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Looking at buying an engagement ring. Heard good things about synthetic (lab grown) diamonds. Same quality as real but much, much cheaper. The diamond industry is one of those industries where it's really, really hard to get accurate, unbiased info since the industry itself absolutely floods...

It's been several years, but didn't Uhtred have a woman for a while who displayed some pretty legit magic stuff in S01 or S02? Healed Alfred with it I think? Pretty sure he went on a long quest to kill the person responsible for his brother's death in some special way so that his brother...

Agree- very much so.

Yes, definitely.

How does 2e compare to original PF?

I agree. One of the reasons I like Harrfy better than Cornwell is that his books aren't formulaic at all (I'm on number 4). The plot takes a lot of twists and turns that you don't expect, and you never feel like you are sure what's coming next. Importantly though, the plot twists have a very...

I rarely start threads on this forum, but these books blew me away and I wish someone had given me a heads up about them earlier, so passing this along. They are totally underrated at the moment but that's going to change I'm sure. Not going to get into a deep review since good reads has some...

Will have to check that out, good heads up. Although I suspect if it isn't designed around one specific system it won't be exactly what Im thinking about. Maybe. As far as trusting your players... I find that players make "mistakes" quite a bit when adjusting their characters. Enough so...

Yeah but you are playing via web browser instead of a dedicated app unless I'm mistaken Also an important distinction in the type of thing I am looking for is that it is built from the ground up for a specific system, and incorporates a character builder and tracker. It should also have some...

They need an app for phones and tablets specifically made for whatever system you see playing that is a character builder/tracker and also a battle map with features like dynamic lighting. Everyone can sit around the table and interface using their own device

Roll20 et al. are great for allowing you to game with friends who are in physically distant locations. When my current group started playing, we all sat around the same table, but due to life stuff we are all now scattered across three different time zones. It's really nice being able to still...

I play old games all the time too. Nothing wrong with that. Just finished Super Mario Brothers 3. Still a great game. Liking old games doesn't preclude you from trying new games, though. Tabletop DND isn't a video game. The "hardcore" thing is totally relative. I can use 5th edition to...

To answer your question, it depends more on the GM and the campaign than the system. I would differentiate between "hardcore and gritty" and "broken and unbalanced" and there are a lot of 1st campaigns that were so unbalanced they could be considered broken. 5e campaigns are way more...

I view 1st edition like an old classic car. It's unwieldy and inefficient and technically inferior to the newer version in every way, but it's still fun to drive occasionally, mostly for the sake of nostalgia. TBH there was more of a reason to play 1st before they came out with 5th. 1st still...

Been waiting on that one. This guy is amazing. Anyone interested in history, but especially anyone interested in military history needs to check him out. Edit: figured I'd also mention all his podcasts are on Spotify

Yeah, it's just a guide. If a GM's style is to wing it more, then you could just use this system as a general idea. Also, it specifically mentions that having negative reputations points isn't necessarily a bad thing: "When Being Bad is Good: There is nothing inherently “bad” about having a...

Static alignments made perfect sense in the early days of D&D and they were a useful construct to help guide players toward roleplaying a character who might be much different than the player. They were like guide rails to give players an RP goal and help them stay between the lines. Tabletop...

It's actually kind of a funny transition D&D is going through, and if you really analyze it, you can go pretty deep. I think Wizard's ultimate goal is to try not to categorize any race of humanoids (in its entirety) as "evil." RIght now they seem to be limiting it to orcs and drow- which...

What, specifically, did I write that made you think I support the sanitization of anything? Why don't you go back and reread the examples of quality fiction I mentioned. Unless you are living under a rock, you've at least seen one or two of those shows, and you know there is nothing...

I was going to make a super long post, but this sums it up pretty nicely. If your campaign doesn't have depth and moral ambiguity, it's probably two-dimensional and boring anyway. It's the difference between Saturday morning cartoons and shows like Deadwood, Rome, The Last Kingdom, Mad Men...

I know you didn't mean it this way, but that actually sounds like a pretty interesting plot point in a homebrew adventure.

PoDs were beasts, they could fuck up most things in the zones they were in with ease. They could summon too. The chanter you were talking about might have been using the same trick I used to use, but he was also using it against NPCs. Stupidly, it never occurred to me to try it against NPCs-...

Enchanters could cast the Alliance line on priests of discord to turn them into something like a pet. They wouldn't follow you or anything, but they would aggro anything that attacked you. On SZ I would go to RV with my DE chanter, alliance the PoD in the middle of town, and just stand there...

MM, Unrest, Kedge, Perma. But few people xped in kedge at that time and Perma was hard to get to for lights and usually deserted. Edit: The first time I got into lguk I had already been playing EQ for more than a year. There honestly were only a handful level 50 lights on TZ for the entire...

My first server back in 99 was TZ and I played a wood elf. TZ was supposed to be race teams, but it defaulted to light races vs. dark races instead, since there were so many people on team dark and they dominated for the most part. The darks controlled all the good dungeons (guk, Sola, solb)...

It's always possible there was no hidden treasure and it was one of those "but the real treasure is getting outdoors and exploring the wilderness" things. Then 4+ people died trying to find the "treasure" and he realized it wouldn't go over so well if people found out that there was no actual...

I guess. He won't say who found it or where it was hidden. The first I can understand (kind of) but the second makes no sense if the treasure was real.

I hated "Mines" but I'm definitely in the minority here (I've learned). Everyone else seems to love it.

DoS 2 is definitely worth a pickup while you wait for BG2. I definitely prefer turn based to rt after having played the Divinity games. Personally, the BG reveal looked like it was going to be everything I was hoping for it to be.

Yeah but honestly the charm DPS is best when you charm backstabbing mobs and you need a melee to position the mob and hold aggro. That was essentially my optimal trio- enc, sham, pally: Pally with pulls, lull, buffs, backup heals, minor dps Sham with slows, buffs, heals Chanter with haste...

Haha that does sound fun- dunno how many zones a necro and druid could easily both charm tho. Plus handling three charmed pets seems like a nightmare.

Yeah, I've already done what I consider the optimal trio and it worked really well. I don't want to do that again though, so I was really just looking for interesting ideas other people had that I hadn't tried yet. I agree on the two melee placement making rogue a not great choice for the dps...

Guess I'll go with the sk/sham/wiz trio. Went with pally/chanter/mage last time. Worked really well but this will be a refreshing change.

Who would do the lulling for dungeons?

Contemplating my trio now myself. Pally for dungeon crawls seems a must (tank/puller with lull, side heals, and hp buffs is hard to beat). Was going to go Pally, Sham, Rogue. Seems like the pally/sham are the constant with rogue, wiz, nec or whatever for dps. Not sure if there is an...

Rogue is boring af to play as your main.

The most fun I've had on an EQ emu server in recent memory is when me and two buddies made an ideal full group of 6 (we each 2-boxed) on TAKP. We started as totally untwinked newbs and took our time, hitting every single original trilogy dungeon on the way up the levels. We made it a point to...

I hate lines/crowds/waiting lists and like to mix solo and group stuff. A server with a steady 600ish weeknight pop is way better for my purposes than a server with a 1200ish pop. I haven't played on blue in many years because it just got to be stupid having to wait in line to do anything-...

Blue Pan Pizza Highland Tap (burgers/craft brews) Uncle (ramen) All located within a mile or so of each other in a cool part of down

Funny, that reasoning is why I'm about to go blue