Recent content by Shardstone

The problem with 5E adventures is that OSR adventures completely eclipse them in terms of quality and it isn't even really close. OSR adventure books are consistently flavorful, easy to run, easy to make your own, tell great stories, and serve as amazing toolkits. No 5E book has the usability...

Zones would allow for physical props and make theater of the mind better. Big proponent for zone-based play.

I think 5E is a game designed for modular sub-systems, but has not been supported as such. There should be cinematic and streamlined rules modules for everything from ships to spelljammers to fighting on battlefields to different kinds of skill challenges to audiences with powerful beings/rulers...

This is the kind of non-typical treasure I like. I want anything other than literal rando treasure gems and stuff. I want art with story, random but valuable monster things, magic items, manifestations of concepts, etc.

You are taking my words weirdly literally. Obviously I try and make it fun, not frustrating.

No, they expect loot, they just don't expect boring loot.

Magic items cant be cut up, are worth gold, and can be tricky to handle due to enchantments and curses. Thus, the only loot I stock dungeons with is pain in the butt magic items.

In word salad, there is no true gospel, just hard and soft suggestions.

Quantum World.

If the world isnt the same as it was 30 years ago, why keep livin'?

The books are literally world salad meant go inspire fantastical ideas in you. I am all for literary analysis, but the word salad is meant to justify all interpretations of a concept, not limit them.

211 pages...a glimpse of the nursing home.

Your metamagic spell idea is genius actually, I'm stealing that, thanks!

Vecna. I hope its a good epic format, and I really want the setpiece combats to be 10/10.

I run every game with max HP every level. It makes the classes have a significant difference in HP, and it lets me get really aggressive with my challenges. I honestly can't imagine running the game any other way now -- it just gives me so much freedom and really has amped up tension in my games...