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Most people say this, but it is not my experience. I've run 3.5 and Pathfinder 1 to level 20 (and beyond for Wrath of the Righteous) and am now gamemastering 5E at level 12. I find the former worked quite well all the way to 20, whereas 5E is starting to feel like it has a lot of friction. My...

Here is a literally 5-minute sketch for the infirmity of diabetes: [Edit, worked it over just a bit] Diabetic You suffer from diabetes. You need to keep a very strict diet consisting mainly of fat and lots and lots of water. You have to live at least a Modest lifestyle to afford this. Failure...

If a player character starts out with diabetes type 1 and wants that to be a plot element in the campaign, you don't want it to be curable. Like the Pathfinder Oracle's curses, it would be a part of your natural state and thus the point to which all restoration and healing spells retore you...

A problem with using only files so old they are in the public domain to train AIs is that the AIs will then absorb the prejudices of that era.

This is the first time I've seen the word "cromulent". It seems to be close to the Swedish word "lagom". This is what Chat GPT had to say on the subject: While "lagom" and "cromulent" may seem similar in suggesting adequacy or appropriateness, "lagom" is a real word deeply rooted in Swedish...

A recent use I have put Chat GPT to, not only when writing for RPGs, is as a dictionary. I have a tendency to not remember a certain word when I need it, particularly in English. My native language is Swedish. It can answer questions like "What was the name of the monster in Mary Shelley's...

if you don't want druids to wield scimitars in your world, its very easy to change. What weapons druids use is a setting detail. The standard druid using them is implied setting - like the best armor being plate or wizards using spellbooks. Implied setting should stand down to actual setting.

The problem is not hat a few spells can have economic impact. The problem is the lack of spells with an economic impact - and that the few ones that do have an impact become weird when not accompanied by many more that are made for the economy. Then again, when you look at the literature, it is...

I'm extremely careful about the effect of spells and effects on the economy. D&D is written as a game for adventures, often in dungeons, and everything in the game is described from this point of view. Spells and effect that affect the economy are simply outside the scope of the game. A few...

I'm going to put on my editor cap and be pretty brutal here, but its all intended to help. These are pointers that accord with my sensibilities, not points of debate, take them or leave them as you like. Conceptually, I think this could be a ranger subclass. Its already quite similar...

Thanks! I really think this is genuine abandonware, in that the bunch of files is pretty chaotic - not organized for resale. :)

Looking for Wicked Ones to download, but my Google-Fu is not enough at this hour. Any tips?

Thanks! Does indeed sound cool. I agree BitD needs localization, and doing that right is quite tricky but can be really nice!

"You heroes handle this yourselves despite us having mighty resources" is a common problem in adventurers, no gods required. I particularly remember a Cyberpunk adventure set in Japan that involved some large-scale weapons smuggling and a planned attack on the diet (parliament). Japan is...

This sound interesting. Can you give a short description? This is what I found googling: https://moth-lands.itch.io/moth-light

I use AI in three ways. As a suggestions box. "Give me ten random encounters in situation X" As a secretary "Rewrite this text in the voice of X" or "Rewrite this at a lower reading level" As an image generator. This is fun, but the results are bad. It takes hundreds of generated images to...

Oh, I'd ignore the reference to FR and place it entirely in Greyhawk. If the adventure makes this difficult, that is a point against it for me.

As I GM I really aim for this and mostly succeed. As a player... well other GMs' ambitions are not the same.

When we suffered a TPK back in the early eighties, our DM let us reincarnate our characters as basically any creature we want. The other players chose Titan and Kirin, I choose Doppelganger (and got to keep my class features). The combination of reading minds and taking any humanoid form is...

What I wonder about most is the mood and themes of the adventure. Is Vecna as a lord of secrets well represented? Does Vecna try to find the secret that will bend each of his opponent's to his will? I am also considering using the adventure as a continuation for my Kingmaker adventure path set...