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At what point, do YOU SEE it, that the body's totally ruined, so Raise won't work, but resurrection will? I think I'd just judge on a case-by-case basis, according to what happened. I was going to suggest that maybe the death by massive damage circumstance (50hp and failed saving throw) would be a ...

Just one more way the game helps people with life skills. For me, I'm quite good with statistics and probability. I attribute that at least in part to playing D&D and Warhammer. I also have a stronger grasp of the Imperial system than is necessary (being in a metric system country) due to havin...

I got 33,700. many words which I knew I recognized from their similiarity to Spanish words Yeah, I also found that a lot of the harder words were very similar to Spanish words. I can speak Spanish (although not at your level of proficiency in English), and as such, many of those words I could work o...

I've heard of things like "the lost generation" or something along those lines for a short period of Australian history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Generation I was confusing them with these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations but nope, actually the lost generation ar...

I'm a maths and probability nerd, but have never played backgammon. A quick google tells me that movement is as follows: - roll two dice, and get to move that many spaces (with the two dice being allocated to two separate pips, or both to the same one) - doubles means you get to move that amount 4 t...

Now that's talent, driving and reading a book at the same time :lol: j/k :coffee: Haha, you may joke, but I have a friend who tried watching TV shows on his laptop while driving. He'd place it on the passenger seat and claimed he only looked over at the screen when stopped. Thankfully I think he on...

Lyrwik - Have you read the Black Company books? It's gritty medieval fantasy about a crew of mercenaries. It takes many of the medieval fantasy tropes and looks at them through the eyes of soldiers who just want to get through the current fight and get home in one piece, and are no longer awed or i...

I've been reading a little less than usual during the lockdown, as while working from home saves me the commute time - the daily commute is also when I usually do a fair bit of reading. But, I'll share some of my recommendations from things I've read recently. Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (...

New Hegdeh wrote:I am not sure what to make of this, I've been wondering whether to ask for a 2nd edition version of them, but you may like taking them into account: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masque_of ... (Ravenloft)

I actually have that box set, but have never delved into it. I'll have a look.

Argh, I'd written a full reply here, and then somehow got logged out and lost it. Have you ever read/used Central Casting - Heroes of Legend? It's a wonderful tool for randomly generating a character's backstory, and contains a lot of material, in the form of random tables, that might be of use to y...

New Hegdeh wrote:Sages and Specialists should contribute to it.

Do you just mean in terms of including the various specialist NPC classes? That's a good idea. Will add that to my spec.

Something I've done in the past is to create an NPC generator, which generates a whole lot of NPCs at once - mostly for the purpose of filling out towns, that kind of thing. It would essentially just generate say, 1000 characters, give a random name (from a huge list), randomise gender and race acco...

I draw on existing settings for the pantheon, but other than that I've always created my own worlds. This hasn't been out of any objection of the published settings, just that I don't really know enough about them to be able to run them accurately. They're ok for a dm who doesn't WANT TO, or have th...

Overall, this looks to me as though it's trying to address a similar niche as the official Adventurer's League games, where you can play with a random group and go on a different, unrelated adventure each session. The closest I've been to running something like this is games where there's no over-ar...

I suppose another reason it's probably less common is that it's harder to really have different aspects or a duality when it's just a single deity. Of course, despite the fact that there was only one god, that doesn't mean there was only one religion. Worship of the one god had numerous sects. I sup...