Recent content by Seramus

That's a LOT of Warlock. I suppose I should start trying to find a pact partner!

Same. I look at what RNG gives me and try to improv the best story I can out of it. It's more likely to be a trolls-around-mutton situation than a straight fight. And when fights do happen, the enemy flees when reasonable to do so. Consequently, this does mean I tend to lean on Deadly encounters.

Sven has outright expressed similar sentiments. And on an anecdotal level, I still have a little cackle whenever I hear someone coming from DoS2 complaining about the lack of flashy effects for martial attacks.

I love BG3 and D&D both, but I honestly think the 5E system held BG3 back. It's a strange alchemy where the brand brought more people to the game, but then the game grew to something far greater.

Versatile: Any weapon or improvised weapon you attack with can deal 1d8+1 damage. Dagger? Tavern chair? Mug of ale? Rock? Fireplace poker? 1d8+1.

Several times. Most of them were just for some quirky reason like "ALL GOBLINS!!". A tiny number were for theme games like "All Dragonborn in a Dragonborn empire deciding what to do about the savage races of the world". And once, one single time, everyone picked Half Elves in an ordinary game...

Admittedly, I'm one of those weirdos who never use consumables. I always save them for a "more important fight" then still not use them in the final battle.

20. Maximize initative. Another obvious one, but it goes beyond merely giving your entire party a "free turn" against your enemies. Since you can switch back and forth between characters, it allows you to set up completely devastating combination moves. The old Black Hole + Haste + 4x Fireballs...

15. Use Sanctuary liberally. So many fights can be blunted by having a high AC/Save character with Sanctuary cast on them walk into danger and trigger the fight. Yes, they do take splash damage and can be battered around, but it will OFTEN give your party a full turn of free offense on your...

Strahd's difficulty massively varies based on how a DM plays him. I almost slaughtered my 10th level players after my Strahd used hit and run tactics to grab the Staff of Power they never found. I almost had him use Sergei's Armor since his lore as a soldier is well established, but at that...

Abjurer 11/Cold Sorcerer 1 doesn't come with the dignity and accolades of beating Honor Mode with Abserd. :cool:

Go for the Abserd Achievement, focusing on having as much HP, AC, and damage retaliation items as possible (including Tempest Cleric). You can stack a frightening number of them, some triggering on hit, others on miss, and being Abserd gives you lots of class specific dialog solutions. Being a...

Interestingly, people have apparently attempted to bring Earth tech to the Forgotten Realms and had it woefully malfunction, sometimes explosively, thanks to Gond keeping the realms mostly tech stagnant (Lantan aside). I even remember a Candlekeep post where Ed joked about Larloch wanting and...

I believe Ed clarified that the Forgotten Realms in question are all the ancient fallen empires in the setting, like Netheril. "Forgotten Realms" all over the place, with budding civilizations built near / on top of their remains.