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How much are you supposed to level up during your random hexcrawl? Its possible (2% chance) that your first encounter in the jungle is a CR 8 tyrannosaurus. You will very likely be level 1. So your TOA game could be "dicked over by NPC, town seems cool, TPK". It recommends that you are 1s...

that module is frustratingly bad. Its got so much cool stuff potential, and constantly goes out of its way to yank it from the players hands or keep it hidden from them. Its a hexcrawl, but 99% of the hexes are empty, and there is no incentive to get to any of the ones that have interesting stuff. A...

Roll20 says no. https://blog.roll20.net/posts/the-orr-group-industry-report-q1-2021/ PF2 (1.51% of campaigns) is far less popular than PF1(3.49%), and very close in popularity to 3.5 (.98%). Its basically the 4e to PF1's 3.5. 5e on the other hand has 52.94% of the roll20 market and is seeing growth....

Spot on about MK. I heard about the movie, got amped, then heard about some new guy named Cole who was going to blah blah blah, and was completely disinterested. Trailers came out, hardly featured him, and looked sweet. I'm re-hooked because its MK. Sit down to watch and it was alright at best. Not ...

Did not mean to come across as defending the content. Was mostly making sure it was clear that the hyperlink srd folks didn't randomly write their own sanity rules and then try to slip them into people's 3.5 games by pretending it was WoTC content. Now, they still have it up, and no one is forcing t...

Heaven's Thunder Hammer wrote:The SRD was written when, in 2000? It's a product of its time.

Thats the ogl sanity rules from unearthed arcana. Written in 2004.

I'm working on some backstory to give people about Sigil, because the concept is really cool. The deeper I go into the lore around it, and the lady of pain, the worse it gets. You'd be better served tossing her, and most of the factions, than reworking them just to distance yourself from any associa...

I applaud your imagination for turning that into an entire specific race of creatures that are the same as those in Tolkien and D&D. And I your unwillingness to do the most minimal amount of effort to learn about a topic you asked for information on. Scroll down on the link provided or my post ...

A simple etymology search would refute your claim about the word orc. If you can find a couple of pre-Tolkien sources that talk about a race of orcs, I'd love to see them. Bonus points if they hate elves. Beowulf. Mythological monsters with names similar to "orc" can be found in the Old E...

There's no +10 cap on Dispel Magic in Pathfinder. I've been playing the game pretty much since it came out and I'm still finding spells that don't quite work like they did in D&D 3.5. But... why? Pathfinder isn't a 3.x fix, and wasn't even really supposed to be one. They changed enough things t...

In the prequels, the Dooku was a disaffected jedi. Same with most of the separatists in the clone wars. Dooku bailed and got corrupted to the dark side immediately, but he was open to it because he had the same realizations as Ahsoka (who notably also left the order and went wandering in search of a...

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Module 5 goes to earth WWI, and you go kill Rasputin.

You can tell wild magic is universally terrible, because without fail, there are always rules to remove the randomness and let players pick their outcome or negate bad ones. I think you could genuinely replace wild mages with a sorcerer style class with refluffed spells. He doesn't cast fireball, he...

Y'all ever played a game where the opposition party's use of dailies and encounters was taken into account when they fight the PC's? If I'm designing an NPC spellcasting villain, I'll make a note of their spellcasting tactics. For example, if they have mage armor that lasts 6 hours, I might say the...

I put this together because I had too much time on my hands. I hope people find it helpful. A PDF you can put other places or read offline, so I generally find it more useful than a forum post. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WdrXnpERZzCzjnC9UIhPYrMeRHUIeoSI/view?usp=sharing It includes everything ...

Ivory Tower Design is still available. https://web.archive.org/web/20080221174425/http://www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?mc_los_142 Magic also has a concept of "Timmy cards." These are cards that look cool, but aren't actually that great in the game. The purpose of such cards is to rewa...

If I'm reading about a new game, and see miscasts included, its generally one of the first things I think about house ruling out.

Yes. I use the organization entry when I find a cool monster I want to try to include in an upcoming game, and want to know what you might find them with. For example the Orge Mage Organization: Solitary, pair, or troupe (1-2 plus 2-4 ogres) I know it is a solo monster but keeps a couple of ogres ar...

I think it provides for a relatively interesting resource management scenario. If everyone recharges at the same time with the same mechanic, there's an obvious best time. If everyone is different, it drives towards discussions around "should we keep going" and can make optimal tactics har...

Randomly selected level 20 dungeon. The Temple of Annihilism. Way back when, ancient aliens lived in deep space and embraced entropy. Two ancient void dragons built a temple to embrace this philosophy, and it houses a sphere of annihilation. If you try to join the club, you get sucked into walls for...

@Krusk, the mini-dungeon tome caught my eye, I have been running some Roll20 games recently and the idea of having a bunch of quick dungeons on hand seems like it would make life much easier. However, the preview pages didn't look particularly inspired to me. How would you rate the quality of the a...

The pathfinder version of Mini-Dungeon Tome is probably the most referenced book at the table when I'm DMing. Its fantastic for when I need to throw a quick dungeon into a campaign, or need a couple of plot hooks. The actual content isn't mind blowing, but its information dense and easy to modify qu...

I want this to cover all the mundane stuff characters can do, like "use thumbs" or "know things" and I have yet to find a satisfying skill list for that. So you want to ignore any non combat checks, in favor of magical tea party, and don't want to have a list of what that might ...

If you don't want randomness factoring in, what if you take the take 1/10/20 idea but make it a resource people invest in. Have a list of your 15 skills, and tell people that first level characters get 10 dots to spend. Every time they level up, they get 5 more dots. So a character sheet will say Cr...

So how is Attack Bonus, AC, Saves, HP suppose to scale in D&D5e? As mentioned before D&D3e's anchoring point was the monster manual, 4e's was listed in charts. Also how useful is INT, WIS, CHA if it's not your primary caster stat or if you're not a caster, does one of them stand out as more...