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Thanks. It is just me being stuck in the mechanics of an older system.

D&D 2024 - The Last Hyborean homebrew campaign. Gas Spore scares heroes silly.

As a GM/DM I like telling stories with my friends. I like having a set campaign (big fan of adventure paths) and see how the players tell that tale with their heroes and how they make that story their own. Also monsters. I love monsters. As a player, I'm there to tell the story that the GM/DM...

Okay... so, correct me if I am wrong here. I'm used to how the old D20 system handling perception. The perception skill was used for finding traps, secret doors, that journal hidden in the alchemists lab, whether you were being followed and spotting ambushes on the road ahead. D&D 5th adds the...

In one of the two 2024 campaigns I am running, I have a player with a (at present) 8th level Druid. Other than once a twice when it was used to become a wolf or bird, the Druid becomes a spider. That form is used for scouting and spying. It is never used for anything else because it just doesn't...

D&D 2024 - The Last Hyborean (Homebrew campaign). Halls of the World Bringer!

Agreed. It was just a trial as I noticed it now gave an option to make pictures. Normally I use ChatGPT but I've got to wait till payday to renew my subscription. The skeleton on the wall was rather unexpected. I had assumed it would do the traditional held by the wrists.

Gemini on my phone now has an image generation option. I tried the following description... A dungeons & dragons style picture. A knight in plate armour with sword and shield, wearing a blue cloak. He fights a pair of skeketon warriors, armed with rusted blades, and wearing corroded chainmail...

Classic Dragonlance - post War of the Lance and before the awful Chaos War nonsense. Krynn felt more romanticized fantasy over traditional dungeon crawling. That appealed so much to younger me for some reason. After they made sweeping changes the setting lost everything to me though.

D&D 2024 - Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign. Dinosaur Rampage Interrupts Murder Mystery.

I fully agree. In all the games I have played nothing works as well as the D&D hit point system. Easy to keep track off and doesn't hurt the brain.

For a very long time, I was always of the view point that orcs were a monster race. You couldn't play one because the moment any civilized person saw you approaching their town or village, you'd be the enemy. That changed coming back to D&D with the new edition. I allow half elves under the elf...

D&D 2024 Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign. Heist mission. Rescue the kid!

I don't like magic as technology and Eberron turns that dial up to 11. That is what I don't like. My own homebrew world has artifice and airships, and there are elements of the delayed Eberron book that will work for me. Eberron as a setting doesn't do it.

For me, it's a bit of an odd one. I love the setting but it's the mechanics over time. I played a lot of Dark Sun under 2nd edition (under two different DM's) and ran a couple campaigns myself. When we came to try it under 3.X and Pathfinder, the nature of the system meant that it didn't feel...

It's an interesting read. I think my view of D&D was coloured by what brought me into D&D, namely Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, the old animated Lord of the Rings and fantasy movies like Clash of the Titans. Fantasy was medieval or classic fantasy and science fiction was (athough something I...

In my homebrew setting, dragon born usually have cosmetic tails but no wings.

D&D 2024 - The Last Hyborean (Homebrew campaign). Benny Hill skeleton chase fight.