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You can make any adventure a sandbox by ripping out the main story. For Rime, though, I think it would suffice to eliminate the milestone leveling and just let the players do whatever they wanted.

I need a good starting map for a place called "The Moonless Vale." It is a hidden valley that reappears every 80 years or so Brigadoon style, full of strange vaults and tombs. It actually appears on dozens of worlds of various fantastical and technological levels, and so includes all sorts of...

Since they transform into a hybrid form, does one tusk and one weapon attack make sense? Otherwise, I like.

Another good swine-ish name is "wallowers." I kind of liek that one more for a suprise predator, though.

There's only really one grimdark framework. Besides The Age of Umbra, which ones struck you as "grimdark"?

I like to look at words in other languages to get inspirations for names, and "swine" in dutch is "varken" which sounds suitably monstrous.

Switching from. 3-18 to mods is pretty irrelevant in modern iterations anyway. My proposal (or question) is to remove them entirely.

The way I would do it is add traits or feats that represent mechanical impacts on play (but not just boring bonuses). Strong as an ox: you can carry twice as much weight as the average person (i would make that a standard based on size and number of limbs btw). Alertness: your chances of...

I think Rime is an illusory sandbox. If you follow the advice in the book, the PCs can do like 3 things before they have to move on. It is the most "tabletop CRPG" of all of WotC's adventures I think.

I just decided to watch Thunderbolts on a whim and that movie was MUCH better than I expected.

The 6 attributes are the most sacred of the D&D legacy elements. But what if we just eliminated them entirely? What if we just used skills, proficiencies, feats, etc to define what a character is good at mechanically? Could D&D be D&D without ability scores? Would you play D&D without ability...

Character motivations are the responsibility of the players.

And I would say that this statement is an attempt to justify not bothering to look at the subject objectively. So here we are.

I am not sure these things are connected. I have seen and read about west marches/hex crawl campaigns where the GM created the world intentionally and in great detail and then let the players loose on it. The players do not create anything -- only their characters' actions shape the world. I am...

RHoD is a great adventure. It is one of very few 3.x books I kept after a massive purge due to a move. I wonder if there are any good conversions for it, to 5E or otherwise.

It isn't stealing -- the training data WAS STOLEN. But how AI generates images (or text) doesn't really work like that. it isn't a collage. It is an algorithm that "creates" via probabilities based on training data and source prompting. Does that make it "better"? Probably not. But I think it...

As I get close to end what was a more trying "open world" and "player driven" than I expected D&D campaign, I think I want the next one to be more story driven and linear. So what linear, story driven TTRPG campaigns have you played or run that you really like? Any system, but extra points if...

I ended up doing 12 HP with the fortitude ability based on a Con save. It worked pretty well, but no massive fight with tons of mooks ever materialized because the party went the super stealth route and only had to fight a few guards before escaping with the target hogtied and unconscious.

Man that looks great.

I wonder if anyone has kept careful track.