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The game that was similar to HeroQuest, but randomly built with tiles, is Warhammer Quest. The base game has 4 characters, a bunch monster minis, and a bunch of tiles & corridors to connect them. Going to town was often more risky than the dungeon because you didn’t get any choice about what...

Ah well, I think it’s hilarious. Because proponents of a moral panic don’t actually read or otherwise know the media they attack, the anti-comics nutters don’t seem to have noticed the 616 thing. It’s kinda like how the anti-D&D satanic panic crap never seemed to notice that the ideal stat...

About Marvel’s Earth 616; the earliest versions of the book of revelation give the number of the beast as 616. That’s because the Romans weren’t the only culture to use letters as numerals, and the name ‘Nero Caesar‘ adds up to a different number depending on the letter-numerals the author...

I'd like a spell-less start with a few options to add spellcasting via subclass. Some of the options could have a built-in minor version of Subtle Spell, so while you're mechanically casting a spell, it's easy to reflavor. Aragorn's use of athelas would be an example: he said a few words...

Half-Orcs and Half-Elves are types of human heritage in PF2e. "Heritage" is the equivalent of what D&D calls 'subrace', but without the racial superiority language. 'Paladin' has loaded cultural baggage like 'Monk' or 'Barbarian'. The original paladins were knights of Charlemagne, and they...

Arby’s appears in the Critical Failures series by Robert Bevan. A group of Eartlings get sent to a fantasy world by means of some magic dice. In an attempt to get home, they get a gnome wizard to teleport them. Said wizard later proceeds to open an Arby’s in the fantasy world. Content...

A sea-to-sea river breaks verisimilitude for me, and most of the lakes must be like the Salton Sea, Salt Lake UT, or the Dead Sea, because they have no outflow. If the Thunder 'River' is really a canal, that would require constant maintenance to stop it being clogged with silt. Maybe there are...

I can tell you at least one reason there's some market for Bluetooth dice: visually impaired people game too. While it's possible to use an electronic dice simulation or to have the players state their bonuses and let the GM make the rolls, some people enjoy the tactile feeling of rolling...

Worlds of Wonder Age/Aeon of Arcana Or maybe name the system in such a way that it implies and encourages setting expansion, similar to GURPS or Savage Worlds. Maybe the base is the ‘Multiverse System’ or ‘Multiversal RPG’. If characters are meant to be demigods like Perseus, it’s Mythic...

I think this starts at 6th level, so what suggestions are there for what to run up to that point? I might start Mal Takkar as early as 4th-5th level because my players can probably handle it and I don't feel like dropping half the playable life of the characters. I can use Elissar, Eberron, or...

No matter how good the pie may be, it’s still rude to OGLe the ORC. i really don’t see why people think this thing is going to replace DMs, write term papers, or do anything else besides serve internet search results. Google has cause for concern, but the chatbot isn’t doing anything more...

Then I asked it to rewrite it preserving the reluctance: DM Seuss: Would you fight an orc for pie? Krusk: I will not fight an orc for pie, I would not fight him, Krusk am I. DM Seuss: Would you fight him on a ship? Krusk: I would not fight him on a ship, I would not fight him, Krusk would skip...

I asked ChatGPT to do a ”fight an orc for pie” rewrite of green eggs and ham, just telling it a few nouns to replace. Unbidden, it also flipped the script: DM Seuss: Oh my! You do like fighting orcs for pie! Krusk: Yes, I do! It gives me such a high! DM Seuss: Would you fight him on a bridge...

Maybe I'll use them as NPCs at some point but for now, reverse engineering how they were built was the point.

If the pregens were meant to be built with point-buy and get 2 ASIs from their Background, and if there isn't some other factor which can adjust ability scores from -1 to +2, this is what I get. Akanni is over by 1 point. Cenya appears correct. Diamond is over by 2 points. Gia appears correct...

I don’t know where to report typos, but this is what I have. Akanni is an Adept, with the STR build: 16 13 14 10 14 8 With 27 point-buy or array, that started as: 15 12 14 10 13 8 The Acolyte background increased WIS, which is the set point, and STR, as that’s the only way to get 16. That means...

So the DM rules that storing excess spells for too long can start requiring concentration checks to hold it all, and exhaustion levels if it's pushed too hard. Maybe the coffeelock exploit works in a computer game, but in that case there's no one having their game prep rendered pointless or...

I often say an effect is a variant of a similar spell. Maybe it has some downside that's anathema to the typical adventurer, but which the NPC doesn't care about. For example, maybe it causes a large amount of damage to the caster, but the BBEG is immune to that damage type. In Dungeons of...

A familiar name, cool! Nice to see you again, Stuperhero!