Redsven

Where do I fall if I kill them all, turn then into vampires and send them on a quest to uncurse themselves before they level and become vampires forever?

Yeah, but if you scale these questions down to regions/nations/cities it becomes very useful. Bookmarked these and I'll pick 4 or 5 to answer about each region as I flesh them out

5e ended with xanathar's guide for me. Everything I've found that i wanted after that was 3rd party creators on kickstarter. Hasbro just doesn't understand the game well enough to produce its content

I mean they'll still be relevant because we can still run 5e all tou want, but after the OGL debacle do you really believe them when they say they'll work with the new addition?

This might help with him rolling poorly. I run a swarms AC differently than other creatures. I wanted to give some the peoper feel of being everywhere around the party and settled on this as how to simulate it. When it's at full HP the swarm has a much lower AC, I usually subtract 5 from its stat block. This is because you can barely swing a sword without hitting them, theres just so many. Once the swarm has lost half of its HP I add 5 to the AC on the stat block, because as they thin out they get harder to hit.

Obviously this doesn't work in every situation. To keep combat from grinding to a halt this works best when the swarms are part of an encounter with other creatures. I used it as a supplement to a higher creature’s fight and it kept them relevant as a distraction during the fight. If it's just the swarms and the party struggles to finish them off don't forget that they can retreat under such loses. You don't want them to just keep swinging and missing if they're really struggling.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/717730f1-cad5-4a0f-88c5-d2a6c7dab294.jpeg

Here you go man, I hope you like it.

Yes, I love it. That'll be fun

I think this guy was just someone who's defunct account had been hacked and used to troll. All of his comments from that day featured a ton of both sides arguments and misrepresented statistics, which to me looked like someone who was given talking points and tried to fix any conversation he could into conforming to them.

It was obviously propaganda, and I guess previously I would have thought someone who ran something ad large as reddit wouldn't be so stupid and oblivious...but here I am on lemmy a few months later, so who knows. It's now apparent that spez is that stupid.

I keep exact dimensions on my battlemaps, but I tell my players that world and regional maps are not always drawn to a complete scale. Some places are actually further apart than they appear, some regions may be smaller or larger than actuality, but the general layout matches. I've also told them somethings are left off entirely.

It seems to give them a close enough idea of how to get places while still giving me the flexibility to make the trip interesting for them

I had a guy try to justify the latter type of account as "I'm just not very active on reddit". My man, you made one post, commented on one other post a few weeks later, then complete radio silence for 9 years, just to pop up spreading anti-trans propaganda on post after post?

I've just been throwing breadcrumbs in front of my party for years now and taking them where ever they go. Its been so much more fun than just 'telling my story' for me. I would always have the start of a story I wanted to tell, but could never sort out the middle and the end, so I just let the players do it now and enjoy the show.

Yeah, it seemed like battlemaps should be easier to scroll through with just maps there. I didn't want to clog it up with text posts.

I'm not a pro or anything, but I've been getting better with wonder and dungeon draft and a list of prompts would be fun to see how different people interpret it.