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The people that knew/worked with Brad that have posted in this thread have been saying the same thing (for years now) that Elidroth said in the interview. His biggest critics/detractors are those who had zero experience with him in real life. Those that knew him generally liked and appreciated...

At least a few people here are criticizing a system they've never even played, so I'd take that criticism with a pretty big grain of salt.

Roll20 is sufficient, but if there was a better system out there I'm not wedded to it. I'll check if they have a trial period for Foundry. I'll be able to tell very quickly if it will work for a custom system

I've been using roll20 to test a game that I've designed. I'm guessing you wouldn't be able to do that with Foundry?

Can you easily play games that aren't DnD in it? Also is it free and readily available?

First of all, to my knowledge, Tolkien certainly never "admitted" that orcs were a "racist" creation. I haven't read every word the guy ever wrote though, so if I'm wrong, I challenge anyone to provide proof. Otherwise, let's assume no such thing ever happened. My understanding is that...

I must have missed where Tolkien "admitted" orcs were a racist creation. Anyone care to point me in the direction of the admission, or is this Chris person just full of shit?

What was the comeliness issue?

The vengeance angle can work, but sometimes it gives the players the impression you are pissed because they are acting like murder hobos so you're going to "teach them a lesson." I personally prefer the super high level monk in rags approach. Sure, you can get away with bullying and murdering...

Sounds like you have a good GM. That's a great way to handle a fumble. Abject, humiliating failure can be fun too, but it's always good to have some touch in your quiver as a GM. Anyone who has ever GMed has dealt with players who make math mistakes that always seem to add up in their...

I guess I made him seem worse than he is lol. We are testing a new RPG system and I told the guys in the group to break and exploit everything they possibly could to find holes. So technically he was just doing what I asked him to do even though I didn't exactly mean break Roll20. Plus he...

I've had issues with it too. It may just be my lack of experience using it so far, but you have to draw doors and walls if you use the dynamic lighting function. The walls are supposed to prevent players from moving their tokens and lighting up unexplored portions of the dungeon until they open...

Ah cool, thanks. Searched through product reviews for "diamonds" and didn't see anything. Should have thought about searching for "rings". Edit: although... The most recent post from that thread is 6 years old and the lab grown diamond market has changed significantly in that time. So of...

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...