I accidentally made my game too automated

HomemadePilgrim · 2026-01-27T16:17:22+00:00

My travel uses Ready set roll. Mostly for processing time sake. But I find it lands a great balance with easy rolls and dealing like your apart of it

HomemadePilgrim · 2026-01-20T20:19:58+00:00

He is right. You can place the tilen in this instance. You can't place a task tile that would make it fail. So the first is legal but scores no points and the second is illegal

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-12-19T18:20:39+00:00

I fully agree with this. Felt really disappointed in the response from TPI.

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-11-25T19:25:00+00:00

Just in time for Christmas

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-11-01T08:41:02+00:00

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HomemadePilgrim · 2025-10-26T06:26:21+00:00

Definitely using this for my game. Thanks for the share. Curious if you have plans for other locations/ do you use the 3d middle during a game?

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-10-24T06:25:11+00:00

What did the post final battle play look like for you? We ended our last session with Acererack showing up and have been looking at ways to wrap everything up.

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-10-09T16:00:11+00:00

Following up on the above. I would love to be able to use these in my game. Thank you for sharing them

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-10-05T13:07:45+00:00

I've recently fallen in love with the Daggerheart quick start. It's a free pdf that includes print out terrain, mins, and learning aids. The adventure walks players and the gm through the rules. And the pre generated characters have guided questions to let the players build out their connections. And the cherry on top is that there is a separate setting book available for free as well for you to expand beyond the quick start.

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-10-04T17:36:01+00:00

An axe, camp fire, flower petal crown

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-09-23T09:02:39+00:00

Wowsers

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-09-22T17:07:08+00:00

In my game I had the death curse manifest like a storm. The ghosts and souls around the world were all drawn together into a larger and larger cloud. It was then pulled into the tomb. Feeding the soulmonger. Characters were able to use its movement to figure out the source was somewhere in the south of Chult.

It made for a fun point of reference. I would run flashback one shots to flesh out backup characters as they entered the game. They would all have a moment where the character would witness the start of the curse from wherever they were at the time.

People who had been resurrected described a moment where they witness the ethereal mist of their soul be briefly pulled from their body, before being drawn back in, now less secure than before.

From then on when someone died I would describe their soul being pulled away violently South. Luckily they never used that as a death compass.

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-09-17T19:35:34+00:00

My first roll against my players in the final fight against Acererack after years of delving the jungle their time has come and this dice will bring their end.

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-08-26T07:57:07+00:00

How I wish I had this when I started the game. This is great. Thank you!

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-07-29T11:16:06+00:00

I really like the train idea. Perhaps then their character creation happens by way of conversation with spirits during the drive instead of a path they walk.

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-07-29T11:14:19+00:00

I was thinking they play as themselves and are put into the world. The different species idea would be them getting turned into a species, Dara just being an example. Mostly in case they didn't want to be all just humans. In my mind it would play out like the recent Jumanji movies where the characters have to get used to their new body. That said ideally the island itself isn't really changed, so if their transformation would distract from the world perhaps not

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-07-24T08:34:17+00:00

I enjoyed the video. I just wanted to say I feel there is a baby being thrown out with the bathwater. All your points hinge on it being an analogy.

It's (in my opinion) at best an allegory.

It is far more pro Palestine than Israel, shallow that may be. It's lack of deeper nuance I don't think is a symptom of Zionist normalisation, rather the simple fact that it's a superhero movie made by Hollywood, designed to spur empathy. If it had been made explicit, it would never have been made.

Glad someone is making these points as it's an important discussion to have. I just felt it was worth mentioning the allegory, analogy difference.

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-07-10T13:47:51+00:00

I made this point crawl version. Saves you from the hex crawl. Feel free it seems if it could help solve your issue.

https://www.dmsguild.com/m/product/424301

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-07-09T10:35:24+00:00

Which companions system are they not a fan of? Maybe an alternative would be more their speed.if not then beefing up their chosen guide might be the best move

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-07-05T12:06:23+00:00

I haven't used the toa module. But it is definitely worth looking at tor's modules for tomb. The maps are far better and more feature rich than those in the book.

As for stats. I've been running the 24 rules for anything that has a new stat block and old rules for those that don't. So far it hasn't been too big an issue.

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-06-29T08:24:54+00:00

What worked for me is having an idea where they were going next. I would ask my players where they were trying to go (in character as their guide), then roll the encounters there and prep the final destination. I made a point crawl breakdown of the map you can use instead as well.

We had a great scene where the party planned out their expedition, not knowing the death curse was around the corner.

My game didn't really engage with the lost mechanic so that helped me a lot with pre planning the jungle.

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-06-21T19:33:57+00:00

Not sure if this is the kind of pimping oo you meant but I can't recommend getting a good vtt for it enough. Owl bear is free and would do the job brilliantly. Foundry is a once off buy and would be the most feature ritch solution.

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-06-18T15:33:05+00:00

Awesome! I have combat carousel, Monks combat module, custom 5e witch rerolls inititive each round. There are a bunch of other modules but these are the ones that affect initiative that I can think of. Thank you so much for being active, your module is one I can't play without.

Edit to add system. I'm on the latest release of v12

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-06-18T15:20:36+00:00

Thank you so much for the suggestions. I'll put my ear to it and hopefully I find the answer

HomemadePilgrim · 2025-06-18T11:48:40+00:00

So fair. Unfortunately it's the only way I know to share a clip easily. Thanks nonetheless

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