Recent content by Paul Farquhar

A Knives out Mystery.

we have bard, rogue and artificer, but no warlord.

Maybe, but I don’t think it’s that common to play Durge as the default. My Durge was a dwarf.

It’s an issue with so-called prestige TV to drag out one story over a whole season, or sometimes multiple seasons. The pacing is often so slow. or, if the story is told over one episode, the next episode has to have new characters and a different premise. I miss the days of having regular...

The quality of the potatoes and the skill of the chief matters more than the dish. This is especially true for roast.

It would be very slow paced if you stretched Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh over a whole season. It would be like stretching a Scooby Doo episode over ten hours. The three modules together could make a season.

You really have a lot of different things you need to balance to do a D&D TV show. You need it to look "traditional" enough to be recognisably D&D, when D&D is often at it's best when it is being outlandish. And the traditional everyone running round in the local woods wearing renfaire outfits...

She wakes up and realises it was all a dream...

I'm currently playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and I've noticed that it sometimes autosaves me when I've got myself into really difficult situations. But I guess that's pretty on-brand for Dr Jones.

If people think the "vibe" of 5.5e is widespread speciesism, they have sure missed the memo!

Oh, humans are undoubtedly the most common, by a long way, in the tabletop game. The news from the BG3 statistics is they are beaten out of 1st place by half elves. That, I put down to sexiness. Dragonborn are also very much more popular in BG3 than they are in the tabletop game. Mechanically...

This is pretty much in order of sexiness of your characters appearance. Computer games are very visual and you spend a lot of time looking at your character.

True. I played a half-ogre 2/5ths of a century ago.

Tell that to the were-pig, warforged-zombie hybrid, anthropomorphic house cat, and the gith (the normal one) who were in the party last night. I don’t think your experience is common, and is probably down to the age and culture of your players.

Of the longer published adventures I’ve run, Rime of the Frostmaiden I think would make the best TV. But that’s mostly because I’mm a sucker for arctic landscapes. Being old school I would probably prefer an adventure-of-the-week format though.