Recent content by Shiroiken

Having read the beginning and end of the adventure, this was my immediate concern as well. This shouldn't be too much of a concern, however, since the Wizards Three have access to some powerful magic, including divine allies. It's not unreasonable for them to be able to get a True Resurrection...

I never went away as a player, as I've been playing regularly since college (2E). Before that I was primarily the forever DM. I fell away from DMing when Legend of the Five Rings RPG came out, which I was a regular player of the CCG. I GMed that for decades instead of DMing, until the D&DNext...

Also, Greyhawk has divisions within its fandom, based on their preferred timeframe. I also took it as a request to avoid bickering about different aspects as well.

I want to preface this by stating that I've always venomously disagreed with the retcon that merged Tasha and Iggwilv into one person. In my games they are two separate people, with two different personalities and goals. Tasha is a whimsical fey mage, while Iggwilv is the vile demon loving witch...

I converted everything down to 70,798 gp, with the following magic items. I rolled a few class specific things, so I'm allowing a choice of options to prevent the players from feeling like they need to play a specific class. Additionally, I typically allow magic item trading during downtime, so...

Greyhawk is the ultimate DM sandbox, as presented in the 83 Boxed Set. It provides enough information to get the DM started, without filling in all the details. This allows the DM the freedom to place whatever they need, wherever they need. Just as most players don't care about setting...

Overall I'd say that psionics is pretty uncommon at best. In 1E and 5E it's really rare, and was only semi-common in 4E. 2E and 3E were still fairly rare due to the lack of desire by players and permissiveness by DMs (there were some really OP busted things you could do in those systems). I...

Something I'm going to try for with my Vecna game is to have the players build their characters with no additional starting equipment. Then I'm going to roll the appropriate number of treasure hoards for the first two tiers. The players will spend the last part of session 0 dividing up the loot...

As I'm a Greyhawk fan, I'm toying with starting the campaign in Greyhawk instead of the Realms. I'm not as familiar with the details of Neverwinter's politics, so it might be easier for me to make adjustments to Dyvers. The real issue I would have is with the motivation for the end of the...

Not familiar with the Black Flag stuff, so I can't vote against it. I like the concept of the A5E stuff, but hard to convince a group to try it. From what I've seen though, I'm holding out for 5E Revised.

We've been largely successful with campaigns. It helps for the DM to have a general story in mind that they want to tell, because that should be the lifespan of the campaign. Once told, it's best to conclude the campaign, rather than push on until it peters out.

Big issue is duration of effects. How long do spells last, and when does the benefit of Dodge end?

That's pretty much every AP

"Adventurers" has a very specific meaning in my Greyhawk. They're a tolerated nuisance that very much live up to the murder hobo stereotype. They're motivated by either greed or excitement, and while some of them might become "heroes," for the most part they're only interested in themselves...

I've largely run the collection of adventures I've accumulated over the decades, mostly from AD&D and BECMI. I didn't care for the way adventures were written in 3E, so I only have a handful from that era, and I never bought any from 4E. I only have Lost Mines of Phandelver and Ghosts of...