Recent content by kigmatzomat

The Storyteller system was developed by Tom Down from the first edition of Shadowrun. It has none of the improvements of SR2. Its actually pretty easy to translate storyteller to SR. Both are stat+skill dice pools, ST has stats 1-5, SR has "common" stats 1-6 with extremes of 9. Given...

I think the Agreed, but again, I posited time constraints should be limited to bosses for the most part. So it should NOT be "constant, never-ending, never-fading time pressure". There should be a lot of scenarios where there are opportunities to take a break/rest (though it does let...

The "all marathon, all the time" meta are "World's Largest Dungeons" and games where each dungeon must be cleared without leaving and there are no non-dungeon encounters. Once the campaign includes traveling encounters, scouting parties, enemies that flee, etc you get a mix of 5MWD and marathon...

Depends. You send a 6th level fighter to gather marsh herbs with zero relevant skills and they may pray for an enemy cavalry charge. "Ooh, its good thing you made your CON save, that poison sumac is only going to give you disadvantage for the next 24 hours." "But. (scratch-scratch)...there...

Ahhh, Cantrip McUpcast. I've heard of you.

{deity} no. We start at 1st level once, maybe twice, each edition. After that its usually 5th, 9th, or 11th. Part of that is that we have a "20 year veteran soldier" as equivalent to 4th level fighter. This is our threshold for "stops a goblin horde with numerical advantage", yours may vary...

I ran 3e 1st-23rd level and played 5e 7th-20th level. I prefer the overall granularity of 3e and would happily go back. Oddly, all the attempts at setting bounding boxes seems to have made getting the encounter's right even more difficult. The 3e CR system was imperfect, but imo once you...

Our house rule is that non-sapients use their HD to heal whenever possible. There's no "planning for the future" there. Which means if we have any AoE healing affects we plan to use on the mounts, we do it before the rest completes.

No reward for staying behind.

As a boosted basic steed for level 5-12, its a solid change. At 9th get a boost to hp & AC with a 3rd level slot. The plus side of Xanathar's Greater Steed at 4 is they understand language, keep share spells, and can have additional specials like faster speed, darkvision, more hp, languages...

I left out the part where steeds, being int 6+ and who understand language, can attune magic items. You need an item that can be used by the steed, though. Pegasi and dire wolves/tigers are pretty limited in options. Hats and helms are generally a no. Also things that require command words are...

I don't do that but I have had a dragon take the mule of a 2nd level party as they made camp. They didn't lose any important gear as it was unloaded and they had consumed enough supplies they didn't need the mule. But they did need to know that there were REASONS this area was not inhabited...

First, Aid raises your max hit points, its not temp hit points. So it stacks with temp hp. Plus healing "renews" it, so its not just hp now, it can be +5hp/fight throughout an adventuring day. And one Aid benefits 3x targets, so its way more efficient than it looks, especially on summons that...

What? You didn't cast Warding Bond? Or Aid? Heroism? (Those last 2 can apply to both of you at the same time with one casting each) Get the Inspiring Leader feat to grant bonus hit points because they understand common? Or Mounted combat to take full advantage of the aura bonus to saves? We...

Also keep in mind that prior to the adoption of both stirrups and high-backed saddles, a rider could not do the lance-under-arm maneuver because they'd risk knocking themselves off their own horse. Early medieval lancers needed a stance that allowed them to apply a lethal amount of force to...