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A bit off topic, but this reminded me I've always wanted to watch Star Wars and Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress, in that order, as a double feature.

No trilogies. The model for this should be the Martin Scorsese/Paul Schrader triptych: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Last Temptation of Christ. While I was driving a few days ago, I started thinking about the connection (in my mind) between Star Wars and car culture, which I think comes...

The Dark Elves came from the common home shared by all Elves, a bay on the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea, possibly the Bay of Acre/Haifa Bay, where they first "awoke" roughly 80,000 years ago. After about 5,000 years, they were "discovered" by the huntsman of the Archfey who invited the...

Sam Nujoma, freedom fighter and Namibia's first president, who led his country to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990, has died at the age of 95.

Following up on my earlier post, I've included the tables I use in the spoiler block below. They're basically the tables from the 1E DMG, but I've converted the modifiers for use with 5E. I've also included the tables I use for calculating the loyalty bonus which serves as the morale bonus for...

@pemerton , I'm a little surprised at how detailed and explicit the 4e text is. It even addresses the "supernatural power" question many seem to have and makes things that much clearer!

I do have such a system which I adapted from AD&D 1E. When certain triggering conditions occur, I set a DC based on the situation and various factors. NPCs and monsters have a morale bonus which is either the same as their loyalty bonus, if they are associated with the party, or based on their...

I've been meaning to try Torchbearer 2e or any of the other indie games, but so far I haven't had the chance. It's hard enough for me to get to play 5E on anything but a sporadic basis! I haven't played or read 4e, but maybe you could confirm my suspicion that its description of Insight isn't...

Call them daemons. Problem (mostly) solved. 😊

I can only speak for myself, but as a 5E DM, I'm reluctant to describe the interior mental state of a PC, limiting myself to things outside the PCs. So a result narrated as "you think the NPC is lying" is something I would avoid, instead describing that the NPC has a tell that indicates lying...

Yes, I try to have a "meaningful consequence for failure" in mind before I call for a check and will usually share it with the players before the roll takes place. When done right, it's something that follows from the PC's action and the general situation. What comes to mind is the PC's scrutiny...

The AD&D DMG, p 108, has a 6' wide by 8' high wooden moveable mantlet on wheels and with an arrow slit for 15 gp. For 5E, I'd lower the price to 9 gp. Only chest high? About 5 gp, I guess?

Right, the clue-gleaning is there to provide an explanation in the fiction for how the previously hidden/undetermined true intentions are now revealed/determined, but, at the table, the clue-gleaning and the intention-determining resulting from a successful check are one and the same. I don't...

Here’s how I “use” Insight (IMG): If a player declares an action to look/listen for clues as to the hidden true intentions of an NPC, and it’s plausible/"in genre" for the game both that the PC could notice such clues and that the NPC could have such intentions, and it's uncertain whether such...

Not yet! I'm still working on getting them to sit down for another session. Maybe this weekend!

If the player rolls high on an Intelligence check to recall information about a monster, meaning they succeed on the check, then their PC remembers the particular details are true that the player stated as having been those the PC was trying to recall.

Hogwash! Try reading a dictionary.

Casino Island as a location. Also, boxing! ETA: I guess I misremembered. The name is Dice Island in the comic strip. Oops!

No problem, and thanks for all the work you're putting into this. It's been a blast so far.

Hey @FitzTheRuke , are we continuing with group 1? I think we're just waiting to roll the round. Even if it's a TPK, I think we'd all like to find out what happened and get some closure. 😅