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So, the giants did indeed have concrete predetermined motivations. The players did put forward logical counters. The maths was skewed in the PCs favour. If the argument was one that was surprisingly good they would gain an advantage. But I didn't want the "greater good" argument to auto win the...

We allow tinkering in every other part of the system without having an issue if it morphed into something else. What would you call the below if not a Skill Challenge? Pillar: Social Pillar solely Goal: 6 Successes before 3 Failures or before all arguments are voiced (There were 8 arguments in...

Yes it would. I am fortunate to have the right table for this. To be clear this includes myself - being in the right headspace as GM. The levels for us are not as important as much as the story being fleshed out.

I reject this premise that says SC must be run abc. We certainly do not have that in combat, I do not see why there is this insistence that SC are only run like that. As we have seen on these very threads there are all sorts of ways initiative can be determined in combat. Sometimes a DM doen't...

I'm not an expert on Skill Challenges and we generally run things our way. I use the framework provided in 4e to run my Skill Challenges, but sometimes I deviate quite a bit from that structure. In yesterday's session the PCs were involved in a social Skill Challenge with some giants, where...

Only 1, and you call yourself a veteran. (smh) :p

That's because they will objectively survive longer than most NPCs they face.

Out of interest are those rules not included within Level Ups version of the game? I only have 1 of the 3 core books at the moment and cannot recall seeing them but to be honest it's not what I look for or why acquired the book.

Are you lamenting the removal of those rules from the game or you really need those rules to determine how a NPC reacts generally or in combat? Even in those instances when I may be unsure on which course of action the NPC could take or which PC the enemy may engage with in combat I announce to...

To be clear, I honour the roll. What is the point of being a gamist when you do not honour the game. The game + our homebrew rules have a whole bunch of get me out of jail options (even post death) so I don't feel bad if they never used them or were sloppy. If it's a climactic battle, then it...

Make the 10 feet boost make sense in the fiction...

So in D&D class affects experience. The simulationist in me desires a mechanic whereby age affects experience. The question is then how to balance the long-lived races with the shorter-lived ones. i.e. 100 year old elf with a 20 year old human Our currency as it is are languages, skills...

Somewhere a Murder of Kenku enthusiastically chirped in approval at this comment. I understand Auran.

Quo vadis @Snarf Zagyg?

So, giants have this caste system, the Ordning, which considers non-giants as lesser folk. I think it is fair to say an average interaction with a giant may see this thinking in play and one of the cool challenges for PCs when dealing with a giant is to try navigate this superiority mentality in...

If I'm not mistaken, some puzzles use Illusionism? The one that comes to mind is the maze at Xonthal's Tower (RoT, Episode 7)

What you have described above is pretty much my table's experience. Through the 90's - 2015's when I GMed we played in Mystara, different timelines, different locations with some cross-overs between characters as different parties experienced TPK's, break-ups or resolved their storylines. I was...

Metagame is an interesting one. I'm for metagaming where I deliberately make the mechanics player-facing as the the knowledge gained from those mechanics would be known by the characters and it is easier to relay that information via mechanics. It makes for better decision-making, and highlights...

Netflix (family subscription) so we are keeping it. Prime for myself + mom. I don't watch either much. Podcasts is more my thing.

Well the owlbear is a popular spirit animal