Are you playing Anomalous Subsurface Environment? In Fifth Edition? And did Terry and Phil steal your characters’ sick rock? Did they also sell it in a city and did you use Wyrd Ways of Walstock for that? Do you want to expand the dungeon beneath the hospital so that instead of a demonic snake there’s an ancient super-science machine powered by said sick rock?
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If you ever make a sandbox adventure, make sure that your locations have enough incoming and outgoing leads to each other. Here are the ones I caught reading Curse of Strahd:
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In an xp-for-treasure system, carrying capacity becomes meaningful. Treasure can vary not only in its worth but also its weight, and there is a risk/reward tradeoff when deciding to haul a heavy item back to civilization. Expendable resources such as torches and rations add another layer of decision-making to the game.
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I’m running a game using Patrick Wetmore’s brilliantly fun megadungeon, using Fifth Edition. As requested in the module, I’ve been shooting him quick e-mails of how the game is going, but it’s starting to feel a bit parasocial so I figure I’ll just plop them here – maybe I can extract some lessons from it!
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There’s a wealth of information online on how to run games. Some of it is pretty good! Here’s a list of posts that:
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WordPress broke my sweet Google Docs script and now I can’t edit my original sales figures post anymore 😢. So here’s a new one with some recent figures. I’ll start from when I began tracking pageviews through imgur. Sunken Ruins of Ishau Heist on Cassalanter Villa Heart of Goodhollow 20 – 26 October Views: 252Sales: […]
Tomb of Annihilation’s fifth level, the Gears of Hate, is terrible. Not because it’s impossible (which it is), or because it’s trivial (which it can be), but because it refuses to explain itself. If you’re unfamiliar with the dungeon, here’s a quick rundown: See those three pentagonal rooms in the center? They’re on gears that […]
In 2015 the angry GM wrote a thing about combining monsters to create bosses. It’s a good article! But he makes a weird assumption at the start. He acknowledges that 5e fixes the “single monsters are weak” problem with Legendary Actions but then claims those are too awkward and creates his own way of making […]
If you play Dungeon of the Mad Mage as an open-table campaign where sessions represent excursions that are potentially months apart, you’ll want to repopulate the dungeon between games.
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