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Here is my take on VRGtR. Through your read, keep in mind the following: “I consider every gamers’ points of view. Young and Old. Traditionalists and Modernists alike.” Part 1 Lineages Although I much prefer “races” I don’t mind the new lineage as I still consider it “optional”, the floating...

For the first time, a player called me too strict for a ruling I made. Here is the ruling:" Although the wizard learns too free spells to add to his spell book, I ruled that the wizard still have to pay for the materials (inks) to write it in his spell book." I also ruled that you can only add...

In an other thread: "Worlds of design: Is fighting evil passé?" a lot of talk turned around alignments and their interpretation. For about 35 years, I have used a variant of the Palladium Alignment system in the D&D game. It is the do(s) and don't(s) of the different alignments. It is heavily...

Last night I took one of my old adventure that I wanted to adapt to 5ed and I got a slap in my face. This adventure was no longer possible with the concentration mechanic! The adventure was called The Dungeon of Excapode the Mad. Here is the back story. A mad enchantor decides to frame the...

I have been a bit absent from the forum but I am back. I started CoS about two months ago now with 6 players. Right off the bat, I said that now, two weapon fighting (if you have the fighting style) won't use up your bonus action. Here is the cast. Mei Wan a Ranger 4 / rogue 2 (the dual...

In many games I have the chance to come across; I see many young masters taking monsters out of the MM and play without sense of tactics. Most monsters in adventures feels like statues waiting to activate as in a videogame where they jump to life only as the players are coming in. Here are the...

Titles says it all, almost... At first, I was thrilled with the concentration mechanic. Now, I find that concentration for spell lasting more than 10 minutes is really constraining on the players and DMs alike! The logic behind concentration is to avoid having players and monsters stacking...