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You might want to look at one of the kojillion floor plan web sites on a junk email address and share the login with your group.

I use worldographer/hexographer for mapping. I got it as part of a bundle a while back. Much lower bar to entry than CampaignCartographer, which seems to revel in having a totally unique paradigm (aka very unpleasant learning curve). I was able to build & furnish a manor pretty easily.

I liked Earthdawn because it has success levels, but it is also a dice pool system where your Step is also the likely outcome combined with exploding dice that can result in infinite values (with a 1/infinity chance of occurrence, which isn't quite zero..., but a 1/1000 chance on a d6 is like a...

At the point of messaging 1,700 member businesses, it is essentially a public post. There is no way that some of those members wouldn't forward/post the email on ENWorld or other game news sites. But then it would be hear-say and the story becomes "is it real"? This way it's an...

"I'm not blind, I can see my nose and hands just find. There's just an illusion of absolute blackness a foot away from me in all directions." "I lay down down for cover from snipers, no one knocked me prone, so no advantage on melee attacks" "I'm not poisoned, they injected venom/anesthesia."...

Yeah, science fiction has the issue of "science" right in the title. If you aren't a science-y person and you pose a science-y problem, be prepared for science-y people to mess you up. This is like running a social based game while a player is an actual diplomat. I can "scifi" that into...

Based on a history of GAMA dysfunction, Lowe's allegations are plausible. Which doesn't mean they are factual, just that this isn't completely out of the blue. I personally feel the CEO probably should have had a more "proactive" response. Its probably something they would have wanted their...

I haven't seen comms directors but in 2024 the GAMA creative director Grace Collins resigned. Which could be normal churn. https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56540/grace-collins-resigns-gama-board 2022 GAMA board leadership cycled through 3 or 4 people, including Grace Collins (twice)...

To over simimplify, there is a "good" and a "bad" reason. The bad version is spite, plain and simple. There may be truth to the allegations, or it just wants to burn things down. The good version is a last "hail mary" attempt to affect a beneficial change on the way out the door. But from...

We play pretty tactically, so some of these are just a play style. I mean, tactics are not adversarial. Occasionally in the heat of the moment we all make mistakes, sometimes against the players, others the GM but we generally figure out the "right" way of doing things and just say "whoopsie...

Plots are 90% homebrew, with 10% being adventures I've found I can use with minimal effort. Rules...closer to 95% by the book, with a few setting-specific changes that are usually very easy to express on a single sheet of paper but also impactful. (I.E. Dragonlance(ish) in the period without...

Do players kill downed enemies? Yes? Then not adversarial. Do tigers kill downed foes, then drag the corpses into the brush to eat? Yes. Is the adversarial? No, it's the Ciiiiiiiiiiircle of Liiiiiiiiiiife. Meat is meat and dead things are meat. Now....did the GM have 14 dire tigers...

Yeah...sometimes stuff happens. I was running a Mage game and had a "wildlife" encounter in suburbia of semi-feral dogs. The player attempted to use mind magic to make the dogs go away with a fear aura. One lone pomeranian resisted, went psycho and proceeded to put a Mage in the hospital...

I had one GM who was out to get us. Cyberpunk 2020 is high lethality, so we weren't mad about getting blown up. What bothered us is that his NPCs were psychic and always had the perfect defense to our plans. We a acquire an oddball weapon (the "lightning gun"), the next BBEG had the specific...

Anything is possible. But those situations are memorable for their rarity. Here's the two times I can remember experiencing it over 30+ years of gaming: E.g. A VtM campaign, the GM had an npc intended to be helpful. They had a rich backstory deeply woven into the plot, so it couldn't readily...

That's not my experience. Plenty of days in tier3 & 4 where all I have left are cantrips, 1st, 4th and 7th slots. And in addition to cantrips, a lot of the time I am using an action to animate a non-concentration 6th level Major Image of an "Eversmoking Bottle" to blind enemies. I am sure...

Warlocks are designed to spam cantrips. Its their reason d'etre. They get a handful of spell slots per rest. If they arent a hexblade, spamming cantrips is all they get. Might as well be mad about fighters spamming "swing sword" or rogues spamming "sneak attack". 5e design was ethos was...

The simplest definition of compacted soil vs loose soil is "a shovel doesn't work". Do you need a metal implement to break the soil before you can move it with a shovel? Spell fails. Does a shovel actually dig into the ground in when you step on the shovel? Spell works. If Mold Earth...

I think cantrips would be impactful on battles, just not damaging ones. Low level casters do essentially the same damage using a crossbow as a cantrip. Thats not materially impactful. Now...what if they could interfere with enemy formations? Mold Earth can make a 5ft cubic hole with a 5ft...

Another winning strategy is shooting the enemy when they can't shoot back. Given the short range of the spells, an archer-based army would stay back and focus on killing all the pack animals. Much easier targets at range and can kill an army even more efficiently from an ammunition stand...