Recent content by el-remmen

TFW there have been literally 100+ pages added to a thread since the last you checked it out

Nostalgic? I was updating the compiled and cleaned up PDFs of my old story hour, re-telling the events of my "Out of the Frying Pan" D&D 3E campaign that I ran from 2001 to 2006. I know it is not for everyone, but the fact that anyone still reads and enjoys it all these years later is icing on...

Bumping to say that the compiled PDFs have been re-edited and cleaned up and are available for download in the first post of this thread.

I just edited a 22-year-old thread. I also edited a 20-year-old one and one that was a much younger 19-year-old thread.

I'm with whoever said that they just run with old theories and ideas about how the world works. So for example, there are no "germs" in my D&D world - but work with the miasma theory that holds "that disease originated from particles emanating from decomposing matter, such as that in sewage or...

In general I find endings to be overvalued (I actually write about this some in my scholarly work), so for me and my groups even an ideal "ending" is just when we feel like moving on because I start most campaigns with the idea that it is "indefinite," which is to say, it will continue "forever"...

Assuming TPKs don’t count as “finishing a campaign,” then two as DM and none as a player in 41 years.

Hell (called the Stem of Hell) is actually inside the Abyss. It is a fortress of infernal order in the abyssal chaos. Devils are just demons that accept the diabolical hierarchy, while demons reject all authority save that of immediate power.

My biggest takeaway is that I want to try the optional rule where characters auto succeed at any skill check with a DC of their relevant ability score minus 5 or less

I got 18 of 20!

I feel like Instagram ads are trolling me.

The way I run it is Perception when only using sight (or perhaps hearing and smell as well) but investigation when touching, probing in addition to sight. With different traps having different DCs based on the approach to finding it. The again, I ask players to describe how they are looking and...

With nothing but anecdotal data to go from based on the community of mini painters and terrain makers I am a part of on Instagram, minis and terrain seem to be doing fine though ironically probably some drop off post pandemic.