Recent content by touc

I just got a private message from a friend and gamer at my table that he's stepping away from our D&D/RPGs. It makes me sad to hear. I've been DMing for a long time, and I've seen it happen. I've burned out for periods of time. I'd like to think I run great games, but I also realize not everyone...

In AD&D, Bane's Avatar was a level 36 Cleric, 35 Fighter, 30 Mage, and 10 Rogue. Good starting point. If you're going canon from those days: His avatars tended to be possessed mortals who became handsome, black-haired men with oily looks. He had access to cast any spell but could not cast...

Are these the caves that had that battle with 15 beholders + 10 rakshasa + drow lords? Dust of Disappearance please.

It's been 18 months since our last campaign started, and now it's time to begin anew with a pirate campaign. Thought I'd share my pre-game setup, before it gets "gamerized." Always curious how others setup, but it's come a long way since it was me + some high school buddies crammed around a...

I like @Tonguez 's idea, expanding on it. Begin corrupting those around the PC. Devils can be eternal and their schemes long-term. This devil focuses its enmity on forging Contracts with susceptible NPCs the PC encounters or helps, an eternal hell of misfortune ever befalling the PC wherever...

I like it to fit in any of my settings. In Dragonlance, mercenaries over the centuries had adopted their own sign language, but without standardized schools (or folks willing to develop a sign language) you don't see it commonly elsewhere.

Then it gets to die as easily as any other mook. If you intend for a bad guy to be a "boss" battle that lasts more than 2 rounds, then the boss needs stages and defenses, such as (1) ways to shed duration spell effects, (2) regain hit points, (3) change the battlefield environment and boost...

No continuity, no plans to run a future campaign here, so it'll be a true wrap up. That's where my initial thoughts went. We went to the Dragon Age setting, and the best of them all (Origins) did a fantastic epilogue based on player decisions. My brainstorm map is forming of: And then it was...

We're all adults with good jobs, so investing isn't out of the question. I also have a dedicated game room. Framing something on the wall isn't out of the question either. Our next campaign will be pirate-based (but in a different world, no continuity), so maybe some custom sea dice would be...

As an 18-month long campaign closed with a climactic boss battle yesterday, I began thinking about epilogues as I've got a couple weeks (real life breaks) to come up with a way to satisfactorily wrap up a story that has enriched us, seen plenty of character development that I never could have...

And then, it was over. Today was the finale of a Dragon Age: Origins campaign that began in January 2024 (averaging 3-4 sessions per month). It didn't feel like 1.5 years had passed since we began, but in an epic battle, the archdemon is dead, a PC made the ultimate sacrifice to keep it that...

It's all about world-building and feeling a part of that world. I almost always have a world calendar with unique universal holidays, religious holidays, PC character birthdays, and if something epic happens or happened with a past adventuring party, a note for "that's the day the evil warlord...