Recent content by Reef

This isn’t a battle that needs a victory. Call it 5.5, and I’m going to know what you are referring to. If I call it 5e24, I’m pretty sure you aren’t going to be confused either. And offline, everyone can just say D&D and be relatively certain it’s good enough.

Face it, the only people who call it anything other than “D&D” are people who spend way too much time talking about it online. When I said that my group calls it 5e24, that’s mostly my fault. They all love the game, but I’m the only one who spends any amount of time talking about it online...

Since we're talking anecdotaly, when my group needs to differentiate, we call it 5e24. But there's usually no reason to specify, so it's usually all just 5e to us.

Well, for me anyway, sometimes an interesting map is the hardest part.

As much as I love fully fleshed out adventures, with motivated NPCs, stories, etc, a whole lot of interesting single-session encounters like this would be very useful. Like, when I’m trying to think of something to space out important plot points. Or, if I have a quest idea, but need an actual...

Earth 828 is not our Earth. And the Fantastic Four weren't just the Avengers in a blue uniform. From what the movie told us, they had practically united the globe. There are flying cars, so there's no reason to think Reed is hoarding his tech. They may already have cured cancer, who knows...

True. But it's not like the F4 just said "Nope. Guess you're all going to die". They said "Nope, we're going to find another solution". Which they obviously did. But the movie did show that there were a number of people still angry, even though in the end the fact that the world had immense...

I’m not sure you can make a blanket statement like that, other “people see extras as generic”. I’m sure some people do. But I’ve run three full Savage campaigns across multiple genres (including Supers), and I use Wildcards sparingly. Always have. To me, Extras are one of the strengths of...

Which is why Necessary Evil was a great setting to showcase Savage Super Powers. Most of the time, you're fighting alien soldiers, as opposed to actual enemy supers (exceptions exist, of course).

It's not? Wow...you're right! Does anyone know why? At least it's still in my library...guess just gone for new sales? But the Foundry module still seems to be listed.

If you are already accepting disappearing and reappearing characters with no explanation, and are trying to bend the game into getting to use your best stats for every roll, you might as well just ask the DM to handwave the secret doors. “Uh…I guess Bob the Rogue magically popped in long enough...

It’s not that your experiences and opinions aren’t valid. It’s just that when a new book comes out from WOTC, your opinion is uniformly: “I only have a vague idea of what this is, don’t want to research it, will never buy it, and WOTC made a mistake not catering to my experiences” And when...

I’m sorry, but this is really the answer. You chose to maximize your strengths at the cost in certain areas, and now are confronted with those. Work around it in game, don’t try to alter the rules so you can have your cake and eat it too. High charisma? Go back to town and hire an expert...

Well, really, do you actually expect them to admit they had another Xenomorph event? :)

True. But the Queen, at least, seemed to understand, based on her interaction with Ripley in the hatchery. She understood the implied threat of the flamethrower, understood that it was a promise of future action against the eggs, and also understood what it was Ripley wanted (ie. the retreat of...