Recent content by Distracted DM

I didn't want to derail the thread by continuing the ethics conversation, I felt like it was my bad because I brought it up in the first place, so I feel a little better that you're not put off by the convo happening here. To answer the other poster, "what societal impact?" I was talking both...

Did you ever find something that had it all? Especially the first four. I can't say how many times I've delved into the premade adventure abyss trying to put together a somewhat tight fallen-dwarf hold adventure with hack n slash, puzzles, environs, and RP. I end up opening a couple random...

I'm listening to it now, I was gonna ask what did you do for core rules, but you just let everyone use the core ruleset that their characters were from which is so weird and funny, I'm glad, as you say in the vid, that everyone was still having a good time. Did you ever get any people asking...

There's your answer 😆 The floor being much higher is a big deal for everyone that doesn't spend time on optimization forums.

Wow, this ... I can't deny how impressive this is, I have friends that mess around with Gemini a lot and post their output. It's nuts, both the stills and the video. Honestly it makes be a bit nauseous, considering the industry and societal impact of this stuff (especially video, but images...

As a DnDB DM, how do you restrict what content PCs in a campaign of yours can use? In the past you could only choose to not share your personal content with them, but if they had Acq Inc or Rick & Morty or whatever, they could still use it with said character in the campaign; but I was informed...

I've had 5e14, ToV, and A5E characters all running next to one-another, and 5e24 and A5E characters together. The only thing I'd suggest is that you need to choose a "core system:" which system everyone is defaulting to for equipment, spells, feats, etc- especially spells, because otherwise...

Can you elaborate on the extra dice for levels 3 6 9?

The 5e14 antiquarian gets counterspell 1/SR, I don't know about the newer stuff. The 5e14 version had ?12? subclasses. The antiquarian Investigator doesn't get the spellcasting feature, they get ritual spells and a bunch of not-ritual spells as rituals, and a limited number of times/LR they can...

https://magehandpress.com/2025/04/investigator-base-class-5e2024/ This is very close to what's described, I believe.

True- and to confuse things, DnDB has been WotC's DnD mouthpiece some time after it was acquired. Or maybe it's not supposed to be confusing, and all DnD news comes from DnDB :) So maybe the DnDB AMA is supposed to be for DnD too? edit: Reading over the announcement it seems like it's just an...

If only to go against expectations, I realized that the roll I call for most often that ISN'T the d20... is the d12 (for random encounters), followed by the d100 (for everything else). So I voted d100. I figured d12 would be up there , partially cuz of the thread title, and partially because yes...

Yeah, effects varied by spell school, and/or even by spell level cast. I think now we're going into different theme interpretations of what wild magic is. They quite intentionally set the original wild magic table so that a wild mage could try to cast acid arrow, and open a gate with a demon...

Yes please! Or a link, or whatever :)

Yeah, I basically just wanted to link the Matt Colville video about the topic, which pretty much advises this ^^^ I will say that some players do jive with lore... But theyre the exception.