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As previously mentioned, spellbooks are great loot. Wizards (mostly) will have a small spellbook with them while traveling and a more complete book (or series of them) at their base of operations. Some may keep their whole library in a bag of holding, others might use a demi plane, but generally...

Immobilize him with: Hold person Tasha's hideous laughter Grappling Tangleroot bags Nets Sentinel Feat Banishment Insert difficult terrain: Plant growth Spike growth Grease Traps (eventually he will fail a roll) Rough ground Broken furniture Knock him away: Telekinesis Repelling Blast The...

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I'm leaning away from Dogs. Looks like I am ordering both Savage Worlds for broad 5e replacement material, and We Deal in Lead as a less homebrew/reskinning intensive Gunslinger game, and if I don't like the mechanics then I'll pull as much fluff as possible and use SW. For this particular...

Stop playing? No. Actually, Hell no. Stop buying? Abso-frikin-loutely, and not just D&D. Anything Hasbro touches will be a no go. No more MTG. No more boardgames. No video games they develop. Nothing.

Thanks for the replies. Savage Worlds is going to be my fallback, but We Deal in Lead is tailor made for this.

Is Drakkenheim as good as it looks? Those Canadian fellas have one of my favorite YT channels and I've been tempted to grab the setting

With the OGL dust up, I started thinking about new systems, which snowballed to new settings. Before I knew it, I'm scouring my bookshelves for inspiration and BAM! Steven King is just sitting there looking at me and tapping his feet. My first thought was Call of Cthulhu for various short...

Nerull's black balls! I'd hope you have things figured out after 40+ years.

I'm waiting to see if Chicken Little is correct before I jump onto this bandwagon. There are easy fixes to the new OGL that could keep me playing D&D, but if they move forward with the leaked agreement... Well, I've always wanted to try GURPS.

Sure, but first I'd like to mention that I agree with you. Every setting needs room to grow. Every map needs some blank space. Every court needs a few nameless NPCs to build out. Rumors, plot hooks, and contradictions, etc. all add opportunities for a DM to really make their own game in a...

I find the points you make about leaving details unfinished so that DMs can flesh them out as desired, a bit at odds with the response to recent releases from WOTC. Particularly since much of the grumbling seems to come from posters who allegedly enjoyed Greyhawk. I wonder what has changed.

How Appalachian are we trying to be? Technically, the mountain range extends into Scottland, and they pronounce it... ... nevermind. Definitely not worth the flack.

100% with you on this one. Completely disagree here. Using minion-esque enemies allows the fantasy of cutting through mobs of mooks, and it allows adding more monsters to an encounter without turning combat into a slog. In those aspects, no other edition was superior to 4e. (Yes, I did just...

This. The number of species we have driven to (near)extinction in the real world is either impressive or depressing, depending on viewpoint. If it is bigger than a bread box, a threat, and not easily domesticated then chances are quite good that we obliterated it. Dragons, being undeniably...

It doesn't have to be high CR creatures. A larger group of mooks makes a very good challenge, especially if they are positioned so that AOEs can't catch more than 2 or 3 of them. Anchor the mooks with 2-3 more appropriate threats and watch combats get real heated, real quick. My first PC death...

Sure. Its harder than 1&2e, but if your baseline is still "housecats are deadly," then I can't really help you. In every edition since, PCs have been far more resilient. In 3e they weren't quite as hard to kill in a vacuum, but healers were far more proficient at actual healing. In 5e we get...

Where ya at, Max? I'll make the trip just to show you how wrong this is, but I am tired of correcting "iTs hArD 2 kIlL pCs" online.

That's the problem with blanket statements. One can only say that some powergamers are a problem with any claim to accuracy, but one could also make the same statement about frequent posters to EN World, guys named Keith, or anyone who decorates using wallpaper. The odds are that those...

Wikipedia, while not usually way off the mark, is not what most would consider a source worth citing. It is, however, a good starting point and often has links that lead to more established sources. As a powergamer, I can confirm that they missed the mark here. I min-max and optimize almost...