Recent content by RangerWickett

I actually want to see someone build a game that starts with, "Okay, how do we make 20th level fun," then works backwards from there to get low-level to also work.

edit: Nevermind, someone else made the same comment about paper. There were some Jedi scrolls at the end of the The Last Jedi. But that's it, I think.

EN World published a steampunk D&D campaign! It's kinda silly to ask if D&D can handle it.

If there's a civilization anywhere able to detect our planet's complex molecules or whatever, odds are they'd already have noticed us any time over the past billion years. So since they haven't come knocking, that suggests to me they don't exist, or else planets with complex molecules aren't...

If LOST had ended after one season, we'd all hail it as a great meditation on the nature of mystery and the challenge of knowing the lives of those around us.

I'd forgotten I'd used those names. Lester, Dustin, Emily, and Anna were classmates of mine in middle school. I wonder if they'll Google their names some time and wonder what the hell this is all about. Good luck with the huge monster that is Cauldron-Born.

The way you get the most attacks per turn is money. You hire a lot of peasants and give them crossbows. Tell them to ready actions to shoot when you tell them.

On your 'diversify your encounters' note, I had a bittersweet version of that yesterday when I had the climax of the campaign I've been running for a year. The short short version is that the priest queen villain was trying to bring Noah's ark to her ziggurat so she could draw upon the power of...

I ran a Pathfinder campaign where the whole party was paladins. It was really great, with wonderful clashes of ideology of what it means to be 'good.' And yeah, necessarily, everyone had a different vibe. There was the artist who wielded a glaive like an oversized paintbrush, but whose focus...

Priceless. This makes me rather sad. I hope the new player had a good time.

It's been a while. What determines how many grenades they get?

Thanks for sharing. That was great. Good gaming to you!

Organizational culture and leadership matter. I wrote the adventures to show the Flint police as being vaguely NYPD-ish: reliable if you fit in as a 'respectable' member of society, but also many of them are willing to be selfish, ego-tripping a-holes against anyone they see as beneath them. A...

I stumbled back upon this thread through a search for 'urbanist warlock.' Do you have any stories to share from the game?

My current campaign involves one nation. There are like eight 11th level priests, one 17th level one, and a couple angels kicking around and CR 13 monsters roaming the wastes and a lich gathering an army of the dead the next country over. Seems complex enough.