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Oh. OH. I can see where you're coming from, particularly with regard to the storyline not being necessarily dependent on the players. I've wrapped most of my player's backstories into involvement with the jungle, the shipping company, the rival nation, and the lich's treasure, but if the players...

Yeah, I've obviously left out substantial sections of the storyline for relative brevity, so it might come off as more railroady than it actually is. There's nothing stopping them from engaging with the various factions in any way that they see fit. They'll be entirely able to have a pirate...

Hi folks, just joined this page after listening to a bunch of Mike Shae's podcast episodes, so if you're reading this Mike, thanks. Am I a grognard now? I thought I'd post here because the odds of my players finding this are vanishingly small and no longer use FB or Reddit, but if you're called...

I just wrote it in that everyone bumped into a hag who read their fortunes in exchange for "a piece of silver and some of their time". The PC literally disappears and doesn't experience time passing as the curse takes their lifespan and adds it to the hags. The players got direction for their...

Otyugh, rats, sewers, and poop.

Thanks very much, I’ll try and get used to using such a… “classic” medium again; I haven’t used a forum since I was a moody teenager on DeviantArt. You’re not wrong though, I suspect what I’m looking for is realism in a game that isn’t about that any more, because dying in the trenches from...

There are two scenarios where spoken languages matter one jot to me: 1) Where a specific PC gets to have some backstory cultural touchstone. 2) Where I want the wizard to burn a spell slot casting Comprehend Languages. Written language is a bit different because you can use them as clues for...

First time posting, only ever played 5e and starting on 5.5 now. Diseases. Diseases weren’t much in 5e, but I just ran an encounter with some 5e diseased rats (no 2024 MM for us down in NZ yet) and had to retcon for the player that got diseased because magical diseases are all that’s in 5.5...