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Mercenary company who are hired by local lords/barons/whoever to do their dirty work or fight in their border wars. They could come up with a Company Name, Badge, and basically travel around looking for work. (I realize this is ultimately what adventuring parties do, but this would be at a...

In one of my campaigns, I toyed with using spell points that regenerated over time, passively. So if you had (just spitballing) 40 spell points, and used 10 of them in an encounter, then you might get back 2 points per hour no matter what you were doing. If you found an area saturated with...

What do you think the impact of this would/could be as it applies to a god of death, or even a Pantheon? In DnD we have ready made healing, raise dead, resurrection and similar magics which do exactly that - allow the living to avoid death. Why would a god of death allow that? Particularly if...

Count me in as one who kept my Midnight hardback when I got rid of all the other 3.X dnd stuff years ago. I was actually working on a conversion of it, as I thought any update was dead in the water. Happy to see it making a return. Will be interested to see how they make it dark and gritty in...

Its probably fairly "boring and mundane" but I often use the following to add new spells to the available options: 1) The spellcaster's mentor (or circle, or wherever they learned their spells) has found evidence of new spells being used in a neighboring kingdom/land. They send the...

I use a combination of both (or have over the years). I find that coming up with my own bespoke campaign ends up being a lot more work for me than using an 'established' setting. I've had the most success running FR, but altering the timeline, or moving back in time before large events, or...

I don't think Storm King's Thunder is a good recommendation. It suffers from the same issues as Rime and Hoard, and most of WOTCs 5e adventure paths. There are either things unexplained, dead ends for no reason, random wandering around the whole western part of the realms for no real reason...

Make new ones. That way you can put whatever you want into it, plus the kitchen sink. Leave old ones alone, if you insist on re-releasing it, don’t change things about it, just update it to the new system.

I find most spellcasting, particularly compared to older editions (can't speak to 3.5/4th) is focused on doing damage. With the short length of combats, why waste an action casting a spell to help you shorten the combat? Use an offensive spell or attack, do damage, and... shorten the combat...

To really, broadly generalize this, I'd say 1) experience (as a DM, and as a player) 2) approach to the game (combat simulator versus story, collaborative versus competitive, or some other combination) I think players and DMs both have these traits, or can have these traits, but finding that...

Nope, I can only comment on our players, at our table, under our "style", under our DMs. No generalization intended or implied.

My experience with the game is similar to that of @overgeeked, but I don't describe it as "really bad gaming experiences". Now, I have to preface that I've been playing with the same players for about 40 years or so (we started back in gradeschool). Early experiences and playstyle developed...

Gatekeeping of what? That people want to discuss the difference between the two types of gaming, and potentially might find more interest on one side of the continuum or the other? This constant throwing around of "gatekeeping" as a way to block discussion about things that people might...

(y) He'd be super helpful getting the hoard away from the Dragon's lair too...

Talk about ability score inflation. The 2e Players Handbook lists 1,130lbs Maximum PRESS as a Str 23. So if Mr. Bjornsson can get that over his head and hold it, he'd have a 23... :oops: Continuing, anyone in 2e can Jump (Broad Jump) with the non-weapon Jumping Proficiency. To get to that...

I’ve moved away from the VTT bells and whistles to paper character sheets and owlbear, or maybe using the VTT for dice rolls and record keeping. Stuff that complicates prep, or has ongoing costs is a non-starter. Considering DND beyond mentions 10 million ‘users’ or ‘logins’ or whatever, 3,000...

This seems strange to me, and players at my table do something similar - when creating characters for the game, they ask each other "What do we need?" rather than playing what they would find interesting. I think some of this goes back to older editions where if you didn't have a cleric, you...

So, an Artificer?

What happens when the Oinoloth is expelled from the Duke? Does it just scamper off? Turn and fight? Start laying waste to the assembled people? Bring in other extra planar creatures? It sounds like the party has all the cards lined up to handle the Duke, and expose the Oinoloth (which...

In-person, analog is my preferred approach - wet/dry erase hex mapboard, markers, tokens or minis - done. Even in the virtual space, having used FG heavily for several years, we've moved to Owlbear Rodeo (rolls dice, simple maps, tokens) and are enjoying it a lot more. Glad these are out...