Recent content by UngainlyTitan

I think the short answer is that people outside WoTC do not really know. From what I remember it is distributed on different channels that do not show up on Bookscan, Amazon has reclassified it so we have no comparable before or after data. As far as I can see people are mostly projecting their...

No, I was thinking about consumables but what if I was? Now do you want to improve the efficiency of healing? In combat? Out of combat? or both? Scaling the healing will work in all cases.

In person, I use a cardboard tiles that interlink like a jigsaw (cannot remember the brand) they have a plastic surface that I can use wet or dry erase makers and predraw the map. Then bring it out at playtime.

My TV, if I am using the older TV my phone. Very occasionally the xbox I should say for the older TV chromecast and the phone.

In my opinion, it is not about lore, but perceived permission. Up until 3.x it was taken for granted that a DM could make up their own lore but 3.x had rules for everything and making rules up was frowned upon. I remember the RAW vs RAI arguments here. I remember adventure reviews where there...

The legacy of 3.x still haunts us, why restrict ones world building to the statblock. Just because they cannot portal back and forth in combat, is no reason to believe that they cannot do it by other means. It might take an elaborate ritual. They have to apply to the Bureau of InterPlanar...

I wonder, in practise, do your players use potions and wand mostly in combat or out of combat?

Not a bad healing amount, is it tied to having unspent HD to power it?

What are the limits of accepting "strain"?

Having just looked it up this is almost mechanically identical to healing surges. With hit dice mapping to the healing surge numbers. Given that a cure light or a potion is healing 25% of a characters max HP (same as healing surge) there is really no reason to also scale the healing dice by...

There is always going to be a limit on them, on the character side, healing surges. On the inventory side, potions or on the healer side slots. How is the stress mechanic different in practise from healing surges? Or can you accumulate infinite stress?

This matches up with how I imagine to be the case. I am not sure the "Franchise model" will make much difference here. I am of the opinion that Sigil was a solution looking for a problem and if the same effort had been put into D&DBeyond WoTC would be better off. I think that D&DBeyond needs a...

I wonder how they managed the heat. Maybe the handle or clip on part was not metallic?

Congratulations, you have reinvented healing surges from 4e.

The best lesson in this that I ever had, back in the late eighties, 2 friends were playing some flavour of modern micros, (1/300, if I remember correctly) and the scenario was a Soviet armoured force advancing into something vaguely resembling the Fulda Gap being met by a US armoured cavalry. 3...