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I think HP are a great mechanic for what D&D is trying to achieve. Cinematic, heroic combat, where the hero pulls themselves back up and keeps on going. It makes it fast, simple and requires relatively little thought or emotional investment in game that is predominately driven by combat. Not...

This situation seems a bit messed up. How do you know the secret doors are there to look for? I guess my question would be, are the secret doors necessary to find in order to progress through the dungeon. If it is, then it’s bad adventure design. Go and find something else to do for your two...

I would say Birthright is my favorite setting. It’s one unique thing? Magical power is inextricably tied to the land and its people and you can use that power if you have inherited the bloodline of the gods because one of your ancestors (or someone who bequeathed their bloodline to you) was...

That is a good idea actually yes. On the other hand I remember many DCs being pretty punishing - particularly for some of the kingdom quests. Even things like perception tests not being high enough could lock you out of entire areas. I’m also pretty sure Monster saves are ridiculously high. I...

So I decided this weekend to give the Kingmaker CRPG another go. I had previously finished the game but that was before the dungeon add on was a thing. I’d love to have a group strong enough to tackle that. I reckon I had pretty good system mastery. I must have put hundreds of hours into that...

My preference is Cubicle 7’s Uncharted Journeys which was an expansion of the system they put in place for Adventures in Middle Earth. Nice simple - abstract not too complicated but has a meaningful impact on how the characters are at their arrival.

To the topic… I love Eberron… but… Something’s I really don’t like: The lack of good published adventures. The soft backs really are tripe. I don’t think there has been many if any published adventures which truly do the setting justice. Some of the Dungeon ones by Nick Logue are streets ahead...

I might be wrong but just for the record I’m not sure there is such thing as a [-] thread. As a [+] thread is one where folks can only say nice things. It means don’t argue with the basic premise of the thread. So by asking “what don’t you like?” A [+] thread still means people shouldn’t wax...

Yeah, my preference is to describe environments, occurances and circumstances alongside NPCs with ambitions, plans and tactics. The physical and the dynamic. I plan NPC contingencies regarding how their plans might be challenged probably up to the first or second degree. Other than that the...

They can but not usually while PCs are inside them. Maybe creatures move around. On the other hand there was a great little Dungeon Adventure featuring leveled Goblin Barbarians for 3e - quite novel for the time - that featured an earthquake half way through that did change the dungeon. I liked it.

Yeah the low prep approach doesn’t work for me. I want things detailed and described. I don’t like improv adventures. I think it is almost always more obvious than something that has been pre-planned. Maybe you can get away with it for dungeon crawls but for heists/mysteries/investigations I...

What controls are you using? Keyboard and trackpad? I honestly can’t imagine playing any of those games without a mouse to determine where you’re looking. That said. If you can make that control style work I would heavily recommend a few more… 7 Days to Die. Total War Warhammer Assassins...

Spells please. With bonus points if you fancy linking it into a kind of pages from the mages structure with a bit of a theme. Bonus-bonus points if that theme is heist related, pirate/nautical related, desert related or jungle related. Only one vote that said magic items would also be great...

??? I like to call it the Elven Longsword.

A good point well made. I definitely need to tone down my rhetoric.

Interesting Sage advice as well thanks for sharing. If readying a magic item spell doesn’t even expend charges or require concentration that further undermines the balance argument and all the more reason to take a less permissive around the ambiguity.

So it doesn’t require an action to use it working with merely a thought? Or do you think that it defaults to the Magic Action as per the Magic item introduction?

That in your opinion it isn’t unbalanced, is not a justification to say it’s a good face value reading of the rule. You might think it’s balanced but the Devs clearly didn’t want two spells to be cast with Action Surge whether by spellcasting or magic item. Which is why they specifically...

Ready Action: Any spell you can cast I can cast better. I can cast anything better than you. Magic Action: No you cant Ready Action: Yes I can Magic Action: No you can’t Ready Action: Yes I can Magic Action: No you can’t Ready Action: Yes I can, Yes I can, Yes I can!