The gg no re-ers talk about why 5e’s default implementation of Inspiration is unsatisfactory, how they’ve experimented with changing it, and a simple hack to improve it.
episode
96 – Mortality is a Big Deal for Me (ggnoRE:CAP Alabamia 5)
An intimate session. John/Evenstar and Tim/Cleophus pick up some hirelings and explore the dragon shrine again.
Henchmen
Jeff Rients made a lovely table/mechanic for acquiring hirelings and henchmen. You can grab the pdf that Daniel made of Jeff’s rules here. It looks a little something like this.
Skerples
Skerples made a fantastic post taking snippets about historical rulers and turning them into random tables. Plus we’re continuing to play this session in the Tomb of the Serpent Kings.
“River Valley Breakdown” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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95 – Mortality is a Big Deal for Me (ggnoRE:PLAY Alabamia 5)
An intimate session. John/Evenstar and Tim/Cleophus pick up some hirelings and explore the dragon shrine again.
Henchmen
Jeff Rients made a lovely table/mechanic for acquiring hirelings and henchmen. You can grab the pdf that Daniel made of Jeff’s rules here. It looks a little something like this.
Skerples
Skerples made a fantastic post taking snippets about historical rulers and turning them into random tables. Plus we’re continuing to play this session in the Tomb of the Serpent Kings.
“River Valley Breakdown” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
94 – Kerfuffle (ggnoRE:CAP Alabamia 4)
Recap, in which Cleophas the ex lake redneck considers an offer from a pirate captain. Evenstar the dragon cultist gets her hands dirty with violent schismatics.
“River Valley Breakdown” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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93 – Kerfuffle (ggnoRE:PLAY Alabamia 4)
Cleophas the ex lake redneck considers an offer from a pirate captain. Evenstar the dragon cultist gets her hands dirty with violent schismatics.
“River Valley Breakdown” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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92 – S N E K B O I B O S S F I G H T (ggnoRE:CAP Alabamia 3)
Recapping an actual bossfight with special mechanics you can steal and an abortive PC kingship.
We reference skeleton jellies, which I think Arnold K made up.
When Daniel talks about Apocalypse World style task resolution, here’s how he does it in 5e:
- DC 20: all good
- DC 12: successful generally, but with some complication
- Less: bad
Daniel doesn’t use this unless there’s some way to make the 12-19 result interesting; otherwise, he defaults to DC 15 for a binary success target.
Daniel’s new ruling based on Tim’s shenanigans: if an item’s container is not explicitly marked on your sheet, Daniel assumes it’s stored in the worst place possible when it matters most.
91 – S N E K B O I B O S S F I G H T (ggnoRE:PLAY Alabamia 3)
We do an actual bossfight with special mechanics you can steal, which Daniel in turn stole from Dark Souls. Then they meet some dubious fungus people, and one PC is soon to be king.
Table images after the jump. You can see marching order and the yellow mini-rubber bands we use to indicate characters that have torches.
90 – Tim is the Door; I am the Tomb (ggnoRE:CAP Alabamia 2)
We recap what happened last time in the snek mans shrine.
“River Valley Breakdown” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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89 – Tim is the Door; I am the Tomb (ggnoRE:PLAY Alabamia 2)
A small party this time explores the ruined dragon shrine to the northeast of Vicksburg. John, Tim, and Wes explore the second level and do some proper dungeon crawling.
OblivionKeg is the rules reference web app we’ve been using in game.
“River Valley Breakdown” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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88 – Big Hawgz (ggnoRE:CAP Alabamia 1)
We recap what happened in the first Alabamia episode.
“River Valley Breakdown” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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