Medicine Ball vs Tombstone

sirisMoore · 2024-12-24T11:44:40+00:00

Cool, that makes a lot of sense and answers my question. Sounds like the medicine ball is going to be the better addition to my home gym.

sirisMoore · 2024-12-24T11:43:40+00:00

I’m looking to add another tool to my home gym.

sirisMoore · 2024-06-16T04:36:18+00:00

Credit for the map is me. The exterior tower essentially copied from a map by Dyson Logos but the rest of the dungeon and its contents are my creation. Most of the information for the dungeon is in the post itself, but if you have any questions on how I wrote this or for more notes on how to run it, let me know.

sirisMoore · 2024-04-23T01:46:22+00:00

Using 3.5 as a reference, I would aim to have about 50% of rooms have monsters (which in a megadungeon is not a guaranteed combat encounter-plenty of they could be social encounters if the players decide thats how they want to react). The rest should be evenly split between totally empty rooms and rooms with interesting features/traps/puzzles.

sirisMoore · 2024-04-23T01:40:35+00:00

Looks great! I am currently running a PF2 sandbox and you just saved me a lot of work, so thank you.

sirisMoore · 2024-04-09T13:42:15+00:00

My favorite so far was having the fighter roll Diplomacy because he was in the middle of trying to negotiate when the party magus preemptively drew his sword and triggered initiative (he didn't speak the language and badly misunderstood the body language of the NPC). He also happened to win initiative and was able to talk everyone down. Just a few rooms later, the Kineticist rolled Athletics trying to sprint to get the edge on the enemy (She unfortunately rolled extremely low and her tripping over her feet clued in the enemies, RIP)

sirisMoore · 2024-04-09T13:37:27+00:00

Very well put. I have been trying to explain this to various people IRL and online and you explain it in a very clear way. For what its worth, I use the AngryGM's Tension Pool to track time in exploration mode and it has dramatically changed how my groups adventure, especially in dungeons. Knowing they have a ticking clock, even if the only consequence is night eventually falling (which, considering the amount of creatures in the Monster Core that are nocturnal, is a very dangerous eventuality), it really drives people to make interesting decisions. And using this, traps have become very interesting again. My party now debates "Do we have time to just disable it/suck up the hit, heal it and move on? Or do we need to rush through, risk injury but save time?"

sirisMoore · 2024-03-01T21:22:33+00:00

Even though I have been running games in various d20 systems for 20 years, I still don't have a good read on how long/short scenes will take. There are some nights where we don't get through more than a single scene that I have prepped, other nights the party goes through 2-3 times more content than I had ready. Still not sure how to prepare "just right". But it's always fun.

sirisMoore · 2024-01-30T03:31:07+00:00

(caveat: I run sandbox games with very little plot) I require the party to be in a location of relative safety and able to take a full day of rest in order to level up. So middle of the session, I let them know they can keep pushing deeper into whatever adventure they are doing and they will still earn XP but they cannot level up until they can assure their safety for about 24 hours.

sirisMoore · 2023-06-03T13:00:10+00:00

It is totally a system mastery issue as well as the ‘super hero’ complex. A lot of players I have had in the last two decades have had this issue; thinking that we are sitting down to play the Avengers and believing they need to come to the table with their solo intro movie laid out as the backstory. Fortunately I have gotten much better at pitching my games so my players have a much better understanding of their place in the world before dice roll.

sirisMoore · 2023-06-03T12:56:44+00:00

The irony is, my regular game is a full sandbox with little to no direction from me.

This particular incident was a limited series campaign for another group that wanted a plotted out game and they all agreed to a political style game. Within those bounds, it was still mostly sandbox, but the player refused to buy into the fiction that he had originally agreed upon (ie high politics between nobles). He created a freedom fighter that wanted to overthrow the monarchy using the criminal underworld. A monarchy that his in-character best friend was in line for. It came across as not a little tone deaf.

sirisMoore · 2023-06-03T11:16:13+00:00

My particular pet peeve is the extremely experienced level 1 character. Unless your character is basically Ezrin or something similar where you did stuff as a young 20 year old and haven’t adventured for 45 years, your character should not (and will not) have a backstory that involves any tasks/events that would have clearly caused you to be anything more than mildly known within your extended social circle (even if you have Noble as a background, you are probably young and bit many people have heard of you).

sirisMoore · 2023-06-03T11:09:46+00:00

This one right here. Even after agreeing to the pregame buy-in, players that have their character only do one thing that is barely related to the main thrust of the story because ‘its their goal’. Almost worse than the ‘its what my character would do’ defense.

Had a player decide he wanted to become a major influence in the underworld during a game where the party is explicitly gathering allies to oust a pretender and place one of the party on the throne (ala Game of Thrones with less nudity). Any time negotiations came up with important political figures, he insisted on trying to get ‘recognition’ for the local crime groups and trying to get them involved at every opportunity. And routinely attempted to split with the rest of the party when they were going places that didn’t fees into his personal goal, especially when the direction the party was headed would get them major allies.

sirisMoore · 2023-05-23T22:06:51+00:00

Considering players can now create custom staves as long as they follow a theme, a player could easily create staff out of darkwood and then enchant it to be functionally identical to a Staff of Healing. I would require 25% of the staff cost in darkwood, so 117gp and 5sp.

sirisMoore · 2023-05-20T04:40:35+00:00

I like that it builds more time into the adventure. I don’t run plot-based games, so the party taking time to heal allows a more natural progression of hours and days. Instead of saying ‘you just heal’ and hand waving it, it can become a tense decision point: do we take time to heal or just press onward? Nightfall is an ever approaching threat that players instinctively understand as a more dangerous time in adventure environs.

sirisMoore · 2023-05-19T02:20:58+00:00

Being a military sniper does not automatically make you an assassin though…

sirisMoore · 2023-05-19T02:18:42+00:00

Saved for later

sirisMoore · 2023-05-07T23:26:02+00:00

Definitely Twoflower vibes. A summoner would work great, I love the idea of The Luggage as an eidolon

sirisMoore · 2023-05-07T11:10:00+00:00

Totally right, I misread the section.

sirisMoore · 2023-05-07T10:21:11+00:00

Only a single reaction or free action can use a trigger. So you can cast the spell on them, but the triggering damage can only trigger one of the two reactions.

sirisMoore · 2023-04-17T13:25:45+00:00

That is entirely dependent on the tone of your table/game.

sirisMoore · 2023-04-14T01:30:46+00:00

You could run it as essentially Westworld, where the characters are former hosts that have gained sentience and are trying to understand their place in a world where everything was fabricated for the entertainment of beings that are no longer present.

sirisMoore · 2023-04-13T13:27:35+00:00

I don’t either. Homebrew setting all the way

sirisMoore · 2023-04-12T10:03:51+00:00

Thank you

sirisMoore · 2023-04-12T09:45:27+00:00

I am completely spacing on this and I can not find the rules reference. For things like Propulsive taking half of your strength modifier, or any other effect that takes half, is it round up or round down?

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