Recent content by Shadowdweller00

Excessive talking at helpless players 😥

Fairly simple to convert to whatever local deities you want to use at least. For example a Sea Wolf class that is Luskan-themed using maybe Tempus, Tymora, and Waukeen instead. The number of fictional worlds that use Norse crossover deities IS surprisingly large...

C.f. "5. Banished. Your people cast you out for supposed crimes." With some equivocation for "supposed" (i.e. highly dubious claims to) comedic effect.

"Well...I was banished to the elemental plane of Ice Cream after my parents were killed by ninjas. And as everyone knows, ice cream correlates with heat stroke. So can I roll to make the giant suffer from heat stroke?" GM: "..."

I got caught in quicksand once; when I was young and had been taken clamming. Almost cost me my boots!

Want out of Chaos, thanks.

I like the flavor of the necromancer. But the Deathwalk ability makes me pause a bit. It seems like... interrupt the current adventure to go on a time consuming side quest to save a companion.

I don't know, 3 times per day ignore damage for a round seems quite powerful to me. As do some of those spells

So tonight I finally got around to trying out (running) a Shadowdark game. And OMFG, combat was SOOOOO fast and smooth. It was unbelievably refreshing.

Unanswerable. Not only campaign dependant; but also because PCs in many campaigns start out unexceptional but become exceptional as time and experience and wealth and various boons or character alterations are accrued.

Not ever at my tables. As DM, I consider myself to have failed at prep if a round takes longer than 10 minutes. And I begin to think that something's wrong when rounds take longer than 5 minutes. Combat still takes a while - but usually the greatest time sinks are taking initiative and...

Why play a dice game to begin with if combat is fun for you without actual risk? Incapacitating effects shift the game focus from monotonous combat rounds to finding ways to suppress or avoid sources of, protect against, or cure the incapacitating effect. For example: Sneaking past the...

The removal and progressive nerfing of save-or-suck spells certainly sucks the fun out of the game. As does the whining of overgrown children who can't cope with adversity. Powerful game effects like petrification, paralysis, old school energy drain, mental domination drive stories, create...

You are of course free to like or dislike whatever you choose. And I don't know if matters to you at all, but: Group trends and customs are part of what helps to establish common identities amongst particular cultures or populations. Not all collective evaluation or stereotyping is done to...

Don't have any comment on the other thing - but I can't say as I've ever personally gamed with that 90%, if THIS is true.