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2024-05-01, 05:02 PMI mean, IDK if there's a way to "solve" this group, as opposed to individual issues. The core problem (from Talakeal's various threads) seems to be...418 replies | 18955 view(s)
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2024-04-30, 02:11 PMRe: Magic Shops (and support services from NPCs in general, such as casting for hire) - They increase player options while present, but if you...186 replies | 10796 view(s)
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2024-04-28, 02:59 PMSo ... if you completely change the scenario, the correct answer changes? :smalltongue: Because the original scenario is more like "there's a...418 replies | 18955 view(s)
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2024-04-28, 02:45 AMHuh, I've never gone that much into Hedgewitch - sounds like I should take a deeper look. It does seem to have a lot of options. Never tried Soul...4 replies | 581 view(s)
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2024-04-28, 01:52 AMI feel like you have weirdly high standards for "not a pod person" 😝 Like, the situation the PCs presented didn't have such incredible urgency,...418 replies | 18955 view(s)
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2024-04-25, 08:21 PMicefractal replied to a thread Player Help Protecting items (particularly a handy haversack) from destruction in D&D 3e/3.5e/d20Put me on the "not hostile GMing" side, especially with the forewarning. I mean, Sunder is a core combat maneuver, hardly obscure. Is "using...28 replies | 1149 view(s)
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2024-04-24, 04:17 AMI'd say that if you're prepared to fairly heavily focus on it (spend a lot of magic talents and some complementary combat talents) it can work fine. ...19 replies | 1876 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 05:16 PMTBF, I might do these two myself, depending on circumstances. For the first, sometimes frame-ups succeed and sometimes innocent people wind up in...418 replies | 18955 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 02:27 PMAh - I think I'm misunderstanding the meaning of tiers here then? I was thinking more like the way classes are tiered. Is it just personal...19 replies | 1876 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 02:00 PMI know an exact transcript isn't possible, but could you give your best recollection of the actual dialog which occured? Because I've heard, over...418 replies | 18955 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 01:24 PMInteresting list! I'm partly in agreement, but I do have some significant differences, probably caused by different play-styles. So here's my...19 replies | 1876 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 12:42 PMI think they were imagining this scenario: Fey: "What are the Fomori planning, exactly?" PC: "They're going to attack Muir woods." Fey: "The...418 replies | 18955 view(s)
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2024-04-21, 06:22 PMIn this case, part of the problem was that the players don't know the fey care about Muir woods. So (if these are city-dwelling fey) they might...418 replies | 18955 view(s)
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2024-04-21, 05:22 PMFear of saying too much and having it bite them in the ass is a big one. And this fear doesn't even have to come from your game, it can come from...418 replies | 18955 view(s)
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2024-04-20, 12:26 AMSo (unrelated to my last post) I've had some thoughts on this. First, I'll acknowledge that anyone saying "the best answer is to play the GM...89 replies | 5488 view(s)
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2024-04-19, 06:27 PMBut if you, say, traveled to the Abyss, incapacitated a demon, trapped it in a dimensionally locked cell, and then negotiated for a service in...89 replies | 5488 view(s)
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2024-04-19, 12:35 PMThe fact that it's a raw charisma check rather than a skill check indicates to me that it doesn't just represent normal negotiation. Coming to a...89 replies | 5488 view(s)
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2024-04-14, 08:19 PMI guess it depends on when you encounter them. I think genies (and wish-granting demons) work best as something for fairly low-level PCs to...89 replies | 5488 view(s)
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2024-04-14, 04:40 AMPerhaps so, but ... People do manage to murder citizens of powerful nations and get away with it. If you publicize yourself as "Bob the Efreet...89 replies | 5488 view(s)
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2024-04-14, 04:24 AMAs has been pointed out, the "compel service" part of Planar Binding is somewhat GM-dependent. However, Planar Binding also brings the creature...89 replies | 5488 view(s)
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2024-04-13, 01:30 PMUsing concentration means you're just trading your actions for the enemy's though, and while Easy Concentration helps, SoP has a lot of other things...24 replies | 3223 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 02:30 PMI think it (the initiative system) would work ok if all of the below applied: 1) The group's not playing in a challenge-oriented style, so...48 replies | 6512 view(s)
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2024-04-10, 07:18 PMI guess my issue with minionmancy as PO is that while it's definitely possible in practice (I've done it as a player and GM'd for people using it),...93 replies | 7297 view(s)
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2024-04-09, 02:40 PMIt should be noted that in many streaming TTRPG shows, they don't go into author stance in front of the audience, so a system which encouraged or...48 replies | 6512 view(s)
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2024-04-09, 05:24 AMicefractal replied to a thread Most states have prisons, our prison has a state... in D&D 3e/3.5e/d20In that case it depends on the ruler's objective - do they specifically want to rule over people who hate them, as like a sadistic thing? Or do they...19 replies | 2163 view(s)
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2024-04-08, 02:58 PMicefractal replied to a thread Most states have prisons, our prison has a state... in D&D 3e/3.5e/d20It depends on your goals - punishment, reformation, or just keeping the prisoners out of circulation? For the latter, a "prisoners in stasis"...19 replies | 2163 view(s)
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