Recent content by J-H

1980s D&D: The Satanic Panic is all made up! D&D is safe and harmless. 2020s D&D: Hold my beer and watch this. We're going to make a whole book in honor of a real-world group that at least dabbled in the occult and named Satan as their honorary president.

D&D Beyond doesn't support the barbarian either; activating Rage doesn't list resistances or increase weapon damage. I would chalk this up to the usual - they do what they do, and if they've missed something, maybe they'll fix it next year or maybe they won't. It took, what, 10 months to get a...

Yeah, it was really annoying how many full-on fiend looking tieflings there were in the Tasha's art. I am not onboard with them being super common.

Related: In my Baldur's Gate II game, HP growth followed the 2e model. After level 10 you get 3, 2, or 1 hp per level based on your character class. Nobody's ever going to crack 200hp without an epic boon, and the casters are still a little under 100hp at level 17. This keeps the players...

One of the few times my high level party turned tail and ran away was after the 18th level artifact-sword-wielding Paladin peered into a crevice and got mind-blasted by a CR2 Intellect Devourer. They left the entire (optional) dungeon they were exploring and flew elsewhere, with the drooling...

-Ran a 13-20 campaign -Currently have a party that just hit 18th level. -Currently running some 20th level encounters My thoughts: 1. Don't worry about how the party is going to solve a problem. Just make an interesting solution or challenge. They'll come up with a solution. 2. Don't allow a...

I've run a 13th-20th level campaign and it wasn't too bad. You can throw the kitchen sink at the party and they'll probably survive. The BBEG battle was pretty tough and they almost lost. I'm test-running a 20th level module now, and it's going okay. Meteor Swarm is a heck of a battle opener...

There was a thread about this around 6-9 months ago. I've started doing it with dragons (4 parts) for some progressive disablement, and it's worked fine.

Dungeons are pretty consistent. The alternative is nova fights, and exploring a dungeon is fun for both sides. Dragons? Usually only 1-2 per campaign.

I usually give an extra attunement slot or two out. The 5e rules are really inconsistent on what requires attunement. An armor of resistance to 1/13 damage types is not worth attunement in my mind. When I did my BG2 campaign, I limited attunement to items that modified base stats (6 core...

I agree with the others... you need more upper bounds if this is a YTD figure. Meeting 3 weeks per month for 2.5 hrs for 10 months = 75 hours. Short sessions already puts me in your largest category, without accounting for the irregular play with my wife & kids.

I wouldn't class the Handmaid's Tale as science fiction at all. There's no scientific or technological advance. It's just a thriller* of some sort set in the near future, similar to how many of Tom Clancy's novels were when they were written. *I don't know the actual genre, but it probably...

I got to get college credit for taking a Science Fiction literature class in college. The prof's definition was basically "Science fiction takes the real world and asks "What if X? What would that look like?, where X is at least somewhat scientifically plausible." It's where you end up with...

Dune falls under what I would define as "science fantasy," as it borrows elements from science fiction ("What if...?", other worlds, space travel) as well as fantasy (magic BS mental powers, ancestral memories that are entire personalities, and prescience which, on my recent rereading of the...

I don't really get the doom'n'gloom about the world some people are having right now, but I too have been wanting more noblebright type stuff in my settings. I'm tired of "evil is winning, it's killed a lot of people, and we can eke out a win amongst the ashes." I think my next campaign is...