Recent content by BookTenTiger

Finally, a good place to type my very strong thoughts about orcs, halflings, and Moderation policies! (Kidding, kidding!)

This is a really funny concept. Especially for us D&D folk, the lone wolf character is always such a pervasive issue at the table. It cracked me up in the trailer when people would point out just how similar these two lone "wolfs" were. That said, Brad Pitt and George Clooney are getting old...

Retreater, I've read and participated in similar threads by you, and I wanted to share my own experiences over the last few years. Before the Pandemic, I was playing in a long 5e game that started off great, but soon got very very railroady. All my good friends were very dedicated to this game...

I miss the days when I was nostalgic about the past... Things were so much better then...

Edition Wars!

I've never played in a game in which planning a heist is actually fun. Conceptually it seems like it could be fun, but I find the gap between player knowledge and character knowledge makes planning difficult and rarely useful. Flashback mechanics, on the other hand, have always almost been...

DM: The guard asks you to identify all the stoplights in the photograph. Player: I make a Perception check... 13... DM: You missed one! The guard asks you to identify all the bicycles in the photograph.

Here's the problem as I see it. (Please remember that I fiddled around with a similar idea for a number of years.) In a standard 5e combat, each player gets a turn, and the DM gets one or more turns. This means everyone is sharing the spotlight somewhat evenly throughout the combat. Let's say...

From my experience attempting this kind of system, it's very challenging to keep track of multiple opponents! It also means you are frequently interrupting players' turns, which isn't always a fun experience.

My friend and I once tried to create a Continuous Initiative System for 3e. We used a cribbage set and created pegs for each combatant. Each action or set of movement had a cost- when you took your action (or moved), you then moved your peg down the cribbage set a number of holes equal to the...

I'm going to suggest something: Let them get the math wrong. My prediction would be that if you told the players that keeping track of (and printing out!) all their character sheets was too much, and had them do it, they might get some of the math wrong. But I also predict it wouldn't actually...

I'm not surprised! D&D has always been a great outlet for me creatively and socially. It helped me through the pandemic and during spates of depression.

Good follow-up question: How old were you when you first joined EN World / other variations thereof? I was 14 when I first joined Eric Noah's site. I am now 37.

I am 37. I don't exist on the poll. 😭 Edit: I found it!

This reminds me of the time my older brother told me the whole story of the Odyssey using gummy bears. Every time someone died we are their bear. When the ship got caught between the big monster and the whirlpool... that's about when we started to get stomach aches.