Search results

Probably not. It's just one of the few ways I can see differentiating the setting from FR enough to warrant a publication.

That makes sense on paper, but in practice -- or when describing it on the back of a book -- both settings sound like the same generic fantasy setting. Back in the 3e days, I knew people that thought Greyhawk was just a different region of Forgotten Realms. In some ways, I think Dragonlance...

Um, increasing stats was pretty difficult in 2e, unless your DM was just handing out tomes amd manuals like candy. Or wishes, i guess...

I would love to go back to the 2e method for dealing with these things. Ability checks were just rolling equal or under your score. Skills were optional, and ideally the DM just let you succeed at stuff that wasn't specifically mentioned elsewhere (bending bars, etc), or roll an ability check...

Or why not play a board game if that's all you want to get out of it? Having players that actually think beyond the character sheet results in truly amazing stories being told. Perhaps you've just not been part of that, though.

Yes, and on it's own it's simply an action. But what if the shiny new lock on a sturdy chest is located within supposedly long-abandoned or sealed tomb? Suddenly, a random property of the lock *could* open up some questions if the person took a moment to actually think about it in...

That makes sense to a point, but I'm not going to turn everything into a game with win/loss conditions. Sometimes I just want to describe a scene in a way that you can better settle into character and start making decisions beyond the normal what-skills-am-i-proficient-in ones. Other times I...

Yeah, I keep meaning to throw an animated object at him one of these days. "The carpet you didn't care about roars to life and shows you a 'whole new world' of pain; roll your damn initiative."

I think my players just have really bad spacial imagination. One of them actually did say something a few years ago that she simply cannot visual distances and even has trouble with depth perception. That was what prompted me to start trying to describe things differently for her, although the...

My criticism is not directed at you. I don't particularly like your art style, to be fair, but that's not at all what it was about. I just think WotC's decision to go cheap and not include possibly the single most important visual component of a setting is a really bad one. It's like they...

You had me excited, thinking it was actually a proper Faerun map. Turns out it's just the regional map that should have been included with the SCAG in the first place.

You mean another 5e product with little to no map support? Who'd-a-thunk?!

Thanks for the update. It's surprisingly difficult to actually kill or really challenge players in 5e, without hard-countering their weaknesses, and I kind of hoped this adventure would show how it *can* be done... Guess not.

Give them stealth, because that's the only explanation for how easy it is to sneak up on the living people the way they do. Seriously, the camera will pan around a dude in a sparse clearing with dead leaves on the ground, only to be surprised a few seconds later by an off-camera zombie that...

"How big is the room?" literally seconds after I just described it. It's like some people just zone out during the descriptions and can't imagine anything beyond a set number of squares. It's gotten so bad that I now have to figure out ways of describing things without stating measurements...

Anchorage, AK also has (had last time I checked) a healthy number of e3 titles and a surprisingly high number of the Tiles boxes. I'm pretty sure this is just an inventory issue where the company purchased way too many at a discount and was never able to rid of them. As more stores close, they...

Then it's going to depend on your setting. It's also going to depend on if you intend the book to be useful as a reference during play, or logically ordered for another purpose (such as character creation). There's really no template, though. My personal thoughts: If the book is intended to...

I used to love Planescape, but I'm a bit baffled at its rise in popularity over the years. It seems like something a lot of people supposedly love, yet never bothered playing in -- otherwise they'd know just how difficult a setting it was to run. It's kind of like talking to someone who raves...

kanabo's never really had any "shield breaking" component to them in the first place. They're just better suited to bludgeoning damage compared to edged weapons because of reasons that are hopefully kind of obvious... What happens in someone reads wikipedia and see's a reference to the weapon...

I would go greatclub. I know you really want a massive damage weapon, but the kanabo was mostly just a heavy baseball bat with studs or spikes. A maul is more like a sledge hammer where all the weight is at the end, and wouldn't swing anything like a kanabo.