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They were around level 8 at the end of Pool. I did milestone leveling, so they usually gained a level each time they cleared out a major section of old Phlan.

Fair point, but since we were playing with miniatures and lots of tokens anyway, I’d just stick a red “bloodied” bead next to the injured ones, so it saved me some hp tracking.

I used to play in a ton of Champions games, ranging the full genre gamut from four color tights to paranormals hunted by shadow government agents, but I wouldn’t ever play in a system that crunchy again. These days my gaming groups only dabble with super hero one shots. We tried a few engines...

I don’t run a lot of games set in the Realms, but coincidentally the last one I did was both Pool of Radiance (Ruins of Adventure) run back to back with Curse of the Azure Bonds. I updated both for 5e and took the characters from Level 1 to 14

I’ve never incorporated real holidays in my D&D games, but I have done adventures set during fictional festivals. I did, however, once ran a super hero game that involved our heroes saving the holidays from criminals dressed up like Santa Claus and his elves.

I tried a similar thing in my 4e games, but with the twist that if the damage was below the damage threshold, the minion became “bloodied”. A second hit on a bloodied minion would then kill them. What this did was take away some of the sting the players felt when hitting a foe but not doing...

Thank you for the campaign summary. It's not too dissimilar to our own table's experience. We're now running 5e with some A5e elements mixed in, mainly using Culture/Heritage, the option to use A5e or original classes/subclasses, mixing the monsters from either source, and adding in the new...

It was the beginning of the Satanic Panic, ironically. One or more of the alarmed parents was warning other parents and the school about this Devilish game. Well, nothing made it more appealing to us nerdy 9-year olds, so we pooled our allowanced together and bought a copy of the forbidden 1981...

Realizing that the OP is from 8 years ago and therefore unlikely to see this, nevertheless it jogged a memory from my own experience playing a Psionicist in 2e days. I think we were around 7-8 level and facing an 'end-boss' level encounter of a pair of mind-flayers with their umber hulk...

Ultima I on the Apple II was the big game changer for me and my gateway into the world of ttrpgs. When the pandemic hit I grabbed Ultima I thru 5 on GOG and binge played the whole classic series. Another special one for me was the Eamon text rpg series by Donald Brown, which inspired my sense of...

They are in fact in the Adventures in Rokugan book. The book uses the post-MMotM system for all the species (+2 to any, +1 to any for attributes). Their abilities are more geared toward the setting itself (Shadowlands survival), so probably not the best option for a non-Rokugan campaign.

I have another request, if possible. On the NPC sheet, we have sections for Actions, Bonus Actions, Reactions (et al). Would it be possible to put a button (where I've drawn my blue circle) that would post the name and description of these various actions into the chat window?

Thanks for your reply. I think the underbalanced maneuvers tend to jump out at me more, making me wonder if I've missed something. And yeah, if you could juts swap them out for higher degree maneuvers later, that also would mitigate some of the issue, but you're stuck with swapping them out...

So I'm probably about 2 years too late on with this question, but I'll go ahead and ask anyway... In our game, we've noticed that some maneuvers are worded as: "You take the Attack action and make a melee weapon attack, as well as any additional attacks granted by Extra Attack" and others just...

Small request: Could we get the font size on Maneuvers increased? The description text has a nice size, but the "subject" (?) is very small and I think harder to read because of the mismatch*. (* or possibly old man eyes) Thank you!

Mechanics-wise, I'm not sure there's anything that I personally think I like ~better~ about 2e, but as far as settings, lore, campaign materials, and just imaginative writing, I don't think the 2e can be beat. I still reference a lot of my 2E books for my current games, and I've adapted a lot of...

Good question, my gut reaction would be to omit those restrictions, but I'll think on it... I'm not too worried about this player exploiting flying, swimming, etc, but still something to consider. As written, it's a 1-minute ritual with a somatic component, so I think if you were restrained you...

Yes, I think I omitted that from the description. It should be a 3rd level spell. Thanks for all the other insights and suggestions, very helpful in balancing this subclass out!