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Ah this brings back memories. WotBS was such a great megacampaign. I'm glad to see it's still going strong in 5e!

YES!! Absolutely 100% agree. While I love a lot of the simplifications that have been put into D&D, some of them just really bug me. Simplification is good for streamlining play, but not at the expense of vital flavor. In 2e it really mattered what weapon you chose. There were benefits and...

Somebody get Netflix and WotC to partner up on this immediately! Hell, they can even use those same actors and do it all in Portuguese. All I know is I want this, and I want it to be exactly like the commercial above (sans car).

Ok so where's the Kickstarter to make this a real show?? Those actors are spot on!

The real benefit of 3d printing isn't in minis; it's in terrain. Minis are still relatively cheap, and you don't need too many of them. However, a full Dwarven Forge dungeon costs well over $2000 and may not even have all the pieces you need. I print out dungeon tiles, houses, caverns, and all...

Medium sized centaurs and minotaurs just feels wrong. I do think the hybrid monster type is a neat idea, but they ought to be large. Separating them so much from their monster counterparts makes them feel like another race altogether. Like a special breed of "mini" minotaurs and centaurs. If I...

Medium sized centaurs and minotaurs just feels wrong. I do think the hybrid monster type is a neat idea, but they ought to be large. Separating them so much from their monster counterparts makes them feel like another race altogether. Like a special breed of "mini" minotaurs and centaurs. If I...

I'm still wishing for a HackMaster 5e ruleset. It will probably never come.

I love this idea. It made me re-subscribe to the Patreon. The idea of different languages having different effects is fantastic, and the words themselves are pretty comprehensive and cover most spell situations. Same here! So badly! I've posted about that a couple of times, but EoM for 5e...

Right?? I came here to read about Acererak, instead I'm reading about Stephen Spielberg and Ready Player One... :confused:

Hey everyone, I just launched a Kickstarter today for my third yokai encyclopedia. Yokai are the ghosts, spirits, and monsters of traditional Japanese folklore, some of which have inspired D&D monsters, or have directly become D&D monsters themselves. While not strictly written as a gaming...

Awesome! Thank you for sharing that. I will take a closer look. :)

I haven't been able to come up with a system that would work elegantly to combine Hackmaster's countup with D&D actions. At best it complicates things too much to be worth it, at worst it nerfs players. The workarounds you'd have to come up with to deal with things like bonus actions, a...

Playing with no casters is an amazing experience! It really changes the game, and aside from speeding things up it makes it much dangerous. However I kind of prefer it to standard D&D where magic is so common there's nothing special about it anymore.

It definitely took us a few sessions to get the hang of it, but once we did, everyone in my group fell in love with it. The only reason we went back to D&D from Hackmaster is that we wanted to play some of the newer published adventures, and the two systems don't convert easily (though they...

It definitely takes a little getting used to. It's fairly simple, but it's a big change from pretty much every other system out there, so its not easy to absorb quickly. Once you get the flow of it, it makes combat much more exciting. However, I'm sure it's not for every group. D&D 5e's...

Haha that's for sure! You definitely had to focus. But on the other hand, you always had something to do. It stopped my one player from leaning back and opening up tinder or some other game on his phone during long combat rounds when he had little to do. But yeah, if you were having a brainfog...

Yep! It works similarly in fantasy as well. You can aim and shoot with a bow, or you can rapid fire for an attack penalty. TBH, the choices you can make in Hackmaster combat have such interesting outcomes that it dwarfs the need for the super cool class abilities you get in D&D. I'm not sure if...

Yes, its based on their Aces & Eights system. The DM counts up the seconds, and you act when your second comes up. You can move 1 square per second (on a battle map this is awesome, with each PC moving simultaneously. It gets harder when you have a ton of monsters, but it can still be done...

Ah sorry, I hadn't noticed. But yeah, it is very interesting! It is slightly more difficult to run that traditional D&D combat, but it's hard to go back once you've got the hang of it. All of my players agree too. I've been racking by brain trying to come up with a simplified version that would...