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But we can get the latter one confused with plane -> Ebene :D Then again, it is worse in English where you got plains, (cosmological) planes and (flying) planes Seriously, the word "planes" confused the hell out of me as a new D&D player

Session 44 Murder on Mutravir Island The next morning, we're among the first people to leave bed – just as we expected. We use this spare time to chat a bit with the guards who also act like servants and whatever the guests of this manor desire. (okay, this sounds a bit wrong. But I don't...

That's what I have been saying for more than 1 1/2 years now... but I've been told that I'm having badwrongfun and better switch to another game when I suggested that 5e needs knobs to adjust for the number of encounters/rests per day depending on your playstyle and environment... because no...

Wow, that team is huge and looking quite promising! Is it still too early to call Morrus the Tobi Sammet of TTRPGs?

Umm, one way to slightly nerf DEX would be to make INT (already the red-headed stepchild of 5e) apply to Initiative instead of DEX. Then, just uncouple a few skills from DEX to make them more fluid in the default assumption (Y'know, the way skills were originally advertised back in the 5e...

And thank you for writing such fantastic adventure paths with realistic and fleshed out recurring NPC :) Yeah, we once got told that our playstyle is rather slow and dialogue-focused. But that's one benefit of having a really low number of players and it really isn't for everyone. And the way...

(caution: long post ahead) Thinking inside the chimney (Or: Obscon, Part1) One by one, we retrieve the other unconscious Obscurati agents from the Absurdist's Web and let Grappa perform the ritual of possession. During this process, we learn that Kiov Hetman worked for an ancient ghost called...

This is a very wonderful and richly detailed insight into ZEITGEIST and its modules, so thank you :) Should I ever try to DM it myself or make a more novel-like writeup of our campaign, I'll definitely use it as a second opinion. I have and will continue to discuss some of the issues or...

so... make this basically Ravenloft in space without Strahd? And you end there with your whole world? I actually like this idea! (To be honest it would have been a perfect mid-to endgame setting for my first campaign "Nightfall/Riftwalkers" which was basically throw a bunch of young adults from...

Oh my names... One of my first serious characters in an RPG was a woman named Mirai, which is japanese for "future" as she was the last female member of her people and the game was loosely based on the FF series. Also played a character called Amao Rufuran Tesla, accountant by day, elemental...

I've played enough JRPGs to throw real life biology and physics out of the window in fantasy RPGs. And that's from someone with a scientific background who's constantly nitpicking on scifi movie inadequaties

My opinion: You can give the NPC orc guard a strength build and the halfling guard a dexterity build and the high elf guard an int-based mage build to show that certain people tend to favor one archetype over the other without having to influence PC stats. Also big yes for other means to...

My PHB crashed on the binding as well... never had that problem before, my 3.x books were pretty much indestructible

I really see the "leader type" / charismatic fighter dabbling into bard territory and I don't think that this is a bad idea. They both fall into the niche of being inspirational, but where the bard uses magic and song and artistry, the leader fighter uses rhetoric, deeds and presence. In...

For me: Either freeform, or bound to class. I hate limiting your player's class/species combos too much and unless you give the oddball (i.e. orc bard or halfling fighter) some other benefit, you will limit what many call "viable choices", especially as many players prefer low-to-midlevel play...

the combat prowess of the fighter in a "fair" 1on1 scenario isn't the problem with the class imo. The problem is that is is lacking in terms of high level fluff/utility. I agree with the OP's ideas because the fighter is a very broad, unspecialized class per se. Fighters can be everything and...

I'm not that surprised by psionics and Strongholds. There is an excellent 3PP book on the market about strongholds&followers and I guess that most people who are interested in these themes already got that very dedicated tome. So why try to reinvent the wheel and waste precious development time...

Interesting article. In our regular group, we had all of it, and almost never fought "for XP" or "for loot". Funnily, we are and were playing pretty much story-driven despite using modules, and were still cautious because our characters were seldom suicidial idiots. (and yes, we did have the...

I understand your fears as my own players saw right through the whole scene pretty quickly. So if your players are like mine, then I'd suggest you could alter the scene a bit. Lee is the Harbormaster of Seaquen and we all know that there are rough types around harbors. So maybe make Brutus and...

Done! Just curious... you're not going to make a cluster analysis to find out about possible archetypical players who might want different thing but form cohesive patterns, are you? Because this would be... fascinating =)