Recent content by TheHand

Really enjoyed your play-thru! Even having beaten it multiple times myself (and having run a few live versions) I still learned a few new things! Also interesting how you multi classed most of your party, typically I only had 1 or 2 multi classed characters, but I see how they worked very nicely...

I was pretty young when I played this the first time through, so I didn’t catch that the fake Tyranthraxus was a fake. I ran around really confused afterward that he was not only such a pushover but that no one seemed to care he was dead. (Eventually I figured it out!!)

I still like to follow this game even though it didn’t click for my table. Weirdly we were all big 4e fans but 13th Age didn’t quite scratch the itch. I think the 2 biggest missed for us was the scaling damage dice and the fighter’s “roll an attack and then see what ability you get” vs a more...

The graveyard is one of the most atmospheric and thrilling parts of Pool of Radiance and has always stood out to me as a highlight of the adventure. However, when I recently adapted the adventure for live play (when I ran a Pool-of-Radiance & Curse of the Azure Bonds mega campaign), it struck...

We use “Bloodied” and we ported over the Daze condition. I’ve also enhanced 5e monsters with special abilities from some of their 4e counterparts when I’m looking to spice up an encounter. In one of our campaigns, where our players missed the Encounter, Daily powers of martial classes, we even...

• I have a 12+ year Planescape campaign currently running in 5e that’s my “forever DM” game. • I’m also playing in another 5e game that’s adapted the Goodman Games take on Expedition to Barrier Peaks. • in the pipe, I’m using a hacked and modded version of Sentinel Comics to run a future...

Not to interrupt the spine tingling terror of the Graveyard, but I have to say, in all the play-thrus I’ve done I never knew you could actually clear Podol Plaza!

Interesting results. I’m a forever GM so when I do get a chance to play a character I’m usually drawing from a bank of character ideas I have stored up that have more to do with personality and presentation than class. I don’t really feel drawn to monks at all, which was my highest result here...

I don’t like randomness involved in character creation unless it’s a one-shot or a more silly type of game. I will use some random elements in the games I run, beyond just the normal dice mechanics, such as random encounters and randomized treasures, but the random lists are ones I curated ahead...

Agreed, even with that being part of the mission statement I felt like there were more questions aimed at “do you want to run a business??!” than the hobby itself.

Voted 1. I have a nice thing going now at my table with a hybrid of A5E and vanilla 5e, and since I supported the ToV kickstarter I’ll probably have some more options to mine from there. I’m vaguely interested in what they did with the monk and druid, but not enough to convince me to buy the new...

Congratulations on the successful Kickstarter! Downloaded my copy and I’m really enjoying this book so far!

The most recent time I ran it, I did it as a mega campaign leading directly into Azure Bonds, so I sprinkled some Azure Bonds foreshadowing throughout Pool, and tied certain NPCs from the first module into the second so that the Curse and tattoos felt much more personal by the time my PCs got...

It’s probably more accurate to say that I took Ruins as my framework but built in top of it all the missing details from Pool of Radiance that I liked… leaving me with kind of a “greatest hits” (IMO) of the 2 works.