Recent content by Pibby

I'd say for any other game the skills system would be absolutely horrible. But because the entire game by design was meant to be easily picked up by new players I think it's okay. It certainly does suck when you want to train a new skill and you've already past the beginning of the campaign but...

Does anyone have any ideas on what sort of things can be found while trekking in the Underdark? The adventure says: I plan on making a table to roll on for each day of travel and once I get a good list I'll post it here for everyone to see.

If the next published adventure is going to be Adventure Time-ish it's probably not going to take place in Forgotten Realms. There's probably going to be the Planescape excuse where people can jump in and out of the potential new world we'll get in a few months. And if that's so, then we can...

There was only one time I actually raised a creature's HP during battle (the original AP said to half it for a party of their APL), and that was when the Assassin in the party was smart enough to always get in his surprise round AND lucky enough to be first on the initiative. It turned out that...

Personally I like Theater of the Mind for most combat encounters, especially throw away or random encounters. It gives players a first perspective on the situation without awkwardly covering and uncovering areas of the map for line of sight. It also lets players imagine a more dynamic combat...

Definitely would like more player options, ideas for DMs, and more monsters. I'm not sure if I'm the minority (ignoring current poll results) but I personally dislike it when resources are spent making premade campaign material and DM options. The former because I personally don't care too much...

I am currently playing a paladin in D&D Encounters and I can say that for the most part they are essentially Fighters who use their spell slots to push for extra damage. It's not particularly important for them to concentrate on their smite spells, at least early on, since their save effects are...

Has your group actually played with the concentration rules? It doesn't drop as often as you think unless your players have really bad luck or they get into melee often. Most enemies don't have ranged attacks but the ones that do can be dealt with your melee PCs or by cleaver positioning/kiting...

I'd leave everything as is except cantrips if they're the only problem. Give each class that has cantrips slots for them instead of unlimited uses where the slots they have for those cantrips are equal to the number of 1st level slots they have (so up to 4 per long rest). Discourage players from...

I personally do not like the simulationist rules of jumping and never had. Despite that, they do make a good guideline. Whenever a PC asks me how difficult it is to make a particular jump I express the DC based on how hard I want it to be, not how hard it actually is as expressed by the book...

This sort of sounds like the way a house-run D&D Encounters setting basically works. Currently all of the adventures start in the town of Phlan and can be done in any order. I may be wrong, but I think there is a way to sign for D&D Encounter subscriptions. Once you do get the material from the...

I like both 5e and Pathfinder although it has been a while since I played Pathfinder. If I was to return to Pathfinder and DM it I would run it with an E6 ruleset. Whenever I played with friends in high level 3.P it always derailed from the original campaign and barriers of any kind meant...

I believe the feat concept is the best way to express prestige classes from a mechanical standpoint. If the character would do well with the feat then they can take it, but if they wouldn't be that much better with the feat they can just enjoy another feat or ASI and just enjoy the roleplay...

Right now I'm making a hunt the McGuffins campaign and I'll need some homebrewed or existing magic or non-magic items that essentially help the PCs traverse the dungeons LoZ style. Aside from replicating the existing items from that universe, what do you guys think would be the most fun items to...