Recent content by Seramus

Custom Vote. I would love monster ecologies! One of my favorite things was reading all the ecology entries in Dragon Magazine. Most of them have gone away, in favor of the notion that monsters should be setting generic - and I don't disagree with that, but the ecologies were still incredibly fun!

Player seduces octogenarian. Eats him!

There's also the Extended Downtime section on pg 181 where you can skip forward a chunk of time. Perfect for 'Between Sessions' if your adventure finished, and there's a couple of days (or longer) before the next adventure starts. It recommends you gain 1d6 Fear per player! My players joked...

Viscous.

As a comical and arbitrary metric, I like to ask myself "Can this class get to a Floating Castle?" Now, that doesn't mean I must take the option that can get me to a Floating Castle, but does the class have some way to overcome this problem? Some combination of spell or class ability? Maybe a...

Absolutely. It can sting a bit knowing your friends are off having game night without you, and sometimes it's even worth it to bite the bullet and buy in just so you can hang out with your friends in a social capacity. But it's alright to sit out games you won't enjoy, both for your own benefit...

Not that I've found. It's been pretty all over the place, with a few extremely restrictive DMs, a few very permissive DMs, and then a bunch floating around in the middle? I see a lot of focused games where there are thematic restrictions, or games taking place in homebrew settings that don't...

I may be getting some details wrong, but it is my understanding that @EzekielRaiden has had some EXTREMELY bad experiences with DM's on power trips in the past, and they feel very strongly that DM's should include a conversation in Session 0 about what kind of behavior and actions should be...

Usually because the GM wants the players to have fun and engage in the world cooperatively. If the GMs goal is for the players to have fun, they are not going to intentionally try to make the situation unenjoyable for the player, and will make a reasonable effort to discover what the players...

Does a + Shadowheart thread have white hair?

100% Agreed. You can involve all of your players in narrative collaboration, some of your players, or none of your players and run the game just like 5E, and Daggerheart works just fine in every scenario. It really can be run in the Traditional Auth GM style without a hitch.

I have so many horror stories I could write a small book! Got mugged at knifepoint by the DM's older brother one time. Been punched in the face by a player. One player described having sex with a sheep to get a free level up from the DM. Tipped back in a chair until it almost touched the floor...

The realistic answer is that GM's don't have any limitations, beyond the players choosing to abandon the table. But the overwhelming majority of GMs submit themselves to the illusion of limitations, both in the service of using game mechanics to generate results instead of freeforming the...