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TIL that if i can remember D&D rules and features better than another person they must be stupid or lazy or both. Can’t wait to tell the people I play with so they can appropriately laud my genius. But wait! What if they are too stupid to discern it and/or too lazy to do so? Might have to...

Every once in a while a poster comes in hot out of seemingly nowhere and I am like, wait! is this a new person coming in acting jerky? So I check, and nope they've been around for at least a few years but are suddenly very active and not in a good way.

While my ideal is one subclass with four possible choices of focus. 🤷🏽‍♂️ (My 5e hack has sorcerer and wizard as subclasses of a mage class)

I tried to make an Elementalist subclass for my 5E hack and it was so difficult to create 4 equivalent spell lists for each of the 4 classical elements, that I gave up. I found myself either having to make up a bunch of new spells, or energy swap spells/abilities and not care about if the...

In my current setting, there are two worlds, the surface and a hollow world with the core as its sun. Dungeons are the result of the ancient passages that made their winding way towards the center, and the various structures and civilizations that grew up along those ways. Later, war and...

The way I run my minions is that more than half their hit point max kills them, while anything less than half means the next hit kills them regardless of how many points it does (unless it does 0 somehow). And, minions save against individually-targeted spells and other effects as normal. When...

I have decided that instead of using the 25 minutes I have between dropping my kid at daycare and starting work for the day to doomscroll and set up my misery for the day over coffee, I am just gonna play a video game instead.

See this thread: D&D General - What would you do? (Example from my game)

There's a hole in the bucket, dear Eliza. Last night the packing tape I ordered arrived, but was not the size advertised and thus does not fit in my dispenser. Today, as I packaged it up to return, I realized that I needed packing tape to seal the return package, but I didn't have any, which is...

The title of Questing Beast's most recent video (posted an hour ago) compared to its actual content really seems like trolling, and it is sadly disappointing and feels kind of cowardly and even like sneering at those who care about who profits from GG stuff might go to and their going back on...

This discussion has been had a lot and we all know the answer. :ROFLMAO:

I do my best and don't beat myself up if isn't perfect all the time. When playing in person, I only draw out what they can see on the battlemat (or uncover portions if pre-drawn) and if things change so that what've I've drawn is now unseeable, I just remind my players what they cannot see and...

Wandering/Random Encounters are procedurally determined but applied narratively, though the odds and the frequency are determined by the setting. They PCs know the approximate frequency because I make them roll (I make them all roll, they don't know which of their die rolls is the one that...

“Vincent Baker, narrativist, RIP”

Oh and back when I used to run all my games "living world" style in Aquerra, there was one town (Nikar) where in one of the earliest campaigns I ran there, the PCs got into a fight with a rival adventuring party, leading to some serious property destruction and loss of life. Later, when during...

I have run games where what the OP describes is very much the case in many places, but at the same time the history and culture of a place can change the degree or the specifics of the dislike/distrust - and I try to keep that in mind. In my current setting, in urban areas where adventurers...

For the sake of the item “natural” means not urban/town and not a worked stone structure (like the ruins above and most of the dungeon itself). Natural caves (which the ice caves may be, they have only heard them called that, not confirmed) would count. One other issue to note, I guess, is...

The PCs know the Master is a human cult leader. Some of the humanoids the PCs have encountered are just allies (for complex and flexible reasons - they are the ones who fled when given the chance) and some are true believers. The Master is said to have a handful of other cultists with him at...

I was just curious and had a free minute to post the thread (nearly didn’t b/c weekend last can be so slow here). There are so many “white room” arguments here, I thought a discussion of options/strategies/schemes based on actual play might be a refreshing change.

I really need (at least) a weekend to spread every single of the 1000+ minis I own out on a table (or three) and reorganize them all into cases, but I don't want to do it alone and I have no one else to do it with me (though I guess I could wait 5 or 6 years and see if my daughter might be...