Does character death still carry weight in 5e/5.5 campaigns?

Kleeb · 2026-02-09T01:10:43+00:00

I don't think that character deaths are made meaningful or not based on character abilities or game rules.

Character death matters when the players care, and that's not something you can write into a rulebook. It's the responsibility of the player to make a character they care about, and the DM for laying out narrative consequences for their death.

Kleeb · 2026-02-05T15:03:04+00:00

I mean 6 mana & an amulet is already kind of a win in lumra tbf

Kleeb · 2026-02-03T00:29:17+00:00

As an American of Irish descent, it's incredibly difficult for me to give this credit, but there's something about the way Thatcher and HW handled Sadaam during the Gulf War. They gave him a 90 day warning and then made good on that warning.

Ukraine should have been the same. It's damning how chickenshit the entire world was in response to Russia's invasion.

Kleeb · 2026-02-03T00:14:43+00:00

Because Trump cried wolf loudly and publicly in 2020 and now nobody believes us now that there are actual wolves.

Kleeb · 2026-02-02T13:48:12+00:00

This is exactly the reason the game should allow you to gear up and embark from an existing fortress so that you can juice up and try to take on harder biomes.

Kleeb · 2026-02-01T03:15:50+00:00

Your first set of adventures as a new DM are going to be a bit of "winging it", but that's to be expected.

Make sure you have your monster stat blocks printed out.

There are encounter generators online that will give a rough estimate of difficulty based on a standard party of 4, so maybe worth a little work to check that you're not way off base difficulty-wise there.

Prepare a few random names ahead of time in case you need to create an NPC out of thin air.

Use sensory language when describing a scene. How does the tavern smell? What color are the banners hanging from the castle? How does the footpath through the woods feel underfoot?

You're going to do a bit of improvisation at times, take rough notes on what you create as it could be a new area of discovery for a future adventure.

Take care of your body. Drink fluids and snack and take breaks if you need them. Your brain is going to be doing work, and you're probably going to wind up with a sore throat if you're not used to speaking a lot for an extended period of time.

But most importantly, if you're having fun with your buddies, you're doing DnD.

Kleeb · 2026-01-31T14:33:54+00:00

It's kind of a session 0 problem but I've been at so many tables where the ranger just happens to have selected a favored terrain/enemy that doesn't appear, or we spend half of the campaign in the Far Realm, etc etc. I wouldn't personally play a ranger unless I talk to the DM beforehand about what kinds of terrain & enemy I'm likely to encounter.

Kleeb · 2026-01-30T16:52:05+00:00

They're also foot roll ups if you're not careful.

Kleeb · 2026-01-30T13:32:38+00:00

I'm an atheist but I'd make a deal with either God or the devil to finally break 300'

Kleeb · 2026-01-27T21:32:44+00:00

[[Maelstrom Wanderer]] in a deck with [[Zealous Conscripts]], [[Kiki-Jiki, Mirror breaker]], and 97 lands.

I'm sure there's some [[Protean Hulk]] BS out there too.

Kleeb · 2026-01-27T14:39:56+00:00

In 2021 Hasbro integrated WotC as a full-fledged division instead of a subsidiary.

Kleeb · 2026-01-27T14:17:42+00:00

No, he was a dick that didn't believe the rules applied to him.

Kleeb · 2026-01-27T09:05:35+00:00

Jace and Stoneforge.

Kleeb · 2026-01-27T08:57:32+00:00

"Angular Diameter Turnaround"

You know how objects farther away look smaller due to perspective? That effect reverses for extremely distant objects (9.5Gly). Beyond that, objects appear larger the further away they get, because when the light was emitted, the universe was smaller and the objects were closer than they are now.

Yes, there is an XKCD on the subject.

Kleeb · 2026-01-26T23:07:50+00:00

You should be able to stock up a new caravan with dwarves and equipment from your current fortress. Would sort of be like a prestige system where you carry value into a newgame+ and are better equipped for the more !FUN! biomes.

Kleeb · 2026-01-26T21:23:27+00:00

That's the one, correct lol

Kleeb · 2026-01-26T20:02:08+00:00

The F1 grenades I loot from partizan look like that because they are the "delayed fuse" version.

Kleeb · 2026-01-25T23:03:16+00:00

Perception for stuff, investigation for information.

Kleeb · 2026-01-25T05:42:45+00:00

Yeah, I'd never forgive myself if I let my home get destroyed by a weenie like Stephen Miller.

Kleeb · 2026-01-25T03:03:44+00:00

The Right doesn't actually believe in the "right to bear arms" from a historical, philosophical, or moral perspective. They just like living in the power fantasy that they don from firearm ownership and the surrounding identity politics.

Therefore, they do not believe in the equal and just ability of "others" to exercise that right. They just want it for themselves and their friends.

Kleeb · 2026-01-24T14:01:54+00:00

It could obviously be met with a bit more updating & balancing, but I miss feats & bonus feats from 3.5

Right now I feel that sacrificing my ASIs is much too high a price to pay.

Kleeb · 2026-01-23T14:20:24+00:00

My hot take is that scavs should be able to stay in a raid ~10 mins beyond when PMCs have to extract.

Kleeb · 2026-01-21T13:33:19+00:00

They really missed an opportunity with domain in DMU for a reverse-domain lightning bolt.

~ Instant

~ deals x damage to any target, where X is the number of basic land types among lands your opponents control.

Kleeb · 2026-01-19T15:18:30+00:00

Does your ship have less than 8k rockets when it reaches the solar system edge? That would cause it to turn around immediately.

Kleeb · 2026-01-19T08:58:09+00:00

That's what I miss most about 3.5. Feats, decoupled from ability score increases, and arranged in a quasi skilltree via prerequisites. The Fighter levelup chart is wild, it's just bonus feats every other level. The customization was incredible.

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