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.
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97 – Mike Mearls, Delete Your Account (ggnoRE:CAP Alabamia 6)
No actual play this week because Daniel thought the recording was garbage. Instead, just a recap. Alternate titles: Make Basilisks Great Again; A Game of Fetuses. The crew heads into the ruined dragon shrine again, fights 5e’s nerfed version of the basilisk, meets another living snekman, and a PC dies while his player is asleep.
“River Valley Breakdown” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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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)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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/
More T1 Annotations
Here are a couple more annotations Daniel made for running T1: The Village of Hommlet.
Moathouse exterior, with Gygax’s flavor text
The Church of St Cuthbert, with routines and proverbs
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)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Deep Carbon Observatory Annotations
Per the request of Erin in the comments, here are some examples of the kind of the marginal minimaps and annotations I was making in my prep to run Deep Carbon Observatory.
Also, you should use Claytonian’s version of the dungeon map, which I unfortunately didn’t have access to at the time: http://killitwithfirerpg.blogspot.com/2017/07/deep-carbon-observatory-map-fan-map.html.
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
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Annotated Maps for T1: The Village of Hommlet
As promised so long ago, here are the annotated maps Daniel used to run T1.
The yellow cones on the moathouse map indicate the areas in which the party may be detected by lookouts inside the moathouse.
I converted AC to ascending, but the other stats are pretty much by the book.
Click the images for links to pdfs of the same.
Moathouse
Dungeon
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.
