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Portals: How the portals exist, when they came to be and why they are is not something anyone knows, although the citizens of The Well believe the Kumpali is responsible for some part of it, since He has control over them. The records of the city itself are so old as to be impractical to study...

Coerced under duress might have been a bit of an exaggerated way for me to put it. I'll fill in some more color to the shared party backstory and you can decide if it still sounds that way: Before the campaign, each new PC-to-be lived in their native Realm Overlord invaded said Realm and...

(I'm going to try quoting this time in case the forums don't notify you without the quote) When you say it's a nope, do you mean that it just doesn't sound fun, or specifically that the indentured treasure hunter aspect to the theme is the part you find distasteful?

Thanks for that tip. I'll be on the lookout both for players who know anything about that series and also read up on it myself to see if there is anything to steal for an adventure or two (or some dramatic situations to otherwise set up in the campaign) :) If it does create any confusion I can...

When you say it's a nope, do you mean that it just doesn't sound fun, or specifically that the indentured treasure hunter aspect to the theme is the part you find distasteful?

I'm actually looking into the idea of creating an Interactive Fiction Choose Your Own Adventure style web app to demonstrate these concepts in order to introduce prospective players to the game. Since there is a fair amount of information here, I think it might be helpful if the process of...

Speaking of higher level, with this campaign I'm going to try something different with regards to resurrection magic in an OSR game. At great cost, the PCs' Patrons can gain access to powerful and restricted healing magic that can restore limbs and potentially even life. Normally when a Gari...

:finger to mouth and shifty glance: Shhhhh....

This is perhaps one more fact that is relevant: This will be an OSR style campaign. Characters are extremely quick to make, many aspects of a character are randomized (except their skills), and the adventures are lethal. It's more meant to be a game when the party guages each encounter with...

This is an idea for a Campaign Setting I had, but I want to make sure it doesn't give people bad vibes before presenting it to the players like this. The PCs are refugees from the various Realms they come from, which were subjugated by the Overlord. They are rescued to take refuge in a giant...

This DM's notebook, called the Worldbuilder's Notebook, is being Kickstarted by Swordfish Islands. It is looking pretty rad. The Kickstarter Synopsis: "I am an RPG creator and publisher, who likes to write notes. Lots of notes. I've developed the Worldbuilder's Notebook over the past couple of...

It doesn't defeat the purpose if said purpose is to speed up combat. The "declare ahead" style of turn action meets more than one purpose: It can speed up combat It can simulate the chaos of battle It lets all players pay attention to all of the combat, not just their turn It can reduce...

Welp, ignore what I said. Apparently genetic disorders are diseases. I guess I was confusing disease and infection. I would still say that a Paladin's Lay On Hands would not cure genetic disorders that were acquired through parental genes; only mutated genes. This is in no way scientific...

I do the unpopular thing, and although new players (to my table) at first gripe about it, they later tell me they love it. Brand new players to D&D don't gripe: Each player has 10 seconds (there is a timer) to tell me what they do for the round, at the beginning of the round. I call each...

Alcoholism is called a "disease", but my understanding is that it's not the scientific meaning of disease, which is something that can be contracted and cured, but rather just a word to help people understand that there is a biological component that goes beyond someone's mere choices. This...

Question: Do these clarifications ever make it into an errata? On the one hand, I'd like to keep track of rules clarifications from WotC. On the other hand, unless it's in a single reference I can keep, I'm not going to bother. I have PTSD from trying to memorize all the errata in the 3 and...

Heck, I'll also add my 2 cents. I'm intrigued by such a system, however for deungeoncrawl games, I want to point out that something is lost if you equalize currency between the classes. One thing that has been a part of D&D from the begining is that Fighters don't worry about currency as much...

Rather than just ask a question, I should also share. Five Torches Deep has the most innovative inventory system I've seen of the various indy or OSR games: 1. You state that you will buy at least 1 of any item you want to bring (arrow, torch, ration, etc) 2. Now you can spend gold on...

What about consumables? Potions, rations, torches, arrow, etc

@Anyone who responded to my comment on never seeing the described "death spiral": I may have misunderstood what was meant by this term, because when I said that I've never seen it happen before, I was responding to the original description of it, which was: My reading of this definition of...