Recent content by Tormyr

If the concept of a little bit of tech interests you, the steampunk/arcanoscientific bits of the Zeitgeist campaign setting might be fun. As for me, I have spent the entire lifetime of 5e running three long-form campaigns: Age of Worms, War of the Burning Sky, and Zeitgeist: The Gears of...

My evacuation has ended. I was not able to work much as we were bouncing around from place to place. With returning home and things starting to return to normal, I am getting back to work. I'll post when I have an estimate for Godmind.

Here is the 5e text. Third Hand (2014) You are an expert in combat with whips and can use it like an extension of your hand. You gain the following benefits: You gain proficiency with whips. You can grab an object within 10 feet of you as a bonus action with a successful DC 10 Dexterity check...

Definitely how the PCs at my table behaved, but they have gotten tired of the Ob shenanigans and have started showing less restraint toward Ob members, especially middle management, from about adventure 7 onward. 😅

Also, I botched the edit in other ways. It should have said: Not technically RHC as written, but book 4 has a Risuri spy selling info that should have gone to Risur.

Not technically a spy as written, but book 4 has an ex agent selling state secrets.

Thanks. Hopefully things stabilize within the next month or two. Unless something else comes up, I'm working on Godmind today. The current project is checking the CR of creatures.

We are fine, thanks. There's just a lot of instability now as we are temporarily living in various places other than home for an unknown period of time.

I'm just getting back to working on it, but my time is limited. A security situation a few weeks ago caused us to have to change countries and live in temporary accommodations. I'm dealing with spinning up a new place to live and online school for the kids.

Yeah, I had just noticed that. Swapping Multiattack for Pack Tactics lowers CR to 1/4 using the 2014 guidance, unless Pack Tactics is worth a lot more now. And going with what you said, that just makes the 32 HP look more weird on a "CR 1/4" creature. On the other hand, a bunch of toughs will...

I don't know if it has been addressed in the last 20 pages, but if you crunch the numbers using the 2014 DMG, the orc is actually CR 1. That move from +4 to +5 attack bonus gives it an offensive CR of 2. In this case, the move to being a Tough/Thug makes the basic orc weaker, but it also aligns...

How big is your physical table? You can run small encounters at each important location and narrate/compress the spaces in between. With a screen, you can pan the screen back and forth if the tokens on are the screen as well or just zoom out and use smaller markers for all the creatures.

I feel like one of the big takeaways is, "AC is king." In 2014 an effect from a hit usually also required failing a saving throw. Now, the effect happens when you get hit. If you don't want to suffer the effect, don't get hit. This also means that monsters that are easy to hit but have a lot of...

Enters thread. "Nope!" Exits Thread That's some nice early to mid level nightmare fuel.

I do wish they had kept in the explanations for when armor was more than just the dex bonus. It makes it easier to make modifications and see how magic interacts. Using a two-handed weapon? Need to doff the shield. Does heat metal work? Check if it is using metal armor or a metal weapon. But...