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How about if you send the party in like a normal dungeon, but the "helper artifacts" are just keys that also act as scrying foci. The Beware Bear is watching their every move, so if they steal something, he can spring the "BZZT TRIAL FAILED" on them when they leave. If somebody a...

The correct answer is a jackboot stepping on a human face forever, but that's not an option, so just start stabbing people until the situation improves.

Fortune favors the bold. Go save Old Man Organa.

The answer is 12. I've gotten 2 PCs killed. Both PCs and about 9 NPCs were lost while travelling to the dungeon. I fucking hate Keep on the Borderlands. This asshole actually asked me if I just wanted to do "the classic thing" and use the same character sheet for a new character! Fuck no,...

Did he just describe them as large, nasty wolves or did he say "dire wolves"? Have you encountered them before without this instant-kill power? Dire wolves are CR3, is the party higher level and a pack of dire wolves would have been a pushover? Otherwise, yeah, go ahead and treat his game ...

Wasn't this a scene from the crystal ball pool of scrying? Except we had a battalion of elves peppering the men with arrows. We are distinctly support-elfless, so let's not fuck with fate.

Hide and hope our backup arrives.

Signet rings are for sealing letters. Unless we intend to usurp his court via the mail, there's no reason to keep it.

We don't have any combat skills, so I don't like our odds in the duel. Wild mass guessing it is!

Quick, abandon our fated quest in a moment of pointless greed!

Or generically ask for help and hope they just didn't want the choice to be TOO blindingly obvious.

Flash our pearly whites.

I've only seen it in games where a computer is counting your lockpicks and you have a stack of them like ammunition. TT games that mention picks breaking never seem to offer a cost to replace them, but I've seen several that treat it like "your pick breaks, which makes a loud snap, and one of t...

If I say "for twenty dollars, I'll give you a set of RPG rules that are better than Munchausen," and you give me twenty dollars, and I give you a copy of Exalted, you got scammed, son.

It's a physical contact thing. Transubstantiation is a touch-range Transmutation spell that requires ritual casting. Holy water blessing is also touch-range but can be done as a full-round action. I was still a practicing Catholic when I heard somebody tell a joke about blessing the entire ocean. I...

Well shucks, I'll have to find some other way to inflate your suffering for my enjoyment workload.

I've been keeping my head firmly in the sand due to an inability to do anything about anything until the IRS stops holding my tax return over my head, but my South Carolina county (which contains an international airport) had about 200 new cases reported the other day, up from a few dozen last week.

The Japanese units that figured out small unit skirmish tactics rushed 40-90 meters, dug trenches, and rushed further in. They did this under cover from artillery and other units firing. Observers noted most casualties were suffered at the trenchlines, not at the rushes. Love the hard data on charg...

Oh, I pray to whatever gods or demons may be listening, let the Darkest Dungeon system be secretly a d20 under the hood.

Gotta say I like the idea. If I wasn't currently feeding my kids with the damn dole I'd chip in a bit.

Small note: your pitch video's music credit is botched. The letterbox cuts off the text.

Shatner wrote:

The Adventurer's Almanac wrote:Goddamn, that's one hell of a nose on him. Shit takes up like a third of his face.

Of course it is. After all, who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow noes.

Concentration is a kick in the balls, too. Oh, definitely. I'm not a fan of most OSR features, but "spells take effect at the beginning of your next turn, and if you get hit with a stick before then your spell goes poof" actually seems like a reasonable balance point. Heck, if nothing els...

As in-game time progresses the city of Endon changes more dramatically as a few magi-scientific geniuses further innovate their pet projects...all of which will spell some kind of apocalyptic or Orwellian Doom if their excesses are not stopped/safely regulate/etc. An explanation for why the world i...

I'd be more worried about the ducks, too. This was published in the 40s, that woman is no threat at all.

Kaelik wrote:While we are living in 2007 I'll add that everyone should have magic.

Everyone's a wizard.

I once tried to run a game of Shadowrun where the Magician, Magical Adept, Adept, and Technomancer qualities were free and mandatory. Nobody felt small in the pants, but dear lord so many spirits...

We need a pithy way to say "getting hit with a sword ruins your spell, but doesn't stop you from swinging your own sword".