Recent content by Stormonu

I am absolutely shocked Human is in the lead. I didn't think so many people would want to play human characters in a fantasy game if given the choice.

In a black whirlpool at the center of the bleak, churning waters of the flooded level is the Aboleth* Ghyrtnovan. The water cultists summoned him, seeking knowledge and power to defeat the Earth cultists. Though the water cultists were careful to bind it, Ghyrnovan proved too cunning. It...

I will say that in Birthright, you could be a King, Archbishop or Archmage and be 1st level ruling a domain. You'd probably fall to the Gorgon, but even the 2E DMG mentions that a King could be a 0-level character. I can't imagine myself having the leader of a country being a 0-level or 1st...

I've also discovered some '70s era books on mythological creatures that seem to indicate Gary might have drawn the colored dragons from Indian (Vedic?) folklore. Green dragons living in trees and breathing toxic gas. Black dragons dwelling in swamps and having a line of yellow, acidic breath...

What alignment would that be - Lawful Evil? Just make a good D&D game guys, stop trying to flood it into areas where it's just money down the drain.

I don't think I'd burn a whole session on it - nobody likes "homework" forced on them, and I could see some players seeing it as that, especially taking away from their gaming time. But I'd certainly be willing to reward players if between sessions they wrote up an NPC or monster that could...

Oh, you might be able to - but you'd have to make your own rules for it; the "vehicle" rules in Saltmarsh and Spelljammer for ship-to-ship is anemic at best (not to mention, not part of the "core" rules). Those vehicle rules are very narrative based, glossing over maneuvering, positioning and...

Pure and simply, the community has become too wound up about balance and expedience. Can't have a pet monster or follower trivialize an encounter. Extra followers skew carefully crafted fights, making them less "epic" - or "take too long" because of number of combatants. Why have 4-10 hp...

Too much magic, artificers, magitech like lightning rails and New York (Sharn). I suppose when it didn't spread to other settings, I started to be comfortable with it being limited to Eberron and could swing with it. I guess part of my initial fear/anger was with as much as they were putting...

5E's poor handling of mounts, pets, familiars and the like grates on me. They've become handicaps that have to be poke-balled to work, or a "long rest" to resurrect them from the dead to put back into the game. There's got to be a better way than using the bland stat blocks of the "beast of...

I wanted to do nothing with it when it first came out. I can't recall when that started to change, but my "try out" was to run a LOST-style game on Xendrik - purposely away from Khorvaire as I wasn't familiar with the main setting and needed a "clean slate" area where I could learn and build as...

I want those battlemats!

Well, just as you and I started at different points with different interactions to VSM, those starting with this set will get their expectations started here - and that will define their attitude towards the VSM aspect of casters and such.

VSM was ditched for B/X and BECMI in the '80s. The game was fine without it.