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I need a "the GM refuses to kill players" option. The last character I had that should have died was in a Cybergen game. The younger kids were fleeing some baddies and I decided to sacrifice my character by having the biker slingshot my tinman character at a fuel truck, road flare in...

Horrors....have the word "Horror" in them. Heck, a Wormskull was the intro story for one edition, and it was a near-TPK in that. It could have been a poorly planned encounter, but yeah, a GM who literally says "my NPCs can't die lame deaths" is straight up a problem. And honestly, kicking a...

I will always argue the opposite because I have gamed with too many people who have nearly nonexistent social awareness. I always want them to be able to play the Face just as well as the total klutz can play a monk. I treat social skills like the Battlemaster. PCs can make Insight tests to...

Not sure runes are much different from x^3 -9x^2 +26x -24[0->13] To most people

I voted (6-8) because it took us 28x 6-hr sessions to get from 8th to 14th. The lower levels should happen faster but 3 hour sessions are brief. Getting people into game-mode takes some time and with shorter sessions that is a larger percentage of the table-time lost to "what happened last...

Artificer and runes seem like they go well. Seems like a clear path from giantish-runes to Artificer Runes Knight -> Artificer (Armorer) -> Artificer (other) -> ?Runic Caster? So what would be the "pure caster" variant?

Has anybody here used MapTools? Or any other laptop-hostable VTT? Out group has in-person games, but we have a TV in a box as our battlemap. The problem is the current GM is constantly fighting IT. I'm thinking something run locally will behave better.

Exploration is a good low level arc. It provides that sense of growth as you go from "a muddy hillside could kill us all" to "anybody want a bear skin cloak?" I tend to keep the "points of interest" approach, at least if they make their navigation checks, but one point of interest is always...

You have the basic "quenched in the blood of a slave" but let's go more fantastic Forged in dragon breath/hands of a fire elemental/etc Cold forged by a giant/titan (bonus if frost giant) Eldritch-forged (Force damage) Engraved by a pixie/sprite/tiny fey Silk fabric woven by trained spiders...

I've done a lot of versions. God's that were so incredibly powerful they were prohibited from directly influencing mortal realms because their very presence would destroy it, with the gods of destruction constrained by the other gods vowing retribution. Gods that were bonded to demiplanes that...

A conditionally cursed Robe of Blending (3 speeds). It was sized for a Small creature. Anyone who activated it would gain the stealth bonus but if they were larger than Small it would deal damage as it sliced them down to size. It would only attune to Medium (4d6 damage) and Large (4d10...

Earthdawn. It's heavily invested in it's lore but I have used it to run a game set in 500AD with Romans, Norse, Huns, Egyptians and Persians.

Funny thing is 5e power level is generally lower than prior editions, at least for casters. 1e recharged slowly but had several times as many spell slots per day, plus enemy hit points were MUCH lower. 2e and 3e casters had volumes of slots and recharged quickly, plus hit points were less...

D&d is a high-magic game. Monsters fly without wings, beings from other planes walk through portals that open when the moon is in the right place and every major city has a temple where people can ask gods for hints. Which doesnt means it's impossible if you want a no-magic character. A mix...

That was an awesome game. My friends and I played the heck out of it and our quartet finished the game. We had hopes some of the Marvel games would recapture the same gameplay but they were such a lackluster set of clones.

They also took away the "or climb" verbage on movement. We use to use that to have the turret "climb" a PC to ride their shoulder. I also see that 2024 Dragon's Breath is an Artificer spell and now is a bonus action instead of a standard action. That's good for the Armorer and the Alchemist...

Oh, I didn't do hard math. I planned a lion-PC encounter and added the herd of gazelles several hundred strong to reflect the prey for the pride of lions mostly as background. With dragons it's mostly thinking about the territoriality and not putting them unreasonably close together, at least...

Which historic reality? Egypt had 1+M (est) ~3,000bce and up to 3M prior to Alexander & roman conquests (after which the population went up). The Persian empire of 500BCE had 20M+ (est). Carthage had an empire of 4M (est) in the 200s BCE. The Roman Empire had an estimated 60+ Million in the...

That or you can make the case that it will make more money or can plausibly avoid a material loss. I spent a lot of time on risk mitigation projects. Which is something WotC should have done to avoid those canceled accounts. Off topic

Yep. several times. A couple at a Fortune 100, the last one wrapped up last month. One particular process I shepherded from paper, to MSAccess (budget denied for 12+ months), to MSAccess + MS SQL (web developer budget denied, db budget approved) to IIS+MSQL ("why is this risk-management...