Recent content by Distracted DM

Well, crap.

Yup! I am quite curious as to what could've caused them to stop distribution. Licensing would be a guess, but licensing what, and from whom? Edit: Via the PDF, I don't see much on the licensing page. It's a shame, because it's a really, really great product!

Not to mention Petersen Games' website still sells cthulhu mythos stuff. Just not THIS cthulhu mythos stuff.

I have to think that whoever said "the next Forgotten Realms" was talking about it from a "kitchen sink all-encompassing setting," not a comparing the actual content. 'Cuz in my mind Golarion is closer to Mystara or Greyhawk, probably moreso the former, than FR.

I agree that verticality's important, as are a big room here and there, but I also think that one thing that makes a dungeon a dungeon is tight-squeeze spaces. I had to coach one of my parties recently to use choke points to their advantage- I briefly agonized over the decision of whether or not...

The HP convo makes me think of this thing I saw recently: I think the title explains itself well enough. Not sure how I feel about it, though. I think there's a behavioral/mental reason behind the fact that there have always been rules and house-rules to avoid death at 0. Like, we can't...

I've done a lot of point-crawl "abstract" dungeons, but more often I do pre-planned dungeons and pretty much everything here ^^^ covers what I consider important. Frankly I didn't consider a couple points, like one-ways.

Yup! I wasn't really referring to PCs being instakilled, I think the discussion comes from people trying to simulate every event in the world with the game's rules. "How can the warrior-king (an NPC) have been killed by a single dagger stab while asleep?! His traitorous wife with a dagger does...

Yup! They're enough to simulate what's needed in a combat situation, and many narrative situations. It's just that once you go to narrative stuff like "hero murdered in his sleep with a dagger to the heart," then you need to just say "anyone could be killed if they're helpless in a non-combat...

Does anyone know what happened to this product line? It's not on the Petersen Games site anymore, and the book itself is out of print. I don't know of a legit way to get ahold of the PDFs either.

Everyone knows fireball is a 3rd level spell, can't go around altering sacred cows! 😆 Only sort of kidding there IIRC fireball capped out previously, I'm thinking of 2e- that was one reason to pull out delayed blast fireball, bigger damage cap!

Not only that, but unless one of them tanked recently, there are two DnD MMOs currently. Dungeons & Dragons Online, and Neverwinter.

Carrot's Destiny is Dominion, becoming king of Ankh-Morpork.. or maybe that's his fate? Either way, Carrot, Vimes, and Vetinari have been actively fighting against it since Men-at-Arms. It's definitely not one he chose himself, he must've rolled it and not liked the result 😆

I've been getting by with it as my primary income for a few years now, 3.5-4hr sessions for $40/seat. If you think you run a good game, don't be afraid to set a higher price. The quality of games out there is really mixed. When I started I was doing $35/seat, and I tried lowering to $25 as a...