Recent content by Distracted DM

I'm glad that some folk can enjoy playing this way- I've never been comfortable with it. It was never worth the stress, but I have some degree of social anxiety n' all that fun stuff. That's definitely a big help, but resolving interparty conflict in-character has never sat well with me. Again...

OP is, I think, just pointing out that there's a great visual similarity between the modern meme and this old cover. Sharing something they thought was funny, with a group of like-minded individuals. I guess it'd more appropriate to something short-lived, like a discord channel, rather than a...

I think there may be times when there's a differences between wanting to play a character who's a coward, likely because they want some arc where said character overcomes that cowardice, and the player being risk-averse, basically not wanting to be in melee because that's a higher likelihood of...

Yup. "Because it's what my character would do" generally refers to an excuse for destructive or difficult behavior. And yes, the best answer to "I don't go on the quest" really is "OK so make a character that would." Either that, or come up with some reasons that this character would. The...

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You mention balancing being a factor- are the monsters seeing alterations? What kind? Just flat out making them put out more damage, or?

Warhammer Fantasy 1e hacked into a Warhammer 40k dark heresy game before dark heresy was a thing 😆

Actually it's a timely necro, since the latest GPG has more PrCs!

For those that're saying "hey, just make them all feats," either you're thinking of, or have not heard of, the Adventurer class. Someone said that they liked the old split 50/50 method from earlier editions, for that you can try Horwath's homebrew for it which basically gives the PC a few extra...

Overall I agree with your points, but this one ^^^ I don't- the power of player characters in a system is (IMO) determined by how the PCs stack up vs. the monsters. For example, how scary an ogre will be to a low level party, or how a mid-level party will fare against a couple of giants. Of...

I'm not up on 5.5e optimization, but I'd guess that multiclassing would provide more benefits than using a feat for masteries- depends on class ofc but in 5e I had heavy optimizer players taking dips for stuff like armor proficiency (1st level artificer, the rest wizard, so they'd get armor and...

Wow, I loved Reaper Man but I totally forgot about the