Recent content by Distracted DM

The book heavily recommends doing it. That's probably why people think it's an integral part. Also the character creation process assumes you're doing it. It's presented as optional only so much as the book says "hey you're thinking about skipping the funnel? You should really do it." And I can...

Yeah there are a bunch of things that I don't love about 5e24, but I never had a problem with clerics/paladins/warlocks not picking their deity/oath/patron til level 3. I could rationalize it; maybe WotC could've included their own rationale with a line or two of text in the book? Can't say it's...

That is nuts to me. Scary nuts. Wow. Gemini seems to be topping out most other options at the moment.

What sold me on DCC originally was sitting down at a demo table and being handed a 3rd level wizard pregen. The magic was so interesting and cool and magical, not a science like DnD's is. Mighty Deeds of Arms is another great point, warriors can do cool things in a fight. My regret? Running a...

Grabbed :)

To build on this, I think modern DnD sourcing its saving throws directly from stats is one reason low stats are particularly awful. Another being how important they are in 5e, which is sort of a consequence of the flat math, and how they’re expected to be increased over levels via ASIs, rather...

I was checking the thread to see the Die Hard answers 😆 Rankin Bass Rudolph is my #1 Christmas nostalgia movie.

To be fair, that question comes up for just about every modification of DnD rules, and the answer is almost always “because we want to play DnD, not OSE/Shadowrun/Shadowdark/Deadlands/40k,” which translates to “we like/know the dnd system and don’t want to learn anything else.”

I don't have time to play, but I'm always happy to page through stuff like this if you're looking for feedback. Or just to let me see take a gander! Or potentially playtest certain modules aspects at my own tables ;)

Oyyyy... new city cursed scroll... that led me to the western reaches kickstarter, which has late pledges open... oyyyy...... my wallet...... I don't even have tables that play SD.. argh...... so tempting 😬🔥💸 edit: Crap I backed it. The physical Western Reaches stuff with the books and the...

They had late pledges open, so I hopped in while the getting's good :) Thanks for the tip!

Does SD have carousing tables? I haven't looked my books over in ages, but I'm always on the lookout for more random carousing tables in the style of the Knights of the North DCC carousing tables.

I had thought of 13A at first as well, I adapted their incremental advances into my 5e games so PCs can get things from the next level mid-session, but they aren't tied to story beats and/or pre-made decisions like these rules, so this is different from 13A in that aspect.

Artificers were added for Eberron. Settings typically have new spells, equipment, kits (subclasses), ancestries, feats, etc. to enhance things. I allow splatbooks and third party products as long as they seem reasonable, both mechanically and thematically. As far as "why don't you create...

Personally, when it comes to designing a setting, removing access to certain classes, ancestries, altering equipment, changing how magic works... None of that is done with "punishing players" as the motive- it's done in service of evoking certain themes and creating a world, using the tools at...