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Drow, for attracting all the edgelords.

XP is for Winners If you overcome an obstacle, you get XP. It doesn't mater how you do this (violence, trickery, guile, whatever), as long as you do it. If you sneak past an obstacle in a manner that means you could encounter that same obstacle later, you might only get ½XP. XP is for Closers...

How well does the book support players playing the actual Heroes of the Lance? Raistlin, Caramon, Goldmoon, etc.

Maybe make alignment two triangles? Somewhere in the area of the triangle you draw a dot indicating alignment. Probably a big fuzzy dot. The first triangle has good on one corner, evil or another, neutral on the third corner. The scond triangle has lawful, chaotic, neutral.

The poker comparison seems like it might fit here, but slightly different to the quote above. I think RPG players who never run away are like poker players who never fold. How do you teach a poker player that sometimes its best to fold, when they believe every game should be played to the end...

They are simultaneously physical places and metaphysical concepts. Yes, it's something that mortal minds struggle to understand. It's also possible that multiple cosmologies could be correct at the same time. Is the World Tree the correct model? Yes. What about the World Axis? Yes, that's...

I justify it on the basis of prep time. If I need an NPC who is going to last, at best, 3 rounds of combat then I don't want to spend the time and effort making or reading a PC's stab block. Just give me an attack and a couple of interesting abilities. Building every humanoid opponent as a PC...

Is that last dog wearing a sheath for a dagger? That's a bit metal. It would be more metal if it were a sheath for a flail.

Cool things about Primeval Thule Thule is Greenland during the Hyborian Age (about a 1,000 years before Conan's time) when they are not covered in glaciers. All the maps have "west = up" because at the time the magnetic north pole is actually west of the islands. There are nine gods, each...

I'd love to use languages, but my players all believe their characters can speak and read and write every single language, even the weird ones. They also think that when I say they don't understand a creature then that means they do understand the creature. Me: The creature speaks in a...

That distust and hatred is why the Cataclysm happened in the first place. That the distrust and hatred have got worse is because the peoples of Krynn learnt exactly the wrong lessons from the Cataclysm. I also think that the gods also have some blame in this, depsite what Fizban says. The War...

It's not candy, it's not corn, its not nice. Chaotic Evil.

In my experience, the people who consider the standard array "punishing" are quite often the people who do the "rolled, no those are low, that character died in training, roll again, not very good, that's ok, the gm says reroll anything below 10, hmm, don't like that, those rolls didn't count...

I don't think players realise that, essentially, non-tracked forest is all difficult terrain. I have conversations every few weeks from players who walk 20+miles a day when hiking (on formed, benched trails) who think their characters can do the same in untracked wilderness. I get it that...

Agreed. One of the themes I take from the novels and games is that of learning and change, and in a way they never did before. The workd of Krynn took exactly the wrong lessons from the Cataclysm, so the painful lessons during and after the War are an important part of the growing up of the...

It is the GM's job to decide the fiction. Players can prompt this, but the GM is the final arbiter. For example, if the GM says, "The ruler of Neverwinter is Lord Baadguey the Viileen," then the players might say, "Hang on, the SCAG says it is Dagult Neverember." but the GM has the right (the...

I thank Law and Chaos just need to be renamed. Tradition vs Innovation Institution vs Individualism Conformity vs Creation Obedience vs Self-Direction Cathedral vs Bazaar (Eric S. Raymond) Consensus vs Dissention Scripted vs Freeform Because really, Law has little to do with obeying laws or...

I refuse to change encumbrance A player complained that they couldn't carry heavy armour and big weapons and spellbook without losing speed. I have no sympathy, that's the price they pay for a wizard with 23 AC (28 with shield arrgghh).

The nature skill, like all INT skills, also involves research. Looking through a dusty library for a knowledge of a particular beast would be an INT\Nature check. I wouldn't allow INT\Survival for this (and certainly not any WIS check).

• A strength-based class, who uses heavy armour and toughness to resist being damaged. • A dexterity-based class, who uses agility and mobility to resist being hit. • An intelligence-based class, who uses book learning and study to know a wide range of abilities, but who can only fit a small...