Recent content by renbot

Unacceptable!! JK. Take you time. I will likely buy it soon anyway since I like having lots of material to draw from and I seem to believe that I am made of money.

Please let us know what you think of it when you have absorbed some of it. It is on my wishlist but I haven't pulled the trigger yet.

The I-can-stop-anytime-I-want-to monk

Per Kelsey: How often should thieves be able to sneak up and backstab a creature? Usually at least once per combat, and potentially more times if the thief invests the effort in hiding out of sight and sneaking around to an unaware creature. I don’t feel this should be given as readily as in a...

This might be a silly question, but I do have a question about carousing. Several options on the carousing outcome table inflict a penalty of "__% of your total wealth." Now is that before or after the gold spent on carousing is subtracted? It might seem obvious that it is after since the...

D'oh! I should have assumed you already had one...sometimes I'm not very bright.

Finally got my die-hard "D&D or nuthin'!" group to try both Shadowdark and Daggerheart and they (surprise!) really liked both. Now SD is something we bust out when not everyone is available for the "primary" D&D campaign and it has worked really well.

I'd back it!

It is, but I'm still allowed to cry a little bit, right?

Something like Magic of Incarnum or the Pact/Binder of Vestiges would be cool.

Until this thread I didn't realize how many games were actually out there! Now if only days had more than 24 hours and weeks more than 7 days...

OK, I'm a forever DM of like 40 years and I needed to hear this! My campaigns usually have a "save the world!" vibe from early on and in my current campaign I found myself being exhausted by the arms and intelligence race vs. the team of "bad guys." So tonight I stepped off the DIRE CONSEQUENCES...

I've only run one game, but the players kept two staggered torches going. I had my tablet on one stand and my phone on another, both running Torchlight timer. They reported that it added to their anxiety, which was music to my ears as a DM.

I guess this is as good a thread as any to ask for SD advice. I noticed that the whole torch/threat of darkness was less dramatic that I expected. Even with having a torch go out it was pretty easy for a party member to light a new one. I made it a DC 12 check if they weren't in combat and DC 15...

It ran great but I chickened out and leveled them to 3 so that there was less chance of a TPK (I was trying to win them over to SD and killing them all would not have helped with that). It turns out it was a little too easy for level 3 characters but they also got really luck rolls and neither...