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I can never remember everyone's bonds, flaws and ideals; especially in one-shot or public games. I think this is actually a slight problem with the system: remembering three things for each player is a lot to keep track of. 9 times out of 10 I just give it out for being awesome - figuring out...

Don't be put off, it's really very good. Like Gloomwrought, it has lots of encounter hooks that are actually useful at the table, as opposed to pages of background that's never likely to come up.

The rules compendium and the monster vault are the best reference books to have at the table. Most sessions, they're all I have with me. For campaign sourcebooks, Shadowfell: Gloomwrought and Beyond, Underdark, The Neverwinter Campaign Setting and The Plane Above: Secrets of the Astral Sea are...

Plenty of medieval weapons were adapted from agricultural tools though. Flails, for example. But I get your point.

This has now raised over £500 for GamesAid! That's almost $800. Thanks to all who have donated. JustGiving don't take American Express, which is a real shame. Thank you for trying though!

Think of a schtick for the city that will lodge it in your players' imaginations. Remember when... ...we went to that city ruled by a medusa where all the guards were gargoyles. ...we went to that city that was crumbling into the Underdark. ...we went to that city that had a flying carpet taxi...

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I'd argue that in RPG terms, a minnow buys a set of dice, a t-shirt or a single miniature for their character, a dolphin buys a core book or occasionally buys the odd box of miniatures, and a whale buys the limited edition deluxe rulebooks or stacks of Dwarven Forge scenery (I prefer fans and...

Many thanks for all the support, folks! I hit my funding goal today - which is fantastic! - but the raffle runs for another 2.5 weeks yet so there's still plenty of time to donate. It's only £2.50 a ticket!

I'd make the tavern surrounded pretty much right from the start. Introduce a small cast of quirky NPCs: a traveling merchant, a minstrel, a pair of eloping lovers, a quack-cure charlatan, perhaps a noble and her maid en route to a wedding. Play on all those horror movies tropes where the heroes...

The scariest monster I ever ran was a mundane wild boar in WFRP. One of the characters came up against it while hunting in the woods, got chased, gored, and eventually ended up almost bleeding to death while hiding up a tree. It sounds simple, but the whole episode felt like a medieval version...

Most of my masterminds end up as humans or elves though :)

Hags make good masterminds. I've not run a campaign with a hag as the *main* mastermind, but I've run plenty of fun adventures with hags as the main villains. A covey of hags could be the mastermind for all sorts of plots.

Even Neutral characters can cause problems when theft comes into play. We had a big row when one of my players pocketed a jewel on the sly. The player who caused such a fuss eventually admitted "getting treasure is why I play D&D: and you're spoiling that", which I thought was an honest and...

I noticed that the slam attacks of a flesh golem are specifically called out as counting as magical weapons (for some reason). If the trait exists, you'd think it would be used for the lycanthrope too? I'm with you though - I'd go with houseruling it to be the special case of "vs. other...

Bursting in like a SEAL team suggests to me they did stealth up beforehand to the door (or windows, or whatever). Basically, if the other party is completely unaware of the threat until the very last second - for whatever reason - I'd totally grant surprise. I think the rules should be malleable...

I'm weary of loner characters. Backstories that have families wiped out, and personality traits that make the character standoffish or gloomily withdrawn. It's like the player's actively trying to sever any opportunity to connect with the world, and teasing out their personality in-game often...

Top work! Many thanks!!

Would be great to find out what that adventure was - I actually posed this question because I have a similar idea!

What happens to a familiar when its summoner dies? I don't have the books in front of me, but I can't remember this being mentioned in the spell description. Is it? If not, has this topic ever been discussed? Is the world full of familiars summoned by long-dead wizards? Or do they return to...