Recent content by Wolfram stout

Thank you OP, I have been contemplating opening a thread like this myself. Specifically I am looking for something inbetween Shadowdark and 5e. Something like 5e without subclasses.

Add in logging what you did, in 3 different places, and then prep reports on the logs to send to managers high up enough not not understand 1st level workflows…. I work in compliance for investment company.

Wow what a conclusion to jump to from one post. And to clarify my examples are of backstories not single player D&D. As far as railroad vs sandbox, the pc has the powers the pc has, don’t see any difference there. And the dm can still use the patron. Maybe the patron tries to entangle the...

I have always been enamored of the contest, trickery, or favor done method. Contest: think of the song The devil went down to Georgia. Johnny gets the fiddle which is the conduit for power. The devil can only attack him obliquely as that’s just the cosmic order of things. Trickery: Using...

Robby lying about wearing a helmet….that’s foreshadowing something, right?

Bologna….d&d bologna that is, brought to you by license from TSR. I learned that one from @Alphastream.

Ohh how about the both count. If the player picks up a dice first it’s made with advantage if the DM picks up a dice first it’s with disadvantage?

On what basis could you refuse? I’m actually facing this right now. I have offered to run a D&D game e for some co-workers. All are fantasy movie and videogame geeks, 1 is an experienced D&D 5e player, one played in the 90s and 2 are new to ttrpg. Right off the bat the least experienced one ask...

Oh me for sure. I don't get to watch a lot, (wife and son both hate black and white TV shows), but I always love when a window to watch one opens AND it is one of my favorites (or a forgotten one).

So, to properly run a Dragonborn NPC I have to reference both the MM and the PHB? That may be the correct interpretation but man that pushes 5e further down the list of games I want to run. But then again in 3rd I never added class levels to monsters for the same reason.

So this thread made go reread the first part of the Raiders of the Lost Ark novelization. He gets tells but some are razor thin more like he gets ‘a feeling’. But how to gamify that? As a DM putting in tells means I have to be more mindful and thoughtful about placement and purpose, which is...

I am a lesson learned kind of guy. I mean waiting a month longer than I wanted for the core book was not as big as a deal as I made it out to be, but no waiting this time. It's funny the standard book at $39.99 seems almost too low (not complaining, but I was expecting $50ish usd) and the...

Well my wife has been asking for my Christmas list.

I had no idea there was a new Black Company book. It has kind of thrown me. I read the first 3 and silver spike multiple times in the 90s. And the books of the south once each as they came out. I’m not much into grimdark anymore, do I jump back in? Do I reread the Books of the South? Do I...

Yeah I think I overstated it a bit but I was vaguely remembering this passage: "I am very old, oh man of the waste countries; long and long ago I came to this planet with others of my world, from the green planet Yag, which circles for ever in the outer fringe of this universe. We swept through...