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Well, every PnP game that has ever been played any amount has had things that don't click. Even sanctioned play stuff house ruled some stuff. But, every game table I have played or DMed in had house rules. Though some editions were more heavily house ruled than others. 2e was ruthlessly house...

At that level, they have followers and henchmen to do that. Shame 5e does not go into that like 2e did but with not as much constraints as 3e did. They should have units of 1st level troops along with captains and lieutenants. Occasionally, the game would shift to the "B Team" to defend the city...

Reading a bit more of your facebook and site. I agree with you on not wanting adventure arcs. Those things are time consuming and only useful for homebrew DMs to pillage. I have never seen anyone run one outside of FLGS. There are enough settings out there. Most of the time, when I was looking...

I have always wanted to try my hand at writing a short adventure. I know this is an old post, but if you mean between "semi-professional" and "professional" are you talking artwork, too? I, and many others can write okay enough to fake it. But, many of us are poor artists. We can not do art...

Well, it IS jail. They can limit or ban anything they want as long as it is not religiously protected or food and toilet. That, and it uses dice. Most normies equate dice with gambling, not math, reading, and imagination. It also has someone "running" it. When cops think "running", they think...

I am kind of liking the fact that you just have disciplines rather than 20 pages of powers. Psionics in 3/3.5 always felt like just a caster with spell points. The rolling for power DCs in 3.0 led to mostly underwhelming results. Particularly at low level. But, I could see homebrewing some...

This is for 5e, mind you, and kind of house ruled. Depends on what kind of commoner, and commoners do have hit dice. Usually some tool proficiency or two even if it is just being the village drunk. A farm hand may have 2 HD, but the overseer may have 4. How large depends on how you want to make...

This brings to mind an ancient game. A NPC Wizard was going around calling himself an Archmage. The number crunchers and rules guardians of the table were quick to point out the dude did not have the levels for the then- "Archmage" class. I put it like this. You can call yourself anything if...

If the session is just Final Fantasy Tactics and just a cut scene then combat then cut scene making a skill not worthwhile, that affects a lot of characters, not just Mr. Ranger. Same could be said about Arcana or Persuasion or Insight. In that case, any skill without a combat use would be...

You know, I am almost tempted to write a munchkin scenario with a pdf editor of the Mary Sue prison demiplane of the Bad Character Concept. It is basically a demiplane within Ravenloft with the associated madness checks. You start out in an abandoned Temple of the Actualized Player Self Fantasy...

I would keep the advances 5e made with advantage/disadvantage. Otherwise, you would need to go with situational modifiers because some things to do are easier than others. Adv/Disadv. is just a good system. You wouldn't go back to thac0, would you? It is that good of an advance to DnD. I really...

1e and 2e had multiclassing and dual classing, but it was the lamest rules in the history of DnD next to weapon speed. No, don't. Multiclassing, you had to split XP between whatever classes and it would take forever to level. Dual class, you had to "forget" your first class till you got the...

I am sure the story is cool and I am glad your DM is cool about backgrounds. But, you would get more feed back if you used paragraph breaks. Walls of text are hard to read.

I second the whole "swallow whole" thing. Other than that, seems awesome. For treasure, I would make one of the treasures a hazard :D I mean, they are Carrion Crawlers. Maybe have on the battlemat a partially digested skeleton in 1 foot of rancid water they can not see (perception 20) still...

Do NOT take anything ever away from players except in rare situations as it applies to canon powers. Some players are very good players and this should embraced, not nerfed. That said, most Paladin builds have A LOT of trouble versus ranged attackers. Try enemy archers. They can hit with no...

I see what Oakleaf is trying to get at here. But, I am not sure any better system for determining what is "deadly" is really possible. I can also see "appealing to the lowest common denominator" as not really a bad thing. Not every player or DM is going to be very skilled at play or be familiar...

Depends on the party balance and how many folks. What is a stomp for one, may be durn near a TPK for others. Also, remember, the CR is based on a party of 4 PCs if I read correctly. So 6 PCs would be a bit easier than deadly. And, no. You are no tyrant. The days of Gygax and no save death...

Ask 5 folks, get 5 answers! To quote the Architect out of The Matrix, the problem is choice. It is impossible to have all things written up for all possibilities. A good map of stuff in the region is a good idea to have with you and there are generic MM stuff. But, you are not going to have...

I am guilty of that. "Now WHAT was his bonus?" ...looking at a sheet from 4 games ago that has no bearing on the current because I REALLY did not have the time to custom do a 3e 30th level caster and am really just rolling a dice and giving the result I feel is what would happen but don't want...

Instead of overly homebrewing, try Monk 5/ Fighter 5 first level as Fighter for the HP. House rule that because of your order, bows are a monk weapon if the DM is down just for flavor. Of course, I am probably overlooking stuff but: With Fighter 5, you get Fighting Style : Archery with a +2...