Recent content by Seramus

Killer Jackalope of Caerbannog. Arrrghhh!

Side Note: I’m definitely pleased that the current top three all spent time in Ravenloft.

I loved the heck out of it. Though I will grant you that 2E was quite a rollercoaster of both wonder and weirdness.

1992 Tales of the Lance states that Takhisis was called Tii'Mhut (p117) and Paladine was called Bah'mut (p113) by the people of Istar. That would be firmly 2E territory.

AO wouldn’t do anything unless Vecna was poised to succeed at some Die Vecna, Die level shenanigans. Heck, AO didn’t even step in to stop Acererak who would have massively imbalanced the Realms.

If Acererak can get to the Realms, so can Vecna, but probably only as an avatar or sneaky presence. But as others have noted, Avernus is not in Realmspace in the first place, so it’s not an issue.

Consent. Use Speak with Dead to ask the corpse if they would be willing to rise up and defend the ancestors of their village, etc. Once you have their permission, clean the corpse into a nice skeleton and Animate Dead. Always retrieve the remains when the skeleton breaks and use Mending to...

100% of the games I run, play in, or have seen at FLGS use feats. I intellectually know there are games that don’t use feats, but that’s like China to me.

Everyone knows Vecna and Strahd, but Lord Soth has a much more compelling and tragic story, steals every scene he shows up in, and even has his own Gold Box game.

Wizards over Sorcerers for supreme spell selection and tons of ritual spells. Unless you go Divine Soul, which opens up a giant can of Swiss Army Knife.

Downtime means the bad guys are making progress. Can’t have that!

@lowkey13 has his own Paladin Archetype. At level 3 you take the Oath of Denial, which requires you to stop being a paladin and refunds your those three levels to be chosen again.

Disagreement is exactly what happened! I was quite surprised. But either way, I’m trying to disengage from the conversation at this point. They have the right to enjoy the game in whatever manner they wish.

Our argument was about someone who was falling, and you said they couldn’t attempt all three goals. Just one of them, which was mutually exclusive with the other two. That’s how we got onto the whole “only 10 flips, or 0 flips” thing.

That’s my definition of degrees of success. If you have any number that is not 0 flips or 10 flips, you are using degrees of success as I define it. So when people tell me they don’t use degrees of success, they’re either using a different definition and I have to gingerly suss that out from...