick is to not use it as its own hex crawl (because it's a little bit too weird), but to add bits and pieces here and there like a fairy spice.

Could be an Eldritch Knight who just spams Thunderwave and Burning Hands - after all, that's pretty much how I played Witcher 3.

BECMI - one of our group made it to level 36 and became immortal. Sure I was probably generous with treasure and XP as DM, but we generally played by the rules. Would have been Grade 7-8 and nothing to do in the summer but play DnD for 8 hours a day. Sigh...I miss my old life.

If it's lean cut (like a tenderloin), then definitely rare. When there is more fat/marbling, then med-rare. If there is some muscle tissue (like entrecôte), then I need to go up to medium. With regard to seasoning, I usually go with just pepper and salt, but have been known to enjoy some...

If you want to have weapon breakage, it should be to make combat more exciting, unpredictable and cinematic, rather than just 'realistic'. 5E doesn't do realism very well at all and there are other RPGs that can create that flavour of game better (i.e., WFRP, Rolemaster, Dragonbane, etc.). I...

The Vrock is level 5, so Hypnotize won't work on it. And for level 3 or less opponents, you still need to cast the spell (and sustain it every round), with a DC 11. So the average witch PC probably has a 60% chance to cast it or sustain it. Odds are, you will only get one round of hypnosis in...

Actually, the PDFs were delivered basically on time. Funding closed for the initial kickstarter on Sept 9, 2023 with a projected fulfilment date of Sept 2024. Looking on Backerkit, pre-release versions of all three core PDFs were available in Oct to Dec 2023 (text complete, but still missing...

That's a pretty scary stat-block, but I have one question.

Our group's biggest problem with carousing is that we keep getting banned from the only tavern in town...hard to carouse when you can't buy a drink.

Dragonbane is another game on my want to play list. It's really pretty fantastic.

Put me down in the definite No camp. They slow down combat too much, are gamey and as DM tracking lots of creatures, are a PITA. In fact, I dislike them so much that they've killed 5.5 for me and I've gone back to 5.0 (if I'm not playing OSE or Shadowdark).

If this is the sort of political inaccuracy that bothers you, then this might not be the right movie for you :) I on the other hand, think this could be the greatest cinematic achievement since Citizen Kane. Though admittedly, it would have been great to see QE2 and Barak Obama battle drug lords...