Recent content by Lanefan

Even when playing online, a paper character sheet is still the way to go IMO. If nothing else, you get to decide the format it's in and what goes where etc., and that alone makes things light-years easier to find than using someone else's format and layout.

This all makes lots of sense. Nothing to add, really. :)

Ah, of course. I saw "23-Aug" and assumed it meant August the 23rd, and so on. Silly me. :)

In the OP table, the dates given are kinda meaningless without a year attached to each one.

Anything pre-2e or that reasonably-well emulates such. 2e with its emphasis on storytelling isn't as good a fit for dungeoncrawling, which is usually more story-emergent; and 3e (and similar) only works well for dungeoncrawling at low to very low character levels. 4e and 5e (and similar) are...

Maybe split it out such that 'restraint' means restraint without associated damage (always SAXPB) and 'crush' means restraint that packs associated damage along with it (SAXPB except EAXPB if the potential damage is over a certain amount). Or, split it out such that restraint of any kind gives...

Reading this makes me think of another catch-all term that could apply to some monsters: restraint. This could be a SAXPB bonus for anything that has as part of its core attack the ability to physically restrain its victim: --- trappers, lurkers, cloakers --- anything with grabby bindy...

Known: There were holes in the design, whether intentionally put there* or not Learned since: The designers knew very early on that at least some of these holes existed Learned since: The designers did not fix these holes. Resulting options: --- the holes could be left as they were - play on...

I've seen scry-and-fry happen numerous times in 1e, never mind 3e where it was far easier to pull off. It's a thing, IME.

Whenever I design a table for almost anything I always make the table's range either open-ended (meaning I might have to roll a d57 or something because right now the table only has 57 options) or bigger than the number of options with a gap included to allow for future expansion as ideas come...

2-5 is the same average as d6 only with the ends filed off. Easy enough to do as d4+1.

I think no matter how finely we try to tune this, there's still going to be situations where it just comes down to eyeballing it at the time. My head. I made those numbers up as examples to show what I was talking about with damage thresholds. Draining blood miiiiiight be covered by the...

GenCon comps their more prolific GMs (or used to, anyway, no idea if that's still the case) and turning in the players' tickets to the organizers was proof you actually ran the game you said you were going to run.

Blinding spittle is just another form of missile discharge, only with an effect other than damage. That said, blindness maps to an offensive spell effect and thus could count as EAXPB. Tough call. For squirt acid and low-end breath weapons the easiest answer is a maximum-damage cutoff: if it...

Turning into a long day, so not going to get too in-depth here... You've been talking about engagement, which participation is just part of. Yes, you're not participating; that lack of participation does not have to equate to complete disengagement unless you actively choose such. I'm not so...