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I totally accept that some folks might like to play this out long form and describe the familiar moving from room to room and interacting with them and the inhabitants in turn. For me this is a deeply unsatisfying way of running a scenario for a couple of reasons. Firstly whether or not you’ve...

I remember watching Chris Perkins run Curse of Strahd on YouTube with Dice Camera Action. Such a privilege to get to watch a writer DM their own work. Similarly for the Dungeon Dudes and Dungeons of Drakkenheim. It’s particularly interesting to see where they leave the text behind and start...

This sounds very interesting and simpler. What kind of things can be picked from the table? This was essentially what I was aiming at. The successes determine how far you get before being forced to turn back or discovered. It did also run through my mind that you could use this in a slightly...

I think it depends on the location as to how out place any given familiar is. Though I totally agree some creatures are gonna get seen. I think we have to take into account the fact that some players won’t care though. Their familiar costs them 10gp and they can replace it very quickly. They’ll...

I agree with all of this, but I also think these bases are covered by what I proposed. There is a reasonable chance that the familiar is discovered and exposed. The timescales are pretty much what you describe - hours not minutes.

Really enjoying being a player in this campaign. It’s doesn’t feel like a railroad. It opens with the premise that you will hunt for the rod of seven parts and each chapter leaves it up to the player entirely how they secure each part. I don’t see what choice as a player is being constrained.

Reputation. Micah is for Level Up what I am from WFRP here. There’s no zealot like a convert 😅

I’ve made my opinions on the state of things pretty clear. We’re living in a great time. The latest update for 5e is the best it’s ever been and ticks a lot of boxes I wanted to see resolved from 2014. That’s surrounded by more 3pp products than ever before, some of the highest quality I’ve...

To go with the minis the artwork is pretty amazing too. I print a lot of battle maps out on a couple of pages of A3 because I don’t really like drawing out on dry erase myself. The quality and breadth of maps now that come through things like Patreon is absolutely huge. These folks are the best...

I agree it mustn’t be tedious. I think Stage one would be picked by DM based on the location they have designed. Quick decision. Stage 2 is the die rolling and decision step. Yes the player needs to decide who to send in to infiltrate and whether to be reckless or cautious but those are the...

Precisely. In a heist adventure the fact finding is really important. I’m keys from the golden vault a lot of this I got is just handed to the PCs which I think is a bit of a missed opportunity.

I’m about to run a heist campaign in D&D rules and one scenario really bugs me. It’s when one player transforms themselves into a small spider or uses a familiar and then infiltrates the lair, unilaterally while the rest of the party have to spectate. The DM has two choices, either stop clever...

I just checked the autograph prices for Comic Con in UK 2024. Most of them were less than £40 which is $50 in your money. Like 85% were that much. A couple were higher. So are you sure Mark Hamils signature isn’t more because he’s an old man and the lead actor in the original of one of the most...

Pathfinder was published as pdf from day one. The products were expressly designed to be sold as PDFs and alongside the subscription model that was one of their main routes to market. They were also a scrappy insurgency so had a reason to want their products out there cheaply and easily. It’s...

An interesting question came up on a discord thread for WFRP. A DM wanted to look at publishing the adventure he ran for his group. It’s a 100% self written homebrew campaign that he was running personally. His own notes are too patchy to do anything with and a lot of the creativity came in on...

Ruined Geek Culture? By what metric? It’s more popular than ever It’s more accessible than ever It’s more diverse than ever It’s more available at little or no cost than ever. It really isn’t expensive. The existence of limited edition covers, don’t negate the existence of regular books, or...

On Drive Thru RPG We have several hundred out of print products available in pdf for a cut price rate of a few dollars each Something we could only have dreamed of 15 years ago. The trend of only promoting the edition currently in print is well and truly broken. I picked up Doom of Daggerdale...