Recent content by el-remmen

Kids are overbooked these days which means parents are the ones that suffer.

I do have to add that the amount of time in-game matters more to me than the time out of game. We recently realized in December in one of my games that we had not had a long rest since July (5 sessions) because 18 to 24 hours had not passed in game yet! Which we found hilarious but not game...

I always root for Puerto Rico. 🇵🇷

Yeah, I guess if we were playing weekly 3 hour sessions, then 70 sessions would be a year and half. Except of course, that if we played that frequently we'd probably slow down a little more and enjoy some the things we do gloss over now just for the sake of "expediency" (with "Expediency"...

This is funny to me because I often have the opposite question. How can people play 1 to 10 or even 1 to 20 level D&D campaigns in a year or so? I give what seems to be above standard XP to my groups (unless I am totally misunderstanding how 5E wants you to give out XP in terms of amounts) and...

I've been lucky that in most of my adulthood playing RPGs, starting in college (so discounting middle school and HS days), I have had a pretty dedicated core group of players (though that core group changed about once per decade). So while occasionally one person dropped out or disappeared, we...

This. Except replace ToV with Level Up A5E or whatever other flavor of 5e or all of the above mixed and matched.

When someone says a book is about a singular thing and nothing else (or that is all that matters to "understand" it), I know I can probably safely discount their opinion on literature or most pieces of art/culture.

Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Left Hand of Darkness."

Oh yeah, to me everything after "objectively" is just a Charlie Brown adult talking.

There may be no word I detest to hear more when discussing D&D than "should."

I personally usually do washes at the end, but I do (very) occasionally dry brush parts of a mini afterwards - but I am far from an expert painter, I just do what works for me.

A monster they can't avoid? Probably CR 2. A monster that has been telegraphed and they have a chance to avoid or parley with? No limit really.