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player responsibilities
"People behave very differently under gold as xp than under monsters as xp." I never played under that style of play, neither have I ever run a game that way. I always played in games where...
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STILL WAITING FOR CEASE-FIRE IN DALLAS
Houston, Texas. The national government and separatists in the country's south may have agreed to a cease-fire and peace talks six weeks ago, but you wouldn't know that here in the stronghold of the...
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Inspiration alternative [5e]
I've noticed that my players tend to forget about Inspiration. As a player I often only used it as a last resort sort of rolling mechanic. As a GM I forget to dispense so I tend to just say "Everybody...
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deeper into Dwimmermount
Our gaming group hasn't been able to meet up regularly for some time now. We're averaging about one session per month due to multiple schedule conflicts. Since I have a lot of time to think about the...
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"This ugly little thing is under my protection!"[5e Dwimmermount]
After a month of not gaming at all and a long recap with the players, we got back into the dungeon. We've had two sessions since our long break and this is a summary of the first of those two. I'll...
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"When this day is done, I will make you bow to your new Queen."[5e Dwimmermount]
So, the last session started with me opening up to my players about how I don't really like the 5th edition rules as a whole. I don't plan on changing the ruleset that we're using for this campaign...
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"I'm gonna pimp my undead."[5e Dwimmermount]
I was planning on including another one of Arnold Kemp's rival adventuring parties in this weeks session, even wrote up stats for this group of NPCs to harry the PCs with, but we were down one player...
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house rules for [5e]
One of the things I don't like about 5th edition is that I feel like its too easy to bounce back from a fight by taking a long rest. I've had two players in my Dwimmermount game who expressed how they...
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Re: why I love Apocalypse World
For a long time I never paid very much attention to the indie RPG scene. I was aware of Indie Press Revolution but I didn't know who Ron Edwards was. I had played a few indies due to a very...
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"You realize I could kill all of them right now?"[5e Dwimmermount]
Missing another player this week, the beginning of our Dwimmermount session started with a diversion in order to justify one character's absence and another character's return.The party heard a...
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roll a saving throw success = you shake off the disease with little more than a headache and a snifflefailure = you lose Constitution immediately and then again every morning until your Con reaches...
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I think level drain is stupid.
I love Dwarf Fortress! It's brutal, unforgiving, and it doesn't care about helping you learn how to play. The lesson of Dwarf Fortress is that eventually, no matter what, you will lose. You will learn...
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Acolyte: 1st-level+3 attack ; 1d6+1 mace , 2 unarmedAC robe 10 ; scale 14HP weak 5 ; average 10 ; strong 18Speed 30Wisdom +2 ; Medicine +4, Religion +2 ; passive Perception 12Languages Common, +1...
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Megadungeons are pinball, and the party is the ball [5e Dwimmermount]
While I was thinking about the party's progress through Dwimmermount, it occurred to me that their foray into the first two levels was careful and planned but now that they're encountering more of the...
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My players meta-game too much [5e Dwimmermount]
Table talk included banter about my last blog post, specifically the rival adventuring parties they might cross paths with and the fact that Melissia was, in fact, probably not a woman trapped behind a...
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Daughter of Baba Yaga [a Sorcerer Origin for 5e]
(inspired by Timothy Brannan's tradition for Basic)Daughters of Baba YagaYour innate magic comes from your ancestry which can be traced back to a powerful witch or mystic. Only the women in your family...
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the Saturday night game [5e]
I rarely post about the game that I GM on Saturday nights. We don't play every week, and scheduling conflicts sometimes means we only play once a month. It's a 5th edition D&D game set in the...
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a return to the surface [5e Dwimmermount]
We were missing the player who plays the party wizard, Sulla, last session. Rather than have him split from the party somehow I just ran Sulla alongside the group, paired his initiative with Tsetsig's,...
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I can't draw circles
I finally sat down and committed a level of my megadungeon to ink, scanned it into the computer, and now am sharing it with you. This is only one level. It's not the entrance, but it is meant to be...
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a city adventure [5e Dwimmermount]
Skull.18 10:45pm, the party - consisting of Tsetsig the cleric of Typhon, Gaius Marius the dragon sorcerer, Brughat the dwarf, and Sulla the necromancer - makes the long trek back to Muntburg from...
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