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5e Ravenloft as a player on VTT: Didn’t kill kobolds fast enough

Our gaming group in college thought the same. Now, at age 55, I think I on the West Coast, Bob who’s moving to Michigan, and the guy who made a career of game design in Finland (!) are the only ones still playing. But maybe some day?

After decades of complaining here about “balance” across many editions (3, 3.5, 4, 5 2014, 5 2024, probably more), it’s clear the rules aren’t the problem. Or if they are, doesn’t seem likely the issue will ever be “solved”.

I’ll go way out on a limb on a D&D fan site here and say “The World’s Most Popular Role Playing Game” (tm) is great as is. All editions, all settings, all tables, all classes are perfect for a lot of people - “the market has spoken”, as Stephen Colbert puts it. If you need “everyone is like a...

By that logic, creativity is the ultimate tool. Which circles back to which class you play is up to you, it’s not WrongBadFun for someone else to play a different class, different edition, or different way.

The keys to caster supremacy claims: assume high level play, no time pressure, players of non-caster classes who don’t play creatively, and opponents that don’t adapt to “casters are better” by coming up with countermeasures or concentrating their attacks on casters. I mean, sure: “Casters are...

TL;wS;Dr. wS, of course, means “wasn’t Snarf”. Will scroll down for Snarficles.

Midsummer Fair. Many Skill checks. (Email campaign #2, 3.5e Greyhawk)

After Teleport, Diplomacy at mercenaries (Email campaign #1, 3.5e Greyhawk)

Interesting. But I have only played PF1. I went to the first few PaizoCon’s - the first tiny one at Redmond Town Center and the next 2-3 at a hotel next to SEATAC airport. I guess I need to check out the online one.

The second person plural in formal English is “you”. If the question is informal English, it of course varies with the vernacular in question, which varies by country, region, class (something Americans pretend doesn’t exist), and race. I agree “y’all” is not only in the South, though it was...

Today, players in the lower-level part of my email campaign are attending a Midsummer fair (1st Richfest) in Thornward, Bissel in the Greyhawk setting. First up is an archery competition. Rules: Blue (AC 10) gets you 1 point. Red (AC 12) gets you 2 points. Bullseye (yellow, AC16) gets you 4...

Email game: Can someone translate this Tiefling?

Speak of the Devil: Saying the real name of the Old One (Greyhawk’s Iuz) or any devil or demon attracts their attention. This isn’t specific to 3.5e for me - used it when I first DM’d, which was Oriental Adventures “1.75e” in 1987.

Good stuff. I might yoink these Druid rules.

The China extra 10% tariff is still on, I think, but Canada and Mexico off, maybe EU coming soon. Hard to keep up.

It happens. Good on you for saying so.

Ball of zombies fiery explosion.

Production requires time, capital investment, and hiring. Chaos - like will they or won’t they tariffs - discourages capital investment and hiring until things are less unpredictable. It’s not like finance, where all the investors can jump in or out of NVIDIA stock in minutes on a rumor they...

What’s the TL;d-listen?