Recent content by Xorne

Only 5 minute prep session I had (which was more like 30 minutes, the time they took to make characters) I decided there was a big city, with a silver mining town nearby, overrun by kobolds. I made up about 6 kobold encounters and then figured out where they fit as we played. Along the way the...

I'm at work so I can't look up the link, but there's some Lars guy that fires 3 arrows accurately in the time it takes him to jump and land. A round is 6 seconds, so... no problem, as long as they are willing to admit they are prancing around like a fairy.

I know I'm running "Forgotten Realms" because I'm 41 with an adult job and don't have the time or inclination to homebrew a good campaign anymore. I use quotes because besides the map, pretty much anything lore-wise is a grab bag. I mean they already came across Threshold and met a noble from...

This isn't even a save or suck situation, but an endangered player has agency if the DM gives them agency. My group was facing down a large group of cultists, led by the city captain and the paladin barrels headlong up to him, getting surrounded. The rest of the party is battling toward him...

I played with my current online group for a long time as a face-to-face game when I lived in Kansas City; then I moved to Montana for work, and we continued playing over Fantasy Grounds--it's nice to see their faces while we play. Before Roll20 came along (we use Roll20 for video, and FG to...

We play over Fantasy Grounds (have for a decade--I'm an FG hipster) and the combat tracker shows monster hit points as Healthy, Light, Moderate, Heavy, Critical, Dead/Dying, with 25% break points. I started using those descriptions in face-to-face play because it's about how much information I...

I must state my belief that there are trolls in this poll. And the d20 is the greatest dice ever made, for it is the foundation of the greatest game ever made. One thing I feel was overlooked is that it's the only physical perfect dice that increments it's probabilities in whole...

I play with a castle DM screen that has dice towers which dump in front of and behind my screen. When the players won't immediately know if their skill check succeeded (Insight for example), they roll in the tower and I see the result. (I also have across the bottom of the tower where a die...

Actually WotC treats game store owners like :):):):)--at least the three game store owners I know personally. I pay full price for my books at the FLGS rather than Amazon; not because I am a chump--but because I don't want my FLGS to have to close his doors, taking away the place I like to play...

I read the first post, and about a page of responses, but I'm just returning to EnWorld, so forgive me if this has been said already. I've been DMing for 31 years now--and there's one thing screaming out at me as a good reason to walk away from that game. You *waited to start* longer than my...

I never discuss FG with non-DMs, because players, generally, invest very little into RPGs. Plus, as a player, Roll20 vs FG is a bit of a wash. For a DM, it's just... :):):):)ing... amazing. It takes $10 a month to try it with your whole group, so... yeah. You absolutely do not need any of...

I'd like to know if there is a suggested wealth/treasure by level table or guidelines, beyond the magic item creation rules.

I'm coming in late, but I'll chip in that I prefer point-buy over random rolls as well. I played with random rolls a lot, and most of the time, people ended up with similar stats to point buy arrays. Occasionally though, someone would have just a stupidly powerful array (18, 17, 16, 16, 15...

I have zero interest in Dungeonscape, because it's pretty apparent it will not mean I have a PDF I can read whenever and wherever I want. So I'll scan my books and make my own PDFs. Their decision has absolutely nothing to do with piracy, either. They are making sure the only electronic...

I played since BECMI. Loved BECMI, loved AD&D (1e), was playing Palladium Games during most of 2E, came back to D&D for 3.x, got bored of it and stopped RPGing at all, then jumped into 4E, really liked it at first then it got repetitive I suppose, so I stopped again, then got into 13th Age...