Recent content by tankschmidt

What a pleasant surprise it is to seeing this thread discussed again! My original motivation was to confirm that awarding experience points for treasure at the rate of 1 XP = 1 GP would not blow up in my face. As CapnZapp points out, the system does work pretty well until you reach the Tier...

Sweet! I look forward to backing!

I really enjoyed reading your work. It is great that each PC will have something to do each round, especially with the bonus actions available at each station. You could imagine rejiggering these rules to work with a setting like Calidar. Please keep 'em coming!

I love Wizardawn, and I am particularly fond of his World Adventure and Dungeon Delve tools that permit automatic generation of hexcrawl wilderness and megadungeon settings at the click of a button. There is a problem, however. I am not playing AD&D these days, so neither the stat blocks nor...

I was looking for a good LaTeX template to make some pretty homebrew books, and I found this one by Evan Bergeron -- https://github.com/evanbergeron/DND-5e-LaTeX-Template It looks pretty good! Now time to fool around with it...

Our group does a lot of carousing. Sometimes I think we enjoy downtime even more than adventuring. The table in DMG is starting to get a little repetitive for us, so I put together this expanded version of the carousing table. Our D&D tends to get a little gonzo, so maybe some of the entries are...

I think it's great! I definitely got annoyed when reading those personality traits -- too realistic! This would make a great background for an irritating PC.

It seems like a default assumption to the high level game is that characters will go long times without adventuring.

You are right that there are few ways in the DMG to spend the 10,000s and 100,000s of GPs that a typical adventurer will earn from level 8 or so up to level 20. But there are two options -- building strongholds and creating magical items. I interpret these two options as a compromise on the...

Yes, my analysis gives a result that is remarkably different than the table on page 38. I wonder why the designers decided to make it that way? Frankly, there really is not a mechanism for losing substantial amounts of money over the course of an adventurer's career. On the whole, material...

Thank you. Glad you like it! Absolutely feel free to add it!

“…it’s considered bad form to slaughter a party using a random encounter, since most players consider this ending to be an unsatisfying one.” -- 5e Dungeon Master’s Guide Then what’s the point? Of course, I am kidding. But it is true that 5e shipped with very few wandering monster...

You are very welcome. It was a labor of love. Thank you for the RotRL conversion! I certainly plan on stealing some of those NPCs and monsters.

Nope, this does not include magic items. So your characters could have more money by selling their items -- if you allow them to do so.

I agree entirely with you. These values are based only on the typical number of hoards assumed by the designers.