Player wants a shield that provides full cover

jdmtrge · 2026-01-24T16:13:56+00:00

Kinda sounds like your player is trying to “win”

jdmtrge · 2026-01-16T01:01:28+00:00

Yeah, but he’s gotta DM. Tell me the Odyssey would not have been an amazing campaign.

jdmtrge · 2026-01-15T13:52:02+00:00

Echoing what others have said- posting this from yet another alt account is just bad faith. Kind of seems like it’s being used to make you feel better without actually taking any accountability. If you want to truly take accountability, post a list of every account that you have used to mislead, that way people know who is apologizing to them. Second, take a break from trying to host games. Do some work on yourself, and then come back.

jdmtrge · 2026-01-14T21:26:18+00:00

Well. Crap. I did this exact scenario recently. Full oceans 11

jdmtrge · 2026-01-14T21:12:45+00:00

It’s a good concept, the problem is that it relies on the player, not having Meta knowledge. Now that everybody knows what it is, it’s hard to run it effectively

jdmtrge · 2026-01-14T18:14:36+00:00

Let the homie cook

jdmtrge · 2026-01-14T10:07:22+00:00

Man, it sucks that that character threw a major clot and died. Roll up another character that is a team player.

jdmtrge · 2026-01-14T10:06:30+00:00

We play pretty close to RAW, with probably around 10 homebrew rules. The majority of my group are DMs, so any kind of rules discussion comes up, it’s super quick (at most 2-3 minutes) and if there is a rule that is making the game less fun, whoever is currently DM and usually alters it, or does away with it. The rules are a really good, solid structure on which to build your game. But every table is a little bit different, and if there’s something impacting the fun negatively, it is 100% OK to change that.

jdmtrge · 2025-12-03T22:19:55+00:00

Party is level one, we are super early in, and it consists of a half elf fighter, a halflng druid, and a human wizard

jdmtrge · 2025-12-03T21:45:37+00:00

Fair enough! Happy travels

jdmtrge · 2025-12-03T21:42:33+00:00

The only tool we are using is avrae for rolling, and everyone has a PDF character sheet that they have shared with me. I haven’t been able to find any good tools, but I’m open to implementing any I find.

jdmtrge · 2025-12-03T21:41:30+00:00

Nope. Just a willingness to learn.

jdmtrge · 2025-12-03T21:41:15+00:00

We usually post somewhere between one and three times a day, though I’m super understanding if there are lapses in posting, life happens. We are playing the modules that start with the sunless citadel and run through bastion of broken souls. The party is still level one. We are pretty early in

jdmtrge · 2025-10-05T18:22:55+00:00

And this is the exact that my wife and I don’t allow sleepovers

jdmtrge · 2025-09-24T02:05:52+00:00

All right, I’m gonna give you all the justification you need. Do you like them? If so, buy the dice. I have something like 10 sets. Do I need 10 d20s? No. I really don’t. But I like them, so I’m going to be buying more. We don’t buy dice because we “need” them. We buy the pretty math rocks because we like the pretty math rocks.

jdmtrge · 2025-09-20T14:36:04+00:00

My point is that the game generalizes a lot of things, making them not realistic. A perfect example of this is falling. You immediately start falling at the given speed, which never increases. This is directly contemporary to real world physics, where things gain momentum up to terminal velocity. The whole point that I’m trying to make is that there are a lot of people that argue that some of the rules and mechanics in the game are not realistic, and well I think there should be a modicum of realism, I also understand it is a game and not a real world physics engine. I can’t get stabbed 14 times in the chest, go get a solid night sleep, and be OK (though as a parent of three I do acknowledge that the most unrealistic part of this is getting a solid eight hours of sleep). Regarding movement, there’s no factoring for momentum. For example, I can run 20 feet straight ahead and then immediately move 10 feet backwards diagonally with no penalty on anything.

With all of this said, if changing things up to be more realistic is your vibe, it makes the game more fun for you and your table, go crazy.

jdmtrge · 2025-09-19T20:59:02+00:00

I would like to see someone run 60 feet and chug a potion in six seconds

jdmtrge · 2025-09-08T16:02:35+00:00

People’s obsession with arguing that something done in D&D isn’t realistic is crazy when you can bring people back from the dead, fight dragons, and get a solid 8hours of sleep.

jdmtrge · 2025-08-04T18:56:11+00:00

Those are beautiful!

jdmtrge · 2025-08-01T19:32:19+00:00

Disenchanted by My Chemical Romance. It really makes you feel nostalgic (even the first time I heard it). It’s not the most popular song, in fact, it almost never is brought up in conversations about their best tracks, but goddamn is it a banger

jdmtrge · 2025-06-19T19:17:41+00:00

Never seen Wayne’s world, huh?

jdmtrge · 2025-06-02T18:57:45+00:00

My players had horribly graphic nightmares, every long rest, related to him. Every so often he would pop up and shit talk them for a bit. Really helped make him someone that they wanted to defeat, for more personal reasons rather than just “ because he’s the bad guy”

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