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That's an odd metaphor. Cats are already in the box, they got in there the second you put the box on the ground. A box is a cat's natural environment, they love it in the box. In fact if you turn your back on a box for a second and turn back, there will be a cat in it. At least as far as I ever...

I would not get too caught up on the legalese of the oath. Simply consider whether the god in question would be OK with their champion doing that. I would also not get caught up with whether it was fair on the paladin. The god's can hold them to a higher-than-fair standard. He got those powers...

I don't think that WotC need to be too explict about supporting this. The people that want to use it a fair bit will do so undeterred by them always giving a stat-skill descriptor. New people will find that easier, experienced DMs will not care. Personally I tend to keep unusual combinations of...

A skill can succeed and not have the immediate or desired effect. You can get utterly persuasive and not immediately change somebody's obvious actions. For instance, I can conceive of no way in which I would cheat on my wife. If Gal Gadot wanted to seduce me, I can guarantee she would succeed...

Bupp , I do something similar, but ended up borrowing from the One Ring RPG. In that you have an economic status, poor, comfortable, wealthy etc. I simply charge X amount to buy a lifestyle for 6 months. If the item you want fits into your lifestyle, then you have it. An average person cannot...

Chaosium. There was strangely another game by the same name floating around at the same time, with the same setting but different rules. I believe that one was digitally published, it was sold on disks at gaming stores. This led to a lot of confusion in my area.

Is there something I am missing regarding controlling the wyverns? Why has the thing not put its tail-spike into the PCs yet? I never picture them like horses. I would say they are either magically subdued, or loyal only to certain riders. If the PCs do fly off following the bad guys, I would...

Hidden Shrine was still a flashback in Chuult for me. That worked well, as the idea is that they have already know the lay of the land and are friends with an airship captain in Chuult by the time we swap to real-time and they need to go destroy the soul-eating-thingy. The plan was that this...

Charlaquin , wow it sounds like we are running the same game :) I'd like to think my earlier mentions of that helped inspire yours. It sounds like yours has progressed better than mine though. My group stopped playing due to RL concerns before I could reveal the death curse having an effect on...

Firstly, I think tables need to remember that we are all in this together. I always find it odd when people try to protect their patch of turf to this extent. As both a player and GM I think it is fine to say what involuntary emotions or even thoughts they have. E.g. "The smell of the lovely...

If my player cared and i had no immediate justification handy, I'd say it is up to them to tell us why they cannot cast in armour. If they stammer about it or decide it is too hard to do, then they will understand that it is not a good use of my time either.

It is important as a DM to remember that having 20 AC and being super hard to hurt is the main schtick of those character classes. While a mage is melting faces with fireball, or a cleric is raising the dead, the fighter is hard to hit. There is little appreciable difference between classes as...

If inspiration is forgotten about, then only pulled out when it is really important, then it just feels like a Deus Ex Machina by DM fiat. Inspiration just does not come up naturally in our games. Nobody likes self-promotion in their RP, the DM has enough going on already, and it feels like it...

I might have missed it, but has anybody mentioned Barghests? They are shapeshifting Goblins that murder their kin to steal their souls. So there is already a monster designed to fill the role of 'goblin that kills goblins'. https://www.aidedd.org/dnd/monstres.php?vo=barghest...

An empty hand? I would say that her clerics show her honour by not cluttering up their equipment with a symbol that does not give them joy. Instead, they buy an expensive holy symbol, then throw it in the trash. In return for such obedience, their diety gifts them the power of a holy symbol...

immortal son, I highly recommend the Dex-based Battlemaster for such characters. With Riposte, Parry and Disarm fights felt like a real Swashbuckling affair. I only got to play a little at higher levels, but I put 3 levels into Rogue-Thief and made good use of my Cunning Action to pull rugs out...

I have played the Psion and found that the abilities were very good outside of combat, but required some clever uses. So I would call that balanced in my experience. I'm going by memory, but I think I had an ability to track an item and look from its perspective. The Rogue-Thief did a spy movie...

What is the point of the runes and sigils if they are not necessary? As a DM I would definitely allow PCs to stuff it up with a pick axe. Don't let people mess with your teleportation circle. I would say that it can be repaired and might only take a week to re-etch the particular symbol hurt and...

Doing the smart and tactical thing should not be met with things being made harder for them. XP is an inherently pretty silly concept. I party should not be a in worse position because they avoided heaps of fights before taking on a dragon. That makes little tactical sense and even less in-game...

Last night while watching PJ Masks with my 4 year old I thought of a theory I'd like to share. I think that most GMs could learn a great deal from writing adventures like kids TV shows. It's a working theory, but it has three parts to it. 1) The stakes are clear and important, but not life or...