Recent content by twisted.fate

I'm thinking I'll combine jonsey's suggestion with my idea for #1...the fey could be trying to suck the Duke and her right-hand-wizard into the Feywild through subtle means, in order to destabilize the city for the final strike. The players will have to find the perpetrators through a skill...

Hey guys, I'm dying for inspiration for my next session. It's been almost a week and a half since my last one, and I still have no clue what to run for the next one (session coming up on Tuesday, so I have a few days). I know where my campaign is going plotwise. We're in the endgame with 4/5...

It has been my dearest dream for a long time to run a scenario that goes something like... "The heavy merchant's cart you are protecting trundles slowly down the narrow road. In the distance, you can see a shape that appears to be lying on the road. As you approach, it becomes clear that it is...

I'm not sure if this has been requested, but it would be nice if we could stretch the sticky notes. I like to type up walls of text for my NPCs, and it'd be more readable if I could have the information in wider boxes, rather than really tall skinny boxes. Possibly also, could you allow for...

I love D&D. I've been playing weekly for 6, almost 7 years now, and I love it. I wouldn't stop for anything. The friendships I've forged in playing this game will last my whole life.

Hey, fair enough. I made a point of saying that it would make sense if there was a story-based reason for the restriction, and it turned out there was - the runes. That's totally reasonable, and yeah, if there were clues available that would have suggested that there was an alternative waiting...

It's so true. People who want to play stuff that's TOTALLY WEIRD BUT AWESOME GUYS REALLY, and can't/won't come up with a reasonable character and a story base for it generally just don't know what they're doing. I can handle it if someone wants to play exotic, and they bring a cool and...

Why not just tell him the campaign was over, then quietly invite everyone else back to keep going? No reason to drop a fun campaign just because ONE guy was a butthead. Better yet, when you allow players to do something unusual through house rules on the basis of them being mature enough not...

We had a guy whose favorite sentence was, "What do you mean, I can't do [thing that doesn't make sense by any of the rules]? We used to do that all the time in my other group." He left for non-game reasons before we had to kick him out. But now every time anyone mentions D&D around him, he goes...

I definitely, definitely don't want to shut the players down if they have clever ideas. I'm going to be customizing the trap a little bit anyway to make it fit the flavor of the dungeon better, so I'm going to allow ad hoc checks to shut it down...was just curious if anyone had any specific...

So, I want to toss this trap into an encounter, but have a question about disabling the trap. It says that it is activated when someone hits the tripwire, then fires 2d4 darts each round on its initiative, on random targets in range 20. As a countermeasure, a character adjacent to the tripwire...

Sure, it's one thing to have the heroes be depowered somehow. Absolutely, that's part and parcel of the genre. But typically when that happens, it's the whole team, not just one member. On top of that, in actual comics, it's generally for an explicable story-based reason. For example, Dr. Doom...

I dunno, man. This seems kind of unfair to me. First of all, why does he need to drop his hammer to get into the cave at all? Is it a huge-size hammer and a really really small cave? Second, if the hammer is the source of his power, why is the DM setting up a situation where he alone...

Matron of Fate --> Because they choose the fate of their patients Lady Shepherd --> They guide the Queen's chosen onto the path of life, so they can continue acting upon her wishes Raven Shepherd --> Same idea Queen's Mercy --> "I am Miranda. I am the Queen's Mercy. Lie still, and be grateful...

We were starting at something like fifth or sixth level, so magic items weren't totally out of the question. Also, it wasn't an insta-kill item...you had to drop the target to 0 HP, then activate the daily power of the sword to absorb the soul, which then provided a small combat bonus when...