Recent content by el-remmen

There are other reasons a DM might ban a class, rule, or spell, beside their whim or "setting integrity", or game balance." For example, when I started running 5E, I outright banned warlocks. I had never played in or run a 5E game, but had read the PHB and had plenty of general D&D experience...

Yesterday was session #35 of our Primordial Evil campaign (my homebrew version of Temple of Elemental Evil). It was hella fun. The party descended into the Moathouse dungeon via the secret staircase in the bandit lair on the main level. After rediscovering a portion of the dungeons the party...

I wish for an ignore feature that also hides posts responding to a person I have blocked. And one that auto blocks both people when there is a long train of back and forth involving only them that runs on for pages. Let’s get those AI tools doing something actually helpful! 😂

I’d love to see pics!

Me too. These days I have different variations for full casters vs. partial or martials and most everything fits on two sides of a page with an option for a third. I write character abilities in short hand and find actually writing them out by hand helps me to remember and understand them...

This doesn't really have anything to do with the topic at hand, except an example of how I must play D&D so differently from what I hear is the baseline experience for others. Because as far as I know, I am running very tough fights and other kinds of encounters, awarding XP based on what they...

Isn’t the Draw Steel Rogue called a Shadow and do just that? Or that could just be what I imagine it would do, haven’t spent time with the game. Might be a place to look.

Thus my use of the word “feel” and not “was.”

Folks bragging about being a killer DM (whether they actually were or not) felt a lot more common throughout my gaming experience of the 80s and 90s than post 2000.

And now the child is in bed and my wife and I can begin our own Xmas eve tradition.

Joy is watching your 3-year old’s excitement about getting to drink hot chocolate while watching 1967’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas for the first time (a book she has asked for at bedtime nearly every night since Thanksgiving).

I have some new ideas.

Rereading that thread makes me want to run another one just for fun!

Someone around here’s every post recently makes it clear they need a break and should walk away from here until after New Year’s at the earliest.

I thought it was the Huorns.