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I think Stealth can work vs tremorsense, but you have to have something you can hide in. Which for something that perceives via vibrations means allies, enemies, other creatures or moving things. A creature with tremorsense would need to roll perception to distinguish a halfling from a horse...

That's kind of my point. Having a place where game-related conversation can happen does a lot. It's a bit of interaction out of the game. Odds are two people will make 90% of posts (the gm and the most prolific player) but the others will chip in from time to time. And if it includes the...

You don't have a game site? I started with a yahoo group back in the 90s. Now I use a Google site. Even a ddb thread or two does a lot.

One thing 3e did right was have a system for determining what PC- & NPC-class people are likely in any community. "high magic" and "low magic" settings weren't unbounded terms, it was relative to the RAW. This established a baseline for the availability mechanics. A village with 30 people...

Have you considered pretending to play Warhammer 40k but actually running Space Hulk? You and the one RP guy can discuss the will of the Emperor before pulling the handle on the drop ship that slams the PCs into a mass of tyranids. If they don't all want to be marines, make them part of some...

Fwiw https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/study-playing-dungeons-dragons-helps-autistic-players-in-social-interactions/

From a setting standpoint, they need the artic to be impassable. No boats making it to Russia, no survivable route across the Bering ice. They could have gone full ice age down to 38th or 37th parallel but that would have wiped out all the civilizations north of the Mason Dixon, plus the maps...

They do have a "divergent world" setting and added a bunch of environmental and ecological phenomena after the purple comet. Some of that is the rational for why there's been no contact with Europeans. I remember what appeared to be major volcanic eruptions culminating with a mini-ice age...

I was wondering about that. I mean, it was a highly popular movie franchise and widely beloved but it doesn't seem like something with the same fandom as d&d.

The "tool kits" were a great thing. While I loved Aurora's Catalog, it was bonkers. Exceptional items are fine as long as there's a clear utility. In 5e Adamantine is a magical material that loses its specialness in an antimagic field so these are magic items. (Not my rule, I find it weird)...

Hey! We used those last session! The warlock used the mirror to look around corners in a demonic temple. And the paladin's collapsible pole blocked a door in a hallway without using spikes.

It also applies to your Steed's attacks while you are mounted. (assuming the "share spell" aspect of steed hasn't changed)

A friend of mine exploded once. He doesn't recommend it. He delivered oxygen to nursing homes and his van exploded. Five things kept him alive. He made his dex save. Only 55% of his body burned. He wrapped his body around the steering column, protecting his face, lungs, eyes, chest and...

Keeping a focused healer around is a Good Thing (tm). And Belkar did learn from Shojo about the value of allies.

I take a lot of my cues from Earthdawn. There are unwritten rules for non-adventurers. Treat all adventurers as heroes in the hopes they lean into it rather than deciding to be villains and level the village. Magic is incredibly useful and anyone with it can be both a massive boon to society...

I realized I had implicitly answered my own question on how to handle tests that realistically require multiple distinct steps reliant on different stats without rolling repeatedly: make the character roll using the weakest stat because that is likely where they will fail. A carpenter working...

There is a broad sweet spot for granularity in the market where desirability drops off very quickly on either side side. Venture beyond it and you become a dreaded "niche" game. Anathema to Hasbro Inc. As fate would have it, I was in a "historic combat fencing" club in college (sponsor was...

Speaking as an engineer who has to grudgingly do far more carpentry than I want, this is a gap in system granularity you don't want to stick your hand in. Meaning that from base principals I can reason out what to do for a lot of complex carpentry. "Cut this board along this angle to get a...

I am going to show my age but that is 100% Lyta Fjord