Recent content by Koloth

Another vision aspect to watch for is color blindness. Most of my working career in IT involved having at least one person in my office with some aspect of color blindness. One person was pretty much mono-chromatic. One supervisor was red/green. Another was green/yellow. He could not tell...

Not the only one. But so far, this seems very optional. If you don't want to participate, plenty of non blind box dice available. But if someone can afford $25 to spend on a 'take a chance' box, go for it. Gambling on the lottery often results is just a worthless bit of paper. At least...

GM's call of course. But just because it is long established canon, doesn't mean the Characters know about it. IMO, this falls into the same area of Players knowing every detail in the MM and supplements about critter X when there is little way the characters would have any info about the...

Older Grognard posting response. When I started my gaming path, there was the white box set(D&D), the black box set(Traveller) and the 5x7 ziplock set(Star Fleet Battles). There were a few other things but as a poor starving college student, funds were limited and choices had to be made...

Not sure that Identify will cover every possible abnormal use of a magic item. Bag of Holding(BoH) and Portable Hole(PH) are designed as stuff holding devices. I would expect that Identify will return normal information like how much crap it will hold, any size/weight limitations on said crap...

Plane shift gets the Lich to the starting plane. Exact location probably doesn't matter. Followed by Teleport to get the Lich to the very well known destination of its throne room that just a few moments ago was violated by a ceiling walking monk. And it is now a fully activated and rather...

I think this is a very good question. Even if there are tales passed down about Bartleby the Black, adventurer extraordinaire, seems very unlikely that the details would be exact. Bards tend to embellish tales. Does your character think the AOE is 10' radius or 100' radius? Is there a blast...

Turned the TV on in time to see the capsule free falling just before drogue chute deployment. Those main chutes took a long time to open. Interested in how the heat shield performed with the different re-entry profile. Seems they had some com problems once they were on the water. Glad...

Guess we will have to disagree on this one. GM of course has the final authority. But having a 2nd adult to assist can be a huge time saver. If the GM has to choose between a kid going "I have to pee, where's the bathroom?" and leaving the rest of the kids unattended, what do you suggest? Or...

From a player's perspective that has played with younger kids: 2nd the idea that you are the GM. Another adult needs to be the parent/guardian. The 2nd adult handles the "I want a drink/snack." "I need to pee..." "I am bored..." stuff. A GM doing parenting stuff is a distracted GM...

As a player, my Bard pretending to be a Rogue somehow and unknowing at the time impressed a mimic in a dungeon that decided to follow us home. Everyone failed the "see the mimic" perception checks while in the dungeon. We found it outside our base of operations(a tavern) the next morning...

Vampires are often portrayed as charismatic. More through force of personality then pure good looks. Wouldn't be out of character for some rather normal living types to be followers. Possibly even some nominally good types that are fooled by the vampire's personality. Maybe the vampire...

Such happenings are sad, but from the WOTC perspective, shipping a bunch of 2nd ed stuff from the soon to be closed TSR warehouse/HQ to the WOTC warehouse/HQ probably didn't make much sense, in light of plans to create and release 3rd ed. Neither shipping nor warehouse space are free. Plus the...

The KS added the ability to add on 8x10 signed prints for $20 per. Plus the answer to the "Do prints increase shipping if you pledged a book?" was NO.

In my part of the US, gardening is generally considered a subset of yardwork. Gardening might be working in a decorative or vegetable garden. Yardwork might be mowing the grass, trimming hedges or trees, general cleanup, planting something not in a garden. If one mows the grass and weeds the...