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If only to go against expectations, I realized that the roll I call for most often that ISN'T the d20... is the d12 (for random encounters), followed by the d100 (for everything else). So I voted d100. I figured d12 would be up there , partially cuz of the thread title, and partially because yes...

Yeah, effects varied by spell school, and/or even by spell level cast. I think now we're going into different theme interpretations of what wild magic is. They quite intentionally set the original wild magic table so that a wild mage could try to cast acid arrow, and open a gate with a demon...

Yes please! Or a link, or whatever :)

Yeah, I basically just wanted to link the Matt Colville video about the topic, which pretty much advises this ^^^ I will say that some players do jive with lore... But theyre the exception.

I love improvising and random tables so wild magic has always been my love, but I very much understand why it should be something that the group is OK with. 13th Age had a very interesting wild mage.. you rolled every round and that round you'd only be able to cast either utility...

This is largely how DCC magic works. Every spell has multiple degrees of success and what it does. IIRC magic missile goes from magic missiles to a dragonball Kamehameha wave. Or you could always roll really badly and get random bad effects.

You know, it just occurred to me that ads are personalized. You’re probably only going to see GM book ads if you are already interested in GMing… because the vast majority of the DnD ads, particularly WotC’s, are aimed at getting players. I see the “forge your character, tell your characters...

Lots of things here that'd be, or have been, their own topics 😂 You do make me think of something Mike Mearls said, that treating monsters the same as PCs with regards to their stay lock calculations was a mistake.. something about proficiency bonus-CR shouldn't have been used with their maths.

I'm quite curious about what the ad was that set @Reynard off in the first place 😆 But I think that this thread has been pleasantly civil! I imagine it's partially because most folk agree that GMing might not be hard to get into, but it's worth acknowledging those choose to do so. Or something...

Well, crap.

Yup! I am quite curious as to what could've caused them to stop distribution. Licensing would be a guess, but licensing what, and from whom? Edit: Via the PDF, I don't see much on the licensing page. It's a shame, because it's a really, really great product!

Not to mention Petersen Games' website still sells cthulhu mythos stuff. Just not THIS cthulhu mythos stuff.

I have to think that whoever said "the next Forgotten Realms" was talking about it from a "kitchen sink all-encompassing setting," not a comparing the actual content. 'Cuz in my mind Golarion is closer to Mystara or Greyhawk, probably moreso the former, than FR.

I agree that verticality's important, as are a big room here and there, but I also think that one thing that makes a dungeon a dungeon is tight-squeeze spaces. I had to coach one of my parties recently to use choke points to their advantage- I briefly agonized over the decision of whether or not...

The HP convo makes me think of this thing I saw recently: I think the title explains itself well enough. Not sure how I feel about it, though. I think there's a behavioral/mental reason behind the fact that there have always been rules and house-rules to avoid death at 0. Like, we can't...

I've done a lot of point-crawl "abstract" dungeons, but more often I do pre-planned dungeons and pretty much everything here ^^^ covers what I consider important. Frankly I didn't consider a couple points, like one-ways.

Yup! I wasn't really referring to PCs being instakilled, I think the discussion comes from people trying to simulate every event in the world with the game's rules. "How can the warrior-king (an NPC) have been killed by a single dagger stab while asleep?! His traitorous wife with a dagger does...

Yup! They're enough to simulate what's needed in a combat situation, and many narrative situations. It's just that once you go to narrative stuff like "hero murdered in his sleep with a dagger to the heart," then you need to just say "anyone could be killed if they're helpless in a non-combat...

Does anyone know what happened to this product line? It's not on the Petersen Games site anymore, and the book itself is out of print. I don't know of a legit way to get ahold of the PDFs either.