Search results

VSM was ditched for B/X and BECMI in the '80s. The game was fine without it.

Yeah, it does look like an evolution on Daggerheart's character sheets. I'd forgotten about the WFRP boxed set with the cards (and how much I initially enjoyed it). That thing is dense! I can very much see this being expanded with additional card sets, like the 4E power decks for the various...

Yes, but not if the current wielder is still alive (unless, I guess, you're Elminster). That's all the DM has to say to deny you access. And I don't believe that's the only case where something like that may be true. Thinking of folks like Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Usaine Bolt and the...

Go ask the Spellfire wielder.

I skipped ahead a few pages, so forgive me if this has already been covered. One of the big things that used to come up in the old games I ran was "your character knows what you know." If someone could, for example, describe how they open a stuck door by hammering out the hinge pins and taking...

This is from Forge of Foes (which is a really good monster design book BTW). It fairly matches my play experiences, so I trust it (though I wish it tracked above 20th level PC equivalent in some way).

I'm nowhere near perfect and always learning something. As a previous "forever DM", I've been getting a serious education of what it's like to be on the player side of the screen of late. Still, point taken. I just don't like it being insinuated I'm a complete newb or moron for how my...

If I can't find a stat block for one in one of the monster books I have, would probably build it from scratch. If it was in the middle of a session, I'd find the closest pre-existing match and use that, with any bard-like mods to make it feel right (like, adding Inspiration as noted earlier)...

I would hope people are being truthful about their responses, not just bandwagoning on heresay. Since the start of 5E I had been vocal about not wanting a 6E, as I am frankly tired of edition churn for churn's sake (thanks, GW). The 2024 books come too close to an edition shift for my tastes...

Yes to all, 3 separate campaigns. I've been DMing since the 80's, and 5E since it came out. It's all to easy to accidentally fall into the trap "Okay, the players handled that last one okay, they ought to be able to handle this..." and then be wrong in some way (or straight up, an encounter...

I made the mistake of getting the 2024 DMG and MM, hoping I could salvage something from them to my liking (the PHB was an utter loss, so I did not purchase it, though my wife has a copy I have perused). I give it a 2 out of 10, a rehash that changes everything I liked about the game and didn't...

Come sit at my table, and I'll show you otherwise. I've done it at least thrice in 5E alone.

We must play very different D&D. I've seen 15th level 5E parties get wiped within a handful of rounds.

...Or that they are all up in it. What does WPN stand for? Wizard's Preferred Network?

I have to analyze how I do things and state I'm in the opposite camp. The PCs are different and more exceptional because of their importance to the story at hand. And yeah, I'm a story DM who cares more about the antics of the player characters over an ever-changing group. It's bitten me more...

This bothers me. I like to think of myself as a creative fellow, and “just reskin this stat block” frustrates me. Yes, it works - but I like to be able to have more uniqueness than similarities in the things I run. Sure, I might be able to use a basilisk as a “young” Medusa via a reskin, but...

I have no issue with the different methods of building "monsters" vs. PCs/DMPCs. If I want a NPC who will be travelling with and aiding the party, I will build out an actual character. If I expect them to be pure opposition, I'll just use monster stats. Back in 2014, I started to build...

Dragonborn, Goliath and Dwarf in that order. Big, small or a dragon, all gruff.

I feel like I was just be talked to by Tasslehoff Burrfoot. Guess I should check my pockets....