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(Sorry for the double post, I'm still getting used to the forum code again) Another possible reaction for the monsters in this case is one of my favorites, even though I've only ever done it once. Think about it. A village is attacked every night by a troupe of powerful monsters. They come in...

FWIW, this is exactly how monsters in my dungeons react. However, if the drow outpost pulls up stakes and moves out after a couple days of assault by the PCs, after they did their best to ambush and fortify, their camp won't stay uninhabited forever. Mindless monsters will move in and pick over...

This is one place where the vocabulary makes understanding and communicating a bit clunky. When I say "I'm simulationist" in this conversation, I'm just talking about the rest cycles and rules of 13th age vs. something like stock 5E. What I'm definitely NOT saying is that I strive primarily for...

I liken it to comic books and their associated spinoff media projects. Sure, comics themselves are borderline profitable, if at all. But the goal with comics is basically to establish an IP that can then be turned into a movie, or Netflix show, or video game, preferably all of the above plus...

That one is easy for me too; if it really is a safe place that wandering monsters don't travel, I won't roll on the random encounter table! That is in fact simulationist, I would say, because the whole point of rolling on the random monster table is that the dungeon isn't static, some monsters...

And as I've said before, I both allow the PCs to try to rest there if they want, and I'm completely okay with them novaing once a day and then retreating to safety to recover, if they can do so safely. I have, in fact, run old school dungeon crawls using this method, and my experience is that...

It's been a while since I played 13th Age, and I'd forgotten about the escalation die. But it was hands down my favorite thing from the system, a huge boon for game flow and very exciting at the table. I stole it for a while for my 4E game back in the day, then apparently forgot about it. I...

Coming from the simulationist perspective, I don't think it's that bad, at least in 5E where I currently play. First off, I try to stay away from the sillier limitations you mentioned for preventing excessive resting. My reasons tend to be something like "if you try to rest here, there's a good...

I like the elegance of 13th age's "heal up after a number of encounters" design, but it still picks at the raw spot of my simulationist tendencies enough that I prefer the 5E "rest" mechanics in play even though they can be very inconsistent to plan around. I'm always looking for a compromise...

Animated Armor 24 Bronze Scout 14 Cadaver Collector 19 Flesh Golem 24 Flying Sword 24 Helmed Horror 24 Homunculus 16 Iron Cobra 7 Iron Golem 26+1=27 Marut 21 Pentadrone 10 Quadrone 7 Retriever 22 Rug of Smothering 15 Scarecrow 20 Shield Guardian 22 Steel Predator 25 Stone Cursed 10-2=8 Stone...

Clearly the chainsword was just making gamerules for the chainsaw sword item which first appeared in the 1992 D&D movie "Army of Darkness".

I played in a friend's custom system long ago that had a similar mechanic, where you got 3 AP refreshed every turn and could spend them on actions, but you could store AP between turns and it would cost like 6 or 7 AP for really big attacks. It was a very Final Fantasy inspired system actually...

Oh yeah, I think video game RPGs owe an INCREDIBLE amount to D&D and other TTRPGs. Both Western and Japanese, actually. D&D did it, they were inspired by it, new editions of D&D were in turn inspired by them, and onward the pop culture worm turns. I'm not super worried about the provenance of...

Since you had originally asked for "any fiction" where a hero totes around a golf bag of weapons for different situations, I submit Zelda: Breath of the Wild, or really any of a number of RPGs and adventure video games. In those games, having an arsenal to suit the situation is not only normal...

On the one hand, I do agree that 5E was written such that a by-the-book, standard encounter is ASSUMED to be something that a group of PCs will eventually defeat, even allowing for bad luck or poor decisions. There is a lot of slack given to basically guarantee the PCs win. Posing a serious...

Not gonna lie, that looks like an awesome encounter. Something like my friends and I would have on the last third of the night, with most of the beers finished off. I kind of want to play in that campaign.

I'm guessing a mobile gacha game with exciting characters like Drizzt, Elminster, the Lord of Blades, and Snails from the D&D movie, with exciting freemium gameplay! Also a battle royale game where you are dropped into the maze of Undermountain and have to loot equipment and fight off other...

On the one hand, I agree with you. I think that the media is having a grand old time whipping up hysteria about the outbreak, and that it isn't the world-toppling pandemic that some people have been led to believe. I also think that I'm not personally going to the event, or planning it, or...

Even if Pax gets tanked and the BG3 event cancelled, I try to keep it in perspective. Lots of people affected by the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak (jeez that name makes it sound like a Shadowrun adventure hook) far worse than not getting to see their videogame as soon. I mean, I definitely am...

It would also be kind of cool, because I already think Rebels (the animated Star Wars show) did a lot to show what an ensemble Star Wars adventure would look like, one that acts more like a D&D party than the main characters of the movies ever did. A time period source book that used the art...