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    D&D 5E Something Terrible Is Happening With Bags Of Cheese

    You mean...someone's going to try to cut the Cheese? Johnathan
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    Do highly unique characters still get a bad rep; and: how to give them room to exist?

    Assembled crowd at the Oddball PC Designers Anonymous meeting: "Hi, Dannyalcatraz!" Johnathan
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    D&D General How Was Your Last Session?

    In tonight's "Ghourmand Vale" session, the PCs: Paid to have my petrified sorcerer returned to flesh. Queried an NPC bard friend about what to expect in the chamber we'd unearthed (and in which we fought a beholder the previous session), specifically asking him: Is that magical metal statue...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Iron golem. Glabrezu. In sequence. Johnathan
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    What are you reading in 2024?

    I'm trying something a little different after a whole string of 500+ page Lisa Jackson thrillers: A Mortal Bane, by Roberta Gellis. It's a murder mystery...set in London...in the year 1139...involving the murder of a foreign traveler whose body is found at the doors of a church which adjoins a...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Tieflings hatching fiendish dinosaur eggs. Johnathan
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    Ghourmand Vale (3.5 campaign)

    ADVENTURE 52: A GNOLL IN THE ROAD PC Roster: Ageratum Purslane, halfling rogue 12 Alistair Mandelberen Pastlethwaite, human sorcerer 12 Chaevaris Noarunal, elf archer 12 Harlan Starblade, half-elf paladin 12 NPC Roster: Orchid, elf druid 12 Game Session...
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    Commentary thread for that “Describe your game in five words” thread.

    Yeah, they stuffed me in an extradimensional space, teleported to our home city, and paid a wizard to cast stone to flesh on me. So I'm better now, just ticked I didn't get to see the killing blow get delivered on the stupid beholder. Still and all, it was better than that time a ghost...
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    What are you reading in 2024?

    I'm willing to accept that. Johnathan
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    What are you reading in 2024?

    When I was in high school (class of 1982 - yeah, I'm old), I joined the Science Fiction Book Club, and one month I didn't return the order sheet in time and as a result was shipped (and billed for) the two featured selections for the month. One was a book by C. J. Cherryh and the other looked...
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    D&D General How Was Your Last Session?

    In tonight's "Ghourmand Vale" session, the PCs: Were returning home to the Vale (a three-day trip), when on day two they found a dead gnoll in the road Saw the gnoll's head had been crushed to a pulp (likely from one blow), and noted there was no blood and no footprints anywhere around the body...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    %@#&ing beholder petrified my sorcerer! Johnathan
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    Ghourmand Vale (3.5 campaign)

    ADVENTURE 51: SHRINERS CONVENTION PC Roster: Ageratum Purslane, halfling rogue 12 Alistair Mandelberen Pastlethwaite, human sorcerer 12 Chaevaris Noarunal, elf archer 12 Harlan Starblade, half-elf paladin 12 NPC Roster: Orchid, elf druid 12 Game Session...
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    Let us have a reckoning - pre-modern casual English

    I got a smile out of an elderly lady in the swimming pool when she was showing off her new swimming suit, and I told her it looked "quite fetching." She said she couldn't remember the last time she'd heard that word used in that context. So I guess, in that instance, I made "fetching" happen...
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    Dreams of Erthe

    ADVENTURE 72: POWER PLANT PC Roster: Alewyth Putterpye, dwarf priestess of Aerik 15 Thurloe Pulver, human fighter 3/wizard 3/spellsword 9 Wakuren, half-orc cleric of Cal 7/paladin 8 Xandro Silverstrings, human bard 6/rogue 9 Zander Quilson, elf...
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    D&D General How Was Your Last Session?

    In tonight's "Ghourmand Vale" game session, the PCs: Headed to an abandoned shrine up a mountain slope, finding the entire place shrouded in heavy fog Approached the shrine as follows: The elf druid wildshaped into a dire bat, which was ridden by the human sorcerer (on top) and the halfling...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Fought giants, cauchemar, hag covey Johnathan
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    What are you reading in 2024?

    Ditto. And I got to meet all three of those particular Doctors at a Dr. Who convention in Chicago in 1983, the 20th anniversary of the show. Patrick Troughton was a fascinating man. Johnathan
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    As an aside, I sent the following image to the player in question this morning: Johnathan
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