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Casters don't have d4 hit die anymore, though. That gap closed a bit when wizards etc were upped to a d6.

Lol yeah, the lantern shield was "real" and no one has any real idea of its practical purpose afaik, because it looks like something you'd get from a knife shop in a mall :'D I think it just goes to show that everyone gets crazy ideas now and again, and the results might not be ... useful.

I think this is where the idea came from, at least for my groups.

OK so I've tussled with this a bit as a GM, I've gone back and forth... lanterns: Wear them on your belt, yes or no? Is it RAW (assume 5e or 5e-derivative such as A5E or ToV)? Is there anything supporting or denying it? Is it stupid and dangerous so no, it's not an option (because you'd have to...

Hide behind the pile of dead bards!

Ugh. One of the few times that I regret not fudging dice was with a first-time player, we spent an hour making his lvl1 dragonborn sorcerer, he got crit insta-dead in the first round of the first encounter by the two goblins at the start of Phandelver. On the other hand, as a seasoned DM, if my...

I basically never gamble at casinos, etc. Twice I have, ever, because that's where bachelor parties were... I will say that I played on machines that I liked the intellectual property of- one was Lord of the Rings, and another was.. was it Star Trek? That'd be ironic. I don't know if my $5 was...

The latter part :) And I wasn't deriding it, it's just looking at design from, like I said, more of a gameist perspective as opposed to simulationist. But you're in good company, that's how 5e's been headed since the late 2010's. I'm not sure where I fall on that gameist-simulationist curve...

Sounds like a 4e solution. Not that that's bad, 5e has gone in a distinctly more gameist direction over its development cycle, which heads more in the 4e direction.

Alter to need, ofc :D https://a5e.tools/node/1832

Yeah "modern" DnD, 3e and afterwards, has a lot more to keep track of. I play OSE with a group still, that we play purely Theater of the Mind no problem... but modern DnD has a lot of moving bits and pieces.

Ha well, my hurdle was just understanding how all the different notes + links worked together, were set up etc. That's why I mentioned wanting a campaign to reverse-engineer, just having a little generic skeleton of a thing with all examples of linkings etc; that's how I learn best...

I think this depends on a lot of factors.. what the GM likes, what the players like, what game you're playing, etc. Call of Cthulhu is distinctly a non-battlemap game. DnD can play sans battlemap just fine if the battles don't have too many enemies/moving pieces, but it can benefit from one. A...

Yes, re: Archivist AI. It seemed to remove chitchat well enough.

To be clear, you're saying that cover is neeldess/onerous and is usually ignored? It comes up very frequently in my games- all the time, in fact, if you're a frequent ranged attacker. I have, however, heard the same thing about height and falling damage, that taking features that...

I have a few players that turn off the music entirely, and a few that request it- there's no middleground, it seems. I mainly have it for me... mostly nostalgic stuff, like Baldurs Gate 1+2 music for combats and Icewind Dale music for exploration etc etc.

Yeah I guess I'm in some playtester account setup... whoops :'D I haven't used it in a while (it worked fine but I just never kept up with reviewing the session summaries so like many new shiny things, it fell by the wayside for my ADHD arse).

Wow, I did a playtesting for them when they were just getting started... looking at it, my account is apparently still on some free deal 🤷‍♂️ I don't even have the option to set up a paid plan when I'm logged in 😅

Appreciate reviews like these, I'm sure they're very helpful to a lot of folk here :) Obsidian.md's been a hurdle I couldn't get over... I couldn't grok it, and I didn't have an "Example DnD Campaign" to load up and reverse-engineer tounderstand what made it tick :( I'm jealous of folk that...

Wow, thanks for the info and thank you for writing some of my favorite DnD novels! edit: I really pulled from the Black Rose books when I ran Ravenloft- I even adopted Azrael Dak as an NPC that came to Barovia on behalf of his master, he had tasks for the party that would upset Strahd, and my...