Recent content by Vael

Leaders that have an ability to activate multiple allies may find minions better as there's more targets to find. 3 or 4 minions getting individual attacks that deal half damage are just trying to chip away single HP/Armor and don't care. I also think if you're planning multiple waves, minions...

I've become a fan of Sous-Vide for steak preparation, then a very quick char on a cast iron pan. I can get a solid medium-rare/rare steak consistently.

I'm making cream puffs for my cousin's engagement party tomorrow, and I tried my first infused pastry cream, I cold brewed cream with Earl Grey tea overnight and the resultant pastry cream is really good. Still have to make the Choux buns, but the fillings are good.

Daggerheart Session 6: God of Lies interrupts dream

My LGS has a discord server to organize games. I DMed a Daggerheart one-shot, and have joined a DnD Rime of the Frostmaiden Campaign. The shop / boardgame cafe doesn't charge DMs for running games there. I also ran Light of Xaryxis for a comic book store, they asked for DMs to submit a...

Yeah, Eberron as a setting can support a lot of campaign options, it's one of the things I find so compelling about it. To the point where campaign frames are a good way to focus and limit the scope of an actual Eberron campaign. Unfortunately, Keith does not own Eberron, so any official...

I wouldn't mind another set of cards, mainly the ancestries, but yeah, the price of the KS was a bit much.

It's Canadian Thanksgiving, and I took charge of the turkey this year. So while I didn't do an overnight brine, I did do a wet one for a few hours, following by spatchcocking the bird and rubbing it down with a paste of butter, roasted garlic, sage and rosemary (and salt and pepper). End product...

The thing is that the TRON Legacy soundtrack is an all-timer, to the point where I almost consider the movie second to the soundtrack. It's like an album length video. So no shade to TRON Ares, but that was never matchable. And ... I dunno, I didn't care for this. Gillian Anderson was wasted as...

A lot of the time I'm running pre-published adventures, so ... I guess that's planning everything out, only I didn't do it? Obviously, I ad-lib and alter on the fly, but I'm running off of someone's planning session.

Mike Underwood is credited as a designer for Drakkenheim, and that has done a lot to up my interest. He's a great follow, his Youtube channel is chock full of a lot of great advice on running and brewing for Daggerheart.

Yeah, I see why Campaign 4 had to go with 5e, there's just a need for more material for DMs, adversaries and environments in particular. Yes, reskinning is pretty easy, but I still want a bigger toolbox to draw from.

I've heard good things about the 5e book. What I know about the setting is intriguing, but admittedly I wasn't looking for a Dark Fantasy setting at the time for 5e. I'll be interested in seeing how they adapt it to Daggerheart.

5 Sessions in, and Daggerheart continues to work. My players have said that they feel really powerful and cool, and things just seem to be working well at the table. We use poker chips for Hope, Fear, Stress, HP and Armor, so there's less writing and scratching off as damage is taken. I do feel...

Looking forward to this. Not a Critter, haven't watched any of the Critical Role campaigns. But I really enjoyed Vox Machina, so I'm interested in seeing this.