Recent content by Reynard

The way you are all ignoring Jakandor is just proof of its inevitable release.

Rime is not being marketed as an introductory product. I have seen a lot of people on various fora and social media complaining that a new DM would have trouble running it "out of the box." Good. They should get heir feet under them with the multiple products geared toward brand new players and...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but: Spelljammer is dumb. Obviously, I kid. But boy do I hope they give it a major makeover and tie it to planar travel rather than crystal spheres and phlogiston. Sail the Astral Sea, fighting off dreadnaughts and Githyanki pirates is so much more...

This is why I am making the PCs the authorities. Or, at least, an arm of the authorities in the form of the Council of Speakers.

The cinematic trailer for Baldur's Gate 3 shows that you don't need Spelljammer to make Nautiloids cool.

^^^^This.

See, this is why I try and point people to semi-serial ensemble television as the best example of how to model RPG campaigns: characters are defined by a few (usually stereotypical) aspects at the beginning, so they have a role to fill, but real depth and backstory and, well, character emerge...

I did not realize until these recent Rime threads that it was so common for people to be upset at the loss of a 1st level character. I don't get it. You haven't had enough time to get to know them. Just bury them and start another. Adventuring is dangerous business. Heroes are the ones that...

I am hoping they find a way to marry Spelljammer and Planescape into a single "cosmic D&D" meta-setting (PlaneJammer FTW!!). Not that I need WotC to do that for me, but it would be nice to have some of the leg work done for me when I want to Go Big and save or destroy multiple universes at once.

A while back I switched Inspiration to act like a shared pool where if a player used Inspiration a point of DM Inspiration went into my pool, which goes back into the player pool when I use it. It is kind of inspired (ha!) By the 2d20 Momentum/Threat system. It works well enough i won't go back.

They should. Otherwise what's the point? It should be about choices informed by althea things that have happened up until that point. Is one PC's love interest in one town and another's rival in a different town?

Aside: still a baffling decision.

I like it, though I'm not sure what effect an alignment change would have. I don't use alignment for anything mechanical these days, so I think an oath with a real permanent consequence if broken is better.

I have told my players, among whom there are a couple FR fans, that this is MY interpretation of Icewind Dale and there are sure to be conflicts with existing lore. None of them have refused to play so I think it will be fine.

Yeah, it explicitly says the other of the 2 is no longer available once you choose. I plan on using Cold Hearted Killer but having Dannika and her chwinga hunt be a lighter element that pops up from time to time. She strikes me as a good potential romantic interest NPC, and the chwinga as a...