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I put a few thousand hours into the online game DayZ a few years back with my American friends. A zombie apocalypse survival horror. There is a whole subculture of people in that game who kill, cut up and eat newbies and even feed them to helpless prisoners. Worse… in the game cooked human fat...

Share it. They are good inspiration and sometimes useful to demonstrate what is possible. Either way I’m sure it will be fun to read.

I run for an experienced long term group in cohesive group. The four of them started at level 1 and managed fine. So four levels of growth. A level up every other session typically.

So interestingly in last nights session - the last in a 10 session delve into Undermountain using WFRP 4e - the part jokingly asked I would be TPKing them this week? The party has just finished the Drow enclave on level 3. They had several critical wounds - the wizard a broken hip, the front...

Yeah the factions based intrigue is very well detailed. The five factions and how they interact is basically the spine of the campaign. We’re about 60 hours in and just reached level 5 I believe. Party just started on the inner city. I highly recommend checking this out.

Let me be clear… it’s just my opinion… it’s not a fundamental law of the universe and by bad maybe I should clarify ‘not good’. I’m not saying that all encounters have to be CR = Party average level. There will obviously be a range of easy to difficult encounters. However if a party repeatedly...

Wizards are a lot of fun. I thought you were the DM Zardnaar? Surely you allow wizards to buy their new spells & scroll ingredients. New scroll scribing in the PHB is great and very useful. If a sorcerer uses their arcane points for spell slots it equates to the arcane recovery. Seems fair. I...

My point was that unbalanced encounters are bad. Not just because when encounters are too deadly they kill characters but because they can also be too easy which is dull. It wasn’t an either/or thing.

I’m not a fan of the continent wide map if that is how it comes. Not enough detail and I don’t really like the art style. However really I love the Myth Drannor map and really like that places like Shadowdale and Scardale are getting the Mike Schley treatment. I’m hoping we get a mid detail...

I agree. And mowing through foes like mowing wheat can feel boss. But the novelty wears off I think. Particularly if risk is linked to reward - which I think it should be. Bounded accuracy is pretty forgiving and still lets underwhelming foes get a hit in every so often but there is a balance...

I find it interesting that encounters not balanced have negative elements around sudden player death but the flip side also applies and is rarely discussed. Dull, performative combat, where a severely underpowered (but aggressive) foe is little more than a speed bump. Pointless combat that...

In central London about £140-£200 a night for a reasonable, clean inn. Not including breakfast.

I like him. He’s the only streamer commentator I enjoy regularly listening to for opinion. He’s also pretty balanced on D&D. Pretty neutral, which I appreciate. He also wrote one of my favourite dungeon adventures… https://adventurelookup.com/adventures/unhallowed-ground

I am so far from being a programmer it isn’t funny but even I can make basic adjustments to the Foundry rules. I can create homebrew stuff by duplicating then altering existing similar items. For more complicated systemic stuff with systems like Foundry there is a huge amount of modification...

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.