Recent content by Richards

In tonight's "Middle of Elsewhere" campaign session, the PCs: Learned the shrine we'd discovered last session, which shielded a thousand-mile-diameter section of Avernus from being hit by fireballs, was powered by destroying souls of the dead (making it not useful for the city of Elsewhere)...

Pointless battle we couldn't win. Johnathan

Speaking of blocky vehicles, when I was a kid, I thought the Volkswagen Thing was the coolest car ever.... Johnathan

Back in the AD&D 2E days, my son ran a short-lived centaur PC once, and then later an aspis drone PC. Johnathan

I once ran a lizardfolk barbarian/fighter through my son's 20-level campaign. That was a lot of fun - he was definitely a "fish out of water" adventuring with two dwarves, a human, and a gnome. At the tail end of the last campaign I ran, the PCs had to infiltrate a hidden city of the undead to...

"Weird" Al Yankovic, Gary Larson, Stan Lee, and Alan Moore. Johnathan

My players are creeped out by the boneless - the animated flesh of skinned victims. They refused to have their PCs get anywhere near the boneless, bombarding them from a safe distance. And I agree with the meenlocks - I came very close to a TPK with three of the little buggers in my most...

Excuse me, waiter? I distinctly ordered my post with no guff! Johnathan

Where some would say "ruin," others would say "enhance." Johnathan

I just finished Jonathan Maberry's Relentless, so now it's on to the next in the series, Cave 13. This time Joe Ledger and the Rogue Team International is up against some newly-discovered Dead Sea Scrolls that might actually contain workable magic. (They've been up against zombies, vampires...

I'll take it anywhere from medium rare to medium well. And - don't give me any guff for this - my favorite steak sauce is good old-fashioned ketchup. Johnathan

I habitually donate half of the leave (vacation days) I earn every year, because I never take it otherwise. (My wife can no longer travel so we never go anywhere; I usually take one week off a year when my granddaughter comes to visit, and that's about it, other than taking a day of leave on a...

Well, if it's time.... Johnathan