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It is either a sign of the apocalypse or doesn’t mean anything at all, just another Tuesday. Nothing in between.

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So recently, the PCs in my home group drew some cards from the Deck of Many Things, and one of them drew the FLAMES card, garnering "the enmity of a devil." Unfortunately, in another example of the limited practical utility of the Book of Many Things, there is not much guidance for what this...

I just ran into Joe Manginello at the local ice cream shop. I gave him the chin jut but I didn’t want to interrupt his time with family (he grew up near here and went to the same HS as my wife). I did want to say I was sad his Dragonlance project fell through, but refrained.

Ah! In other words, the pit of despair. If I am not climbing out of it at some point in painting a mini something is definitely wrong. 😂

If we define racism as a group (or groups) in social and economic power systematically exploiting a segment of society either intentionally or unintentionally in order to maintain that power and potentially extract resources from that subgroup, whose purported negative traits are believed to be...

I rewrote MCDM’s Beastheart as a Ranger subclass.

My old 2E group used speed factors and casting time, but just added them to the d10 roll and then counted up. (I can't even remember anymore if that was just the rule in 2E or something we modified). I vaguely remember a rule about going at the end of the round if you changed your declared...

I kept 6th through 9th level spells in the form of class abilities that allow the spell caster to access them at a cost and/or risk and/or responsibility. And usually can only be used once per long rest (depending on the specific class/form of access) Bard: Songs of Power Cleric: Quest Spells...

One thing I probably should have mentioned is that when I first posted this thread my daughter had not even been conceived, let alone born yet. I definitely played fewer sessions in the first two years of her life, but I still managed to keep two games going and started squeezing in 20 to 40...

I think that potential disconnect of interest is part of the reason why keeping a playful attitude (there is probably a better/academic word for how I am using "playful" here) during prep is a way to engage that interest on the part of the GM, without forcing it onto players who are not as...

Certainly. But I guess the question that jumps to mind is how might approaching prep as a form of play help those DMs who do find it onerous? (Another question being, if some folks find it so onerous , why do they do it?) Again, sure. But it is more unnecessary for some GMs (or systems) than...

Resurrecting this thread because I have been thinking about DM prep and the varying attitudes about it regarding the amount of time it takes and how onerous it might be. Looking back at my original post, I have made so many pieces of terrain of various sizes and degree of detail and literally...

I love the feeling of a well-played one-shot or really any individual session (played the 62nd session of one of ongoing campaigns yesterday and it was a great one). Sounds like it went great and your notes look like you thought through a bunch of fun possibilities. Like others, however, I...

We just finished this session a couple of hours ago. .. Quick recap The group's Long Rest is interrupted by Birdbrainbeakedopus (aka Grell) and some Volts. Using strategic combat tactics and spells, they defeat the aberrant creatures. After an easier and faster trip downriver, they have another...

This is similar to my Vanity Frankenstein 5E project. (<-- some of the things the intro post<s> describe are no longer true as the rules have developed - but near the end is a link to a google drive with PDFs for the chapters as they currently-ish stand).

What i like about my stat draft method is that I can throw a few low scores on the array for those who want to choose them (without someone having to have one if they don’t) and the benefit is that the person who chooses the lowest score each round picks first the next.

My bad for assuming. I never played either version. Can't remember what the actual rule was for B/X (which is what I started with), as except for the GLARING differences (no multiclassing, race as class, etc), I get a lot of pre-3E stuff mixed up, since well, we generally played with stuff from...