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It’s a Marmite choice I’m sure but Jeremy Godwin’s art on When A Star Falls was very evocative of a certain mood for me

I dunno, Cleric seems fine to me. I mean, his or her day job will involve being the clan wise person and healer of burnt paws etc - not just a fighter. But clerics do get the ‘evil’ side with Inflict Wounds, Protection from Good, etc. Plus good buffing of their ‘troops’. Also, a cleric gnoll...

Good old fashioned AD&D style Magic Mouths all over the shop, triggering alarms in an ascending shrillness that even Dh’orisz - the minimum waged, half-blind, geriatric kobold that they keep on the payroll out of pity because she’s been there since Rossothrax was a hatchling - even she can...

Between this and reading Dyson Logos’ blog tonight, am having SEVERE desire to play BECMI again, and introduce my new role players to the joys of reverse AC and being able to really concentrate on playing your character without all the fiddly bits

Hugh Grant = Venger Chris Pine = Hank Michelle Rodriguez = Diana Bridgerton Guy = Presto Sophia Lillis = Bobbi (see what they did there) Justice Smith = Eric Toby Jones for Dungeon Master! Anya Taylor-Joy for Sheila! yeah!

Interesting. I’d love to be able to replicate narratively (tend to use TotM but even on a grid the visual setting details are sparse) the type of fight you see in movies. Thinking of the fight in the Jason Momoa Conan film where they’re fighting in a kind of construction site? The use of...

Acererak. Which would explain Hugh Grant. The villain’s name is actually Acerak. But in Grant’s halting posh speech, Acer...er...ak.

For me, a fighting style is something consciously patterned down into an unconscious habitual skill; barbarians’ Rage/Reckless/Frenzy seems more like an unconscious instinct tapped into and given full, no memory afterward, rein. So in that sense, it is the barbarian fighting style.

I dunno - maybe tie it to the earlier idea of dragons and barrows?

I guess so - higher level spells have a higher energy demand so they will pull from further away.

My last session saw the party take on a job that involved traversing a nasty, ill-reputed wood. They got very lost, and a random encounter roll provided 2 orcs. Dispatched easily enough, but I made them one male, one female, for no real reason. One of the players passed comment that they were...

There’s a nice idea I’ve seen in Trudvang, where magic has to be pulled toward the caster. In essence this means that elsewhere the magic becomes thinner. Think of the Faerunian ‘weave’ as actual fabric. Casting spells pulls on that fabric and it gets rouched up in places. The Trudvang idea is...

Anyway, here’s a thought/paradox. Halflings are Lucky, so a whole settlement of them would, conceivably, be a huge nexus of Luck. Good weather, lack of marauders, bountiful harvests without pests, excellent health, etc. Any society, large as a nation or small as a gang, would LOVE to have some...

Wow, I’ve had some time (years) away from here. Posted a reply to this thread yesterday about halflings and gnomes and check back in this morning to find ... undead GPS? Not that I’m complaining; I’d forgotten how tangential conversations can go! However, undead GPS should be called ‘TombTomb’.

There’s a nice take on halflings on DMs Guild, Book of Bastards. Stouts = half-dwarf, Lightfoot = half-elf; this ‘halflings’ means half breeds in general rather than a named species. Gnome = half dwarf, half elf, much rarer. Half elves as written don’t exist.

Sub-cheese? Isn’t that...just...like, mould?