Recent content by Stormonu

I do miss having a reason to pull out my Decaider(TM) D10 and have a reason to roll it for stuff like thieves skills.

Yeah, I was going to mention GW doing gangbusters pumping and dumping customers, but someone beat me to it. Also, TSR put out a LOT of adventures in 2E - the problem was they weren't "generic" but had big banners tying them to different campaign worlds. If you didn't play XYZ campaign world...

For me, the good is in advantage/disadvantage and getting away from pre-selecting your spells into slots. Having a small list of spells to draw from, but not forcing you to plan out each and every slot is very enjoyable. Monster design not necessarily following PC rules is refreshing; I...

5.14 (All are bi-weekly, playing ~4-6 hours per session) Mines of Phandelver; DM; In person; Forgotten Realms (3-4 months; completed, ending at 5th) Ghosts of Saltmarsh; DM; In person/VTT; Greyhawk (1½ years; played to completion of The Final Enemy) Castle Ravenloft (from Curse of Strahd); DM...

Yeah, looking back at it, Return was a big F-U to the old adventure.

I had to do a rewrite of Tamoachan for 3E because my players were above the recommended level and I really wanted to run them through it. I ended up doing a fair amount of Mezoamerican research because of it and it gave me a much greater appreciation of the overall adventure. I think some of...

Does B&G do silver/gold/platinum versions of the basic sets? That’s be a great place to do that IMHO. And, for the record, I greatly enjoy White Plume, including the TotYP version.

Just NO. I don't want the return of 4E in any form or fashion. If you can't handle the cognitive load, don't play a wizard or don't play a high level wizard. Don't destroy the wizard class for the sake of "simplicity".

There's NOTHING fantastical on the cover. It's a knight on a horse - it could be the cover of a book about Charlemange, the War of the Roses, King Richard or anything mundane. Nothing speaks to a mythical or supernatural nature. Not even a glowing sword or the likes of a pegasus or griffon as...

There's a very good chance that the next painting commissioned (under threat of dragon breath) was the adventurers with their heads on wall plaques with momma dragon sneering nearby.

Yeah it’s definitely tongue in cheek. Clearly, for the group it was hard-fought, but we as gamers are going “really? You call that a dragon?” It also reminds me of the scene in Jaws where the fisherman have caught a shark, thinking it’s the great white, but we as an audience know better. If...

Well, this seems to put the old adage to rest, "How do you make a million dollars in the RPG Biz? You start with 10 million." I'm glad to see RPGs being in this kind of healthy state.

Removed. Thought this was attempts to tweak the class, not advise.

Player's Handbook, p 7. I think that is my favorite piece of 2E art. <EDIT: I should specify it was the version with the charging knight on it from 1989. The 95's black version and the Revised Premium from 2013 used completely different artwork.>

Honest question - which ones?