Recent content by Trurl

I'm disappointed by people demanding more feats. I hope that at most we get 10 well considered feats. I'm also disappointed by so many people playing half-elfs. It wouldn't be so bad if a person playing a half-elf had an interesting story about their parentage, but in my experience...

Does anyone know of good variants? I'm not ready to simply do milestone progression. I like the spirit of the experience system for Dungeon World but adapting it seems like a lot of work.

A part of me would want to ban some of the stranger races for the setting. A player hiding the fact that he/she is an elf would remind of Star Trek in a fun way. Truthfully I always bend to the wishes of players when they're creating their characters and then I get over it.

What rule did you create for the shield drop?

That's a good thought about giving them a break. They're two days out from the Drow outpost and haven't eaten since their escape. They'll need a small victory like getting equipment essential to their characters back. I suppose if I want to open up the encounter at Sloobludop I could give...

Is it just me or do the players have no agency in Sloobludop? The way I read it is that they get captured by an evil faction, get captured again by a slightly better faction, and then watch a bunch of crazy stuff happen while being positioned to be sacrifices. Unless I'm reading it wrong, why...

One of my concerns about dming OotA is that my players are all low level. Escaping from a Drow prison seems like too high stakes of a way to learn how to play, and having the characters to a tutorial mission sacrices the ease of PC introductions that OotA offers. Luckily, I thy hink I've...

My big problem with doing a maze is how to present it. Just draw the maze on a giant grid makes navigating the maze trivial. On the other hand, my players and I have weak theater of the mind skills and doing a maze that way would just be frustrating to them. My compromise is drawing a...

This might not be the thread for this, but I'll soon be DMing for a group of people that have largely never played Dungeons and Dragons & Dragons before and I'm trying to decide between Out of the Abyss and Princes of the Apocalypse. Are there any points that should point me in one direction...

Thanks! Can PCs help eachother to get an advantage on passive perception? I don't see why they wouldn't be able to, but allowing it would allow them to get a +5 to their PPs most of the time if they wanted it.

Does passive perception act as a floor for perception checks?