Recent content by Distracted DM

Pretty sure @SlyFlourish has posted some strong opinions on the topic, see: the Walled Garden. I believe that was more relevant for 3pp but this touches on that. Is it bad for customers? Short-term no, long-term yes. It's the path to enshittificiation. I'd feel bad about using that word so...

I prefer in-person games, but all of my friends that I ran games for for years and years pre-COVID now only want to play online because it's more convenient. So I get why people maybe think one way or the other... I run online because I made it my means to make a living, and because I like the...

Unfortunately, reducing efficacy on the player side is making it easier on the GM but the players feel it more keenly. Whereas if you just ramped up every enemy, the players might feel like the world is a lot more lethal, if all DCs were upped things would feel more difficult, but that would...

I usually hyper focus on an indie game, one at a time. My friend finally caught me between game fixations, at just the right time, to get me back into WoW. For years n years I couldn't imagine playing a tab to target MMO again, even games that I WANTED to like such as ESO I couldn't enjoy. But...

Are they going to be doing this? Cuz yeah that sounds interesting ... and difficult without a lot of rules revisions.

Everything going so heavily SAD was certainly a design choice.

IIRC Descent into Avernus has you literally burning souls for fuel in your mad max war-car.

Whether you want guns in your setting or not is up to individual preference, but I imagine most will agree that adding something like powerful guns to a game which is easily accessed and mechanically superior to other options is ... bad design. When I run something spelljammer, there are guns...

I'm glad to see players think through their problems and treat "combat as war," coming up with ingenious ways through or around encounters. I don't think there's anything particularly ingenious, creative, or clever about using a rifle, longbow, or crossbow to kill a foe from 1000+ft.

Whenever I see peoples' only experience with DCC is having played through a funnel, I know they didn't get a good view of the actual game. Funnel characters are level 0's- they can't do much! My intro to DCC was a 2hr one-shot with level 3 premade characters at the GAMA trade show, by Good...

One big reason Solamnic Knights weren't paladins when we met them in the original Dragonlance books is because there were no holy powers in Krynn at that time. The gods had peaced out. However they were founded because of a vision sent by the gods of good, they served said gods of good, they...

I personally hate DMing "evil" campaigns- being the narrative processor for the PCs actively sowing terror, abusing folk, torture, cannibalism, trying to actively make things worse just to "be the bad guys"... it burned me out when one campaign went in that direction. The worst I can handle is...

I like that they included some narrative requirements for the DK and Lich paths. Though I can easily see players just passing over them and taking the feat as part of the level-up process without any actual action taken in-game to do so (other than gaining levels). "Oh yeah I'm level 16 and now...

Gotta compare these feat chains to the A5E ones. I know there's a lich feat chain, I haven't seen a death knight one though. In one of yours @Timespike ?

Can you elaborate on that? Very curious- I can maybe guess what you mean, but don't want to put words in your mouth 😅