Search results

I don't write unit tests either - I just note I should have and move on. :unsure: And don't get me started on Agile....;)

If you have an intractable error, I find constructing a simpler case, whose purpose is to confirm base assumptions/design, can be very helpful. Your code has many references to specific class/weapons (which is good in terms of features), but may obfuscate the core mechanisms under test - an...

Is there a place on the river, well upstream which includes a steep precipice, that my golems can 'attack' such that when undermined it will block the river enough to make it generally fordable? The golems chances of survival should be good but some loss may be acceptable. If there were, and I...

If TotM were to have a ... marketing/mind share difficulty...would a prop heavy 'luxury' form (which has its undeniable charm?) perhaps help TotM get a make-over in the next set of books? Just a wild thought, but well meant. edit/exposition - I remember playing a game as I'm suggesting now at a...

Speaking broadly, weren't the earliest games played on a tabletop with miniatures, but without a grid of any kind (tape measures and such used for distances)? The earliest known addition of hexes, from what little I know, appears to be Avalon Hill's Outdoor Survival with continued adaptations...

rocking the dark mode - fyi check boxes for polls (left of text) are extremely faint in chrome on macOS

Orders I corp - special units to prevent spell recovery by adventurers with harassment. They must not recover their major spell slots whilst I develop the next major attack. Siege and bridging units, and main human forces, to march on Temple and give every appearance of a protracted...

Kidnap someone very important to the adventurers but out of their current protection (scry?), then negotiate while preparing assaults on their weakest allies, and a more creative magical assault on the temple when confusion is greatest. Can I freeze the river? Form bridges of lesser undead?

A computational solution (for the fun of it) - enumerate all outcomes for advantage (2d20) from __future__ import print_function #initialize what will be an array of arrays a = [0]*20 #populate the array with the largest of i or j for i in range (0,20): a[i] = [0]*20 #init #populate...

"The Drawing of the Dark" - Tim Powers "The Face in the Frost" - John Bellairs

These, with particular emphasis on combat encounter design. I would go to well regarded encounter designers and ask them to write up what isn't in the books - the tweaks, the foreshadowing, the problem spots for this or that monster type. I would draw in 90%+ of the table, stats, and rules...

While prepping this adventure for a group of new players (and I myself am new to 5e) one of my players suggested this might interesting to a broader audience. ItemTable tbt_day_stock { :2: 1#8+2 stirge(.cr. 1/8), :2: ogre(.cr. 2), :2: 1#6+3 goblin(.cr. 1/4), :2: 1#4+2...

I ponder, was a standard/moderate encounter (3 giant spiders vs. 4th lvl party) elevated to hard because the spiders were in what might, in wargaming terms, be considered a prepared defensive position? Most intriguing.

I confess respectful empuzzlement then. - Is BX - Basic + Expert ? edit - I would also add that in those days there was a great deal of rules snobbery, which I cringe to think of now. All the versions have their merits, including those yet to come. edit2 - please forgive my failure to read the...

I would love to see a 5e Technical Reference Compendium (physical book) designed to expedite prep by the best in the business. I realize that there are electronic versions of this and my request is not meant to disparage these - there is something ineffable to me about a well crafted tome (as I...

In the late 70s and early 80s when I played most local clubs seem to have taken great pride in home brew rules systems of long persistent campaigns that built on the 3 little books, and usually the Greyhawk expansion. I had to search on "B/X", and only because in those days different systems...

I cast "Detect Light of Gas" :unsure:

I'm told that, from the standpoint of history (of which I claim no mastery, only interest), the true power of the longbow came from plunging fire. A storm of arrows would rise up as a cloud, peak, and rain devastation much as an area of effect spell might at a high angle of incidence. Are...

Yes, thank you for the feedback. Here is the (recast) level one dungeon main encounter table with room origin annotations. The CRs have been adjusted and the confusing property table removed. ItemTable lvl_1_moat { 1#8 giant rat(room A, .cr. 1/8), 2#6 giant rat(room B, .cr. 1/8)...

One last note on the narrow topic of TM giant rat CR equivalency(conversion) to 5e. As written in the TM booklet, these vary from 1 to 4 HD, but the smaller (1 HD) are harder to hit than the larger ones in terms of AC. Thus, using the more nuanced approach to monster balance in the 5e DMG of...