Recent content by plecostomus

My cleric had an encounter with the cursed Wish gem in Tomb of Horrors, which caused him to lose the ability to hold gemstones, including diamonds for resurrection spells. In a more recent quest he acquired a special diamond that not only had limitless value in terms of spell component usage...

^^^ I can't really speak to the above except that it sounds cool to me. I am running this adventure in the Dragonlance setting, so I really had to do the jellyfish to get The Lost City to work at all. Literally any other setting and source of the people in the city would be better. Related to...

Have you ever looked at the Flee Mortals! version? It's pretty similar to the one that Matt Colville homebrews in this video: My Level 3 (2024) party woke up an ankheg at the end of our session yesterday, so next session I am going to try the FM! ankheg on them.

I was going to try and respond to specific parts of the OP, but I kind of have the reverse situation. I don't know what playing old D&D is like, aside from one time we played Tomb of Horrors as a dream sequence using the DCC system. So instead, I'll just tell you about my last session as a...

Nothing specific to do with Critical Role. Your player has to use the 2014 Fighter class to use a 3rd party 2014 Fighter subclass as no 3rd party 2014 subclasses are implemented for 2024 classes. There is a list of official & compatible 2014 subclasses for 2024 in the following post...

I like the new descriptions too, and I wish the art had been up to the challenge. I think the funniest description is that it's common for the Infernal tieflings to stink of sulfur or smoke. Talk about something you could never, ever bring up to a player who just picked Infernal because oh yeah...

There's also something like 200 years of black Shakespeare productions at this point. Idris Elba once talked about how Shakespeare is a requirement to be taken seriously in British theater. It might not hurt for someone convinced a non-white actor will ruin their fave to start watching some of...

The game where I am a player: I think we've run 2.5 dungeons over 5 years of playing. The .5 is for a straight series of rooms with some traps in them. We fought 1 dragon in a friendly challenge, interacted with a trapped dragon we haven't been able to free yet, and found some dragon bones...

Module 2 / When A Star Falls has a few encounters with no maps provided. Here are the free maps I decided to use: Death on the Moors (Memory Web) Moorland Stream from fantasymaps Party starts lower right across the stream Piyarz's Shadow (Sion) Camp from darkvineworld Party starts in...

I actually did this entire update process with Dragonlance for my first DM'd game this year. Quests From the Infinite Staircase lists Dragonlance as one of the settings for its first module. I thought the name sounded cool, and that led to a few months of reading about the setting. To be...

The party for my game includes a MCDM Flee Mortals! retainer stat block, the Hobgoblin Tactician, but the actual NPC is a heeler dog that can talk. The NPC being a dog was requested by the players. D&D has built-in background for this in terms of Awakened animals and plants. The dog's lore is...

Sorry, but if they can't find an actor with eyes shaped like this, it's not real Dragonlance! More seriously, one thing I've noticed in shows with contact lenses is the lens does not react to light, so someone wearing lenses always looks zombified. A lot of lenses look cool in a photograph...

My weird request is that if it's a TV show, I hope the dragons are small. Like this: Not this: I have nothing against big dragons. I just think it's cool that Dragonlance has these dragons which are conveniently sized for riding. I'm not sure this is an actual rule though, it might just be...