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Zzakael19 reacted to plecostomus's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons: Warlock Video Game Announced by Invoke Studios with
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Friends and I got irrationally excited about this because of a great book that came out this year called The Raven Scholar. Just a bunch... -
Zzakael19 reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons: Warlock Video Game Announced by Invoke Studios with Like.
Veilguard also wasn’t even a bad game. It had the unfortunate problem of its writing being its weakest point, coming from a series whose...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) What is your favorite encounter site or dungeon from an official module?.Oh that's a good one, I folded this into an Eberron campaign and it still worked great. The Unwelcome Spirits Fort Venture...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) What is your favorite encounter site or dungeon from an official module? with Like.
Phandelver is still by far the best 5e adventure in my opinion. All of the dungeons in it, though small, are very solidly designed, and...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) What is your favorite encounter site or dungeon from an official module? with Like.
Mr. Dorey's warehouse from the Styes (Ghosts of Saltmarsh) the whole module is creepy and disturbing in a Lovecraftian way, but fighting...
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Zzakael19 reacted to MichaelSomething's post in the thread First foray into paid DMing - 16 session in. with
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Little surprise that paid DMing is working out well for you. Since you're an Enworlder, you possess world class DMing skill. -
ZFigured at this point we should have a central thread to discuss the various Stonetop games folks around this board have run, talk about...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread How do you like to start a campaign.Yup, that's one of the suggestions (among others) he's got in that chapter about slowing things down. I've also encouraged players to...
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ZYeah, I got the impression that more time is meant to pass between major excursions and the like… but that seems to assume that threats...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread How do you like to start a campaign.We've had one death (went through TLD feeling like he'd done a good job setting the next generation up, and the player had pre-written...
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ZYeah, the game I GMed went for probably about that number of sessions. It was every other week for just over two years. We wound up...
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Zzakael19 reacted to ECMO3's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes with Like.
I used to get really stuck on names, then I started using Virtue names and transliterated Arabic words and now it is pretty easy for me...
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Zzakael19 reacted to TorgoTheWhite's post in the thread How do you like to start a campaign with Like.
Similar to an epic, somewhat. I've learned I like to start in the middle of the story. Minimize sharing of party makeup details. As...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread How do you like to start a campaign.I'm at 60 sessions now and probably wrapping somewhere between 65 and 70, which bi-weekly would likely be nearly 3 years! But not a "12...
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ZSo, "people getting talked into playing something they don't want to play" is a table thing, not a game thing. It can absolutely happen...