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I like to randomize character creation, so I put this together about six years ago for my 5.0E games as an adaptation of the Secondary Skills table from the AD&D 1E DMG. The original table features a 15% roll twice result (which is replicated on my table), so my table also results in combination...

I like alignment as an ingredient in the kitchen-sink medievalistic modern fantasy that is D&D, like having Vancian wizards and Tolkienian orcs. In this case, it's cosmic factionalism from Three Hearts and Three Lions and the Elric Saga which feature Law versus Chaos. I think the expansion to...

FWIW, "The Provisional Glossary" over at The Forge has this definition: Railroading Control of a player-character's decisions, or opportunities for decisions, by another person (not the player of the character) in any way which breaks the Social Contract for that group, in the eyes of the...

"Copper, we need to close the portcullis," says Terrin, as he begins moving past the goliath toward the storeroom, "and you're the only one who can do it." He pauses and utters a harsh sounding word as he places his hand on the goliath's shoulder, adding, "May this help you find a way to...

Yes, an ox-stampede would add some chaos to the situation if it can even be accomplished at all, but I think chaos is kind of Copper's thing maybe, so I've been trying to leave it up to @Leatherhead. Also, given what @FitzTheRuke has posted, getting the oxen to cooperate will probably take more...

The OP's example takes place during a fight with a dragon, so my responses assume the rules for combat are being used. You can enter a hostile creature's space if it's two sizes larger or smaller than you, but the special action being referred to is the Climb onto a Bigger Creature action from...

That's a good idea. I was trying to think of a way we could use the oxen. If it works, it could maybe buy us some time to get the portcullis down and disabled, which was Terrin's plan, but I haven't thought of a way he could execute that without getting himself killed. It looks like the whole...

@Leatherhead, Terrin doesn't have the ability to teleport, and I think Lorent is out of spell slots, but perhaps Copper could lower the portcullis and somehow render the mechanism inoperable while the rest of us get inside the storeroom and provide covering fire, and then use Cloud's Jaunt to...

Terrin takes the opportunity of Rowlow staggering away and moves up to the open portcullis, tearing the mercenaries' badge from his shield, and presents the fountain-image emblazoned on its surface. As he incants in a jarringly rough language, the waters of the fountain seem to catch the light...

I think it depends on the setting whether creatures that perform the function of minions in combat are part of it, but I'll accept they aren't part of your setting, so the mechanic isn't about representing things in your setting. Nor does the mechanic establish, develop, or resolve a...

That would be High-Concept Simulationism. If you're going to use GNS terminology, at least use it correctly. Just because you can describe play using the word narrative does not make it an instance of Narrativism.

I meant they aren't in the dragon's space just as you aren't in the space of the layers that support the road when you're standing on the road. Typically the space a character occupies begins at ground level, not below. The difference is the dragon's a creature, so you can't stand on it as if it...

After some reflection, although I might resolve the players' declared actions in a similar way to what I posted above, I really don't think the rules support characters taking actions while in free fall, so the exploit essentially wouldn't work as stated because once the PCs teleported to the...

I'm surprised no one has mentioned (afaics) the 4d6 force damage called out in dimension door that could arguably apply for attempting to teleport into a place already occupied by a creature, if that "place" were interpreted to be the space controlled by the dragon. Personally, though, like the...

At least it'll give @Leatherhead a chance to get their turn posted up!

Hard to say, but it wouldn't matter because there'd be nothing to concentrate on as soon as he woke up. Agreed, it's not Terrin's style, but he did try to bludgeon him as he was waking up, which is almost as bad.

I also don't think it would have been optimal given the situation. Siobhan is only about thirty feet away from where he was sleeping. The noise of making an attack might have alerted her, and I might have missed like I did when I attacked him while he was still prone. If I did hit, it would be...

It has the portcullis, so we could theoretically prevent them from following us in there right away, and the door probably leads somewhere, not to mention the sewer which maybe isn't somewhere we want to go, but still is a way out. Yeah, that was a mistake. I have no idea what the range is of...

I was imagining a fighting retreat like @FitzTheRuke described, falling back into the storeroom so we could close the portcullis and somehow jam the crank to hold it closed while we escape. Lorent (@Neurotic) doesn't seem to want to run away just yet, but Terrin was getting hammered where he...

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