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Thanks! I’ve wanted a home bar/game room for years (which feels like such a basic white dude thing to say, but when I say it I’m thinking RPGs rather than sports), so when my partner and I were finally able to get our own place, converting the one-car garage into what we now call the Red Dragon...

According to the Greyhawk Online wiki, his species was never established in any published material until Lost Laboratory.

Now that’s D&D! Digital tools are nice, but nothing beats the tactility of pencil and paper, nor the DIY patina of a well-used character sheet. The hand-drawn character portrait is incredibly charming as well. Am I mistaken in thinking your drawing style has some Akira Toriyama influence?

Oh, that’s cool! I assume custom dice with more faces numbered with higher and lower values instead of a straight 1-20? Could be fun. As I mentioned a few times, I think I poisoned my own well by framing this conversation around fixing a “problem” with advantage and disadvantage. What I should...

Yeah, pretty much. There are other settings whose vibes are more to my tastes, but in terms of sheer quality, nothing beats Eberron.

Thanks!

The notice board is hung from the side of the fridge, which is a little out of frame to the left of the shot with the bar. Not pictured is the entertainment center with the TV and the video game consoles across from the couch, which is both anachronistic and too cluttered for me to want to show...

In the words of Brennan Lee Mulligan: “uh, incredible.” First session of a new campaign after a pretty long hiatus from DMing and it feels great to be back in the saddle. It’s also the first session I’ve run in my new home, and I am absolutely loving the setup I’ve got in our game room. It’s...

Understandable. Personally, this is why I don’t really want to use Emphasis as he does, to make rolls more dramatic on his own whim. But I do like the idea of using it instead of rolling a single d20 when a roll has both advantage and disadvantage. That’s a situation where I feel like the added...

Yes, an accurate assessment. I would note that in combat there are always degrees of success due to natural 20s (which Emphasis makes twice as likely) being critical hits and natural 1s (which Emphasis makes slightly less than twice as likely) always missing regardless of total. Out of combat...

I get you. I think I started this thread off on the wrong foot by framing it as a solution to the advantage/disadvantage stacking “problem.” Ultimately I just thought that using BLeeM’s Emphasis mechanic in place of a single d20 roll when a test has both Advantage and Disadvantage was a cool...

I haven’t gone through to count, but I think it’s fairly common. Yes. In the example in post 18, I demonstrated going from Emphasis to Advantage, back to Emphasis, and then to Disadvantage. As I say in that post, what’s happening under the hood here is functionally the same as counting the...

No worries. My post #18 contains a practical example of what I’m trying to describe. I think what you may be missing is that in 5e, especially in the later end of the 2014 rules and now as more standard in the 2024 rules, there are a lot of features that allow you to give a roll advantage or...

That’s an interesting alternative, but more tracking than what I was going for here. I probably framed this thread incorrectly. My intent was, “Hey, Brennan Lee Mulligan’s Emphasis mechanic seems pretty cool, what if I tried using it when a roll would have both Advantage and Disadvantage...

Well, the idea here is supposed to be a house rule that allows multiple instances of Advantage and Disadvantage to be relevant without needing to track stacking instances of them. But, whatever floats your boat.