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Such lights still put you at a disadvantage trying to sneak up on others, which to me is the core of this thread. Common darkvision among monster disables scouting using Stealth.

In 5E they merged Darkvision and Low-Light Vision. Initially I hated this, but now I think it was actually a good idea. Low-Light Vision was basically unlimited in range outdoors (if you looked up the definition). In our Skull & Shackles game, the elves and gnomes ruled the night where the...

When I type "Enworld" in my browser, this is the page it takes me too, with the depressing mod message. I may have to make a bookmark. :eek:

Its mandatory if it exists. If you have to factor in opponents with darkvision, and you don't have darkvision, that makes you useless as a scout. But if nobody has darkvision, the floor is level again and everybody can scout.

If the setting is not about lethal damage, the entire situation changes.

pulpy, Cthulhu, Crimson Skies, Feng-Shui... Actually I am happy if all these terms did not annoy. Perhaps Buzzword is the wrong term here, more like group-speak.

Darkvision is mandatory for certain roles, primarily for scouting but also for stealth in general. As this is a part of the game both I and my players enjoy. I am making darkvision much less common in my next campaign; the goblins will now be using torches and campfires just like everybody else.

As a GM, you control every aspect of the PCs perception. To fool a PC, you play around with the information you hand out rather than using direct force. Don't tell them "Cardinal Richelieu convinces you to blow up the castle of this ancient family", tell them that the family are robber barons...

I voted for times with fuzzy history like the mythical era and dark ages. You don't want to play mighty supers in wars, its just too disruptive. Or you have to make the heroes subject to a chain of command, this could work, but you have to tell the players this is your premise.

Very good advice, best so far.

I did play a pulpy Cthulhu/Crimson Skies (the boardgame) crossover, we used a Feng-Shui RPG-based homebrew for rules. Lots of buzzwords in this post. :o

I am about to start the free Phalan part of Pools or radiance converted for Blades in the Dark. I've been wanting to do this since I first played pools of Radiance, and it seems a good fit for a fantasy hack of Blades in the Dark. This was also published as Ruins of Adventure...

This sums the entire Basic Role-Playing line of games up quite well, and many other lighter and/or more realistic systems as well. They work well in one-shots, but are just too random to build a campaign on. :(

I recently subscribed to Chat GPT - it feels like going from talking to a very erudite 10-year-old to now speaking to a very erudite 16-year old. The attention span grew immensely!

Gawd how we hated the obligatory "get screwed over by Mr. Johnson". It got to the point we were considering just shooting the Mr. Johnsons at the very start and looting their bodies for paydata on the score they were setting us up for. That's when we gave up Shadowrun.

Götisism was the theory of the day, trying to give the (back then) major power Sweden an illustrious history. All sorts of crazy theories from that time. Most unprovable. :D

If this is it, then it bears close similarity to actual history and historians. :) Maybe this is the best way to see it; the theory of the day at Greyhawk University is that the twin cataclysms happened in the reverse order. That scholars now think so doesn't make it true. :)

I've only read the start and end of this thread, so excuse me if this is repetitive. I am playing Blades in the Dark right now, which shares some of the OP's view on die rolling; it is always the players who roll, and initiate actions or reactions. A problem I have with this is how to telegraph...

Amen, brother! One of my players almost left due to the character sheets.

Page 32 outlines resistance and notes how different GMs and campaigns can play this with various degrees of effect, depending on how much heroism you want. I generally drop a consequence two steps IMC as my game is relatively light in mood. Page 54 Special Armor Some special abilities refer to...