Recent content by bloodtide

Start with a basic "x" for the shape. Anchor Stores of Sears, JC Pennys, Nordstroms and Macys. All the classic mall stores: Spencer's Gifts, Things Remembered, Hot Topic, Victoria's Secret, Radio Shack, Suncoast, Camelot Music, Lids, Merry go Round, Chess King, Gadzooks, Pay Less Shoes...

I doubt it. The "sexy devil" and "sexy demon" are somewhat stuck. The cool WoW look, or worse the free form RP look. I have always used the 2E Tiefling tables from 2E Planescape, with added Fiends. Most of the time I like tieflings to "look a bit" like their fiend bllodline. You can tell a...

No Buddy DM, Agressive DM, No free information, lots of homebrew, and no questions. Go along way to make it easy to kill characters. Just take "a lot of games" with an encounter with a by-the-book Lich. With those underwhelming spells and abilities. Of course a Homebrewed lich with all sorts...

A lot of my High Level Play Rules are used at all levels 1-20. Character Death. The Big One as always. Character death is amazing at making high level play and the game work. No Buddy DM. Don't be "on the side of the players or characters". Be neutral. DM Aggression. When playing a...

I'm sure the WotC people don't know or care. It is just a silly game rule. But casting a spell a mile a away? Okay, so this does not seem to be all that powerful an effect. Useful, sure, but not game breaking. WotC is a watered down safe version Ed's Cricle magic is evil and destroyer the...

The game is presented as many, many monsters don't use magic? I don't see it. Sure, lazy cheep WotC can't be bothered to type any lore or even put a magic using monster variant for each monster. They can't be bothered with an "Orc Hexbalde". WotC makes the game....poorly.....much like...

Most of the OSR games are simple. Daggerheart is "D&D lite". Really 5E is simple enough. For kids of that age I just make simple characters. AC and HP. Just one generic Save. Abilities just do damage. It works out just fine. Check out your local train hobby store, they often have lots...

This is why I tell people to run high power, high fantasy, high magic games. The setting where the PCs have all powerful unbeatable magic.....and the whole world has sharp sticks....it not a great setting. Sure the players love it "nahnah, nobody, even a God can break into our Tiny Hut...

I see it effect other games often, though games that already have massive problems like a passive DM. Such groups do the "five minute day trick" often. They attack, then cast the spell and rest, then attack at full power again. Some groups use it as a tactical platform, where the wizard and...

5 games a week, 4-8 hours each, so roughly 30-35 hours a week. Plus maybe a pick up game or two for another couple hours.

I have done it often with large groups. I don't really like more then five players, so often enough a sith will join as an animal. I will keep them as 'just an animal" for stats, but then they likely won't do much combat. It is a great way for a new player to tag along and experience the...

I ignore such badly written 5E stuff. I have and will always do "detect invisibility' as you see the person/object with a bit of a shimmer and twinkle. And use the 3.5E part of "Such creatures or objects are visible to you as translucent shapes, allowing you easily to discern the difference...

*The Twilight of 1E--In the late 80's 1E had a odd place. The game was played by many groups, but in near secret. The age of where a couple of guys played a "secret game" and they let few join them. 1E books were few and far between. This was also the age of the crazy photo copies of the...

I do both, it is one of the reason I run around five games or so. I can have a mix of Hope and Despair. I have one Spelljammer game of each. One Classic Space Shawbucklers Western with Crystal Spheres full of hope...and Giant Space Hamsters. The other is pure Despair, with a crew of drow in...

We see Kekio run the arboretum. Mot is a barber. Guinin is a bar tender. And Ten Forward has waiters and waitresses. And we see a teacher or two. But I guess some people would just do nothing? The couple of times the Enterprise is evacuated we sure see a TON of civilians(or maybe they are...