Recent content by toucanbuzz

Attached are my custom DM inserts for a pirate campaign using D&D 2024 rules (Skull and Shackles, Golarian setting (Pathfinder) conversion) and reasons why this vs. that. I use a DM screen with 4 inserts on the DM side (8"x11") and 4 on the outside for players. Every campaign I do gets its own...

I bought and played these rules when running the original Dragonlance modules (5E rules) as there was an epic dragonflight battle towards the last 3rd of the campaign. Because the ruleset was foreign and advanced, my players, and me, needed a cheat sheet (attached). Disclaimer: the players had...

When most recently given choices for our next campaign between Curse of Strahd, pirates Skull and Shackles (Pathfinder conversion), or Tomb of Annihilation, my group unanimously went with pirates. Yo ho ho!

It seems simple. This guy from the Gremlins movie is hiding behind the bar. The character played by Phoebe Cates ("Kate") doesn't detect him, so effectively he's invisible to her. She's probably so distracted the DM doesn't even give her a roll to notice. Then, he pops out from his hiding spot...

Cover, none. An illusion is no more cover than fog. Fog would not stop an arrow but could interfere with line of sight. See Sage Advice 2019 on this. So, we need to look at the rules on seeing our halfling, who, until the illusion is detected, is heavily obscured because (assuming your DM rules...

Oh I actually did this, inspired from a Knights of the Dinner Table comic spoof (wherein the party finds enough of a "paper trail" to suggest their quarry had the runs, and it ends up the bad guy quarry was using a stolen spell book as toilet paper.) Just like one would expect, they were...

Research is dull, and justifying an 8 INT warrior assisting with advanced magical research (other than holding books) isn't very realistic. Modeled off a 3E book of challenges: One of the books can't be translated, perhaps in code. The party needs a codebreaker and learns through roleplay...

Could model it after Out of the Abyss. It had a spell that required very specific ingredients and mini-quests to get those. Substitute runes, a special word, a rare flower that only blooms during full moons, etc. and you've got players involved.

It's not a sin to run one campaign with one game system and then return to your favorite. I think it's actually healthy to try other game systems along with D&D.

D&D 3E, Pathfinder, and D&D 5E in some way tried to come up with the idea of earning notoriety in your campaign (called Fame/Infamy) and using it spend on benefits (called Prestige/Disrepute). I'm putting up some proposed rules for review as I haven't play tested them. They're based off a...

I've post this before, sniped from ages and years ago from some unknown source. It's 20+ different ways you can make the goal of combat vary.

Oh, I'm probably not far behind. I started with an old red box, 1E briefly but then found there was this 2E thing, then 3E, then Pathfinder, then 5E, then moved states and met some folks, now friends, who'd never rolled a d20. They're okay with the idea "make the game your own" and my house-rule...