u/Apprehensive-Neat-68

• Mausritter: The Estate Deadline - Feburary 2022
  • Actual release - June 2022
• Land of Eem - Q3 2023
  • Actual release - November 2024
• Our Golden Age - September 2025
  • still hasn't released
  • expanded creative scope as deadline was approaching
• Old School Essentials Demonic Grimoire - Late July, Early August for PDFs, January for Physical
  • still nothing
  • sent to the printers allegedly, so may actually meet print deadline
• Mausritter: Junk City - January 2027
  • Still in editing as of two months ago

Its getting harder and harder to put money into these backerkit projects when the business side of these creators seems to be a joke.

Third person has a ton of support, but theres not much for First Person in the big '26. I was following a guide that recommended CGO for first person oriented playthroughs, but said it was jank and incompatible with a lot of stuff now and will never be updated. However, it also said you can cobble together enough of its features now with smaller mods to make it not worth installing overall.

Which leads me to here, so what do you guys think?

Does anyone have any tips for distinguishing forested area vs forested area when encounters aren't encountering? I know it serves an important role in terms of resource management, but I gave one of my players whiplash when we traveled through 4 hexes and skipped to night without much fan fair (we use 3 mile hexes)

We're kind of stuck in a "rommating" phase in our relationship, and I know why. We need some intimacy in our relationship that is spontaneous and not bland like flowers etc. I want to plan some dates, but from day to day it hard to tell how overwhelming something is. Has anyone on this sub ever been in this situation and dug your way out of it?

Me and my partner often throw parties where there is a competitive element with challenges or hilarious feats to entertain each other. Is there any system that allows for this for their characters benefit? Especially with its own random challenges and guidelines for implementing custom ones?

I'm having a lot of difficulty understanding how this became a "thing" in the year 1999. CRPGs were in their toddler-dom in that era as far as I'm aware. Further, how did 3.5 have any crossover between the very small CRPG community and the already long-established war-gaming and TTRPG players? Wouldn't the latter see the jank of combining half assed wargaming principals with a super-heroic character building game to be a huge chore to both play and run?

Can someone around during that era explain? What made people go from ADnD to 3.5?

They did it with the Finals, now they've done it with Arc. Why would you get a game that they will once again claim will get updates, but will just be tossed aside in 6 months for a shiny new development cycle?

This will be the second time know the players purposefully start a massive forest fire in the game to beat an encounter, and while effective, I don't know a good way to play it out in the overarching metanarrative of the hexcrawl space. Has anyone got any experience or a DMs resource for extreme natural disasters?

1. Into the Mists
2. Werewolf Den
3. Argynvostholt
4. Krezk
5. The Village of Barovia (just put everything on the outskirts of Vallaki)
6. Yester Hill

This leaves you with a Starting village in the form of Vallaki, witches who serve strahd, the amber temple (by Tsolenka Pass), Van Richten's stuff, the Wizard of Wines, and finally the castle. You can place the magic items in the remaining places outside of vallaki and get the adventure done in a year if played bi-weekly.

The cut chapters are trying to do too much at once, and are much better served visiting the themes of them in a broader Mists of Ravenloft campaign. None of them add anything to the mythos of the main antagonist other than oppressive vibes.

"He was bullied"

"The big white kids were scary"

"Its technically legal to carry a knife, he only carried it to school to protect himself!"

"He had no one to talk to about it!"

"They blatantly disrespected him"

"If he was the same as the popular kids he would have gotten away with it"

Nice motives, still murder. At the end of the day, I think his supporters know its murder, they're just glad it was a white kid, because his supporters are all racist.

I've been told that the best way to make magic items is to make them incredibly specific and let your players figure out how to use them. I like this approach, but is there anywhere where I can get a guide on how to make more of the "standard" magic items? For instance, a guide where I can get a sense for the role a Wand is supposed to fill versus a Staff? Or the role of magic armor or weapons beyond giving a mechanical +1 or talking?

I'm an Administration of Criminal Justice student with no experience in this field, but I researched and interviewed for the position really well. I have a high interest in becoming a paralegal in the future, but I don't start the certification process for that until next year. I want something to work on in my free time so that my transition into this position goes more smoothly for my new employer. They have explained that many in this position also had no legal experience before joining, and have worked there for many years, but I want to go above and beyond for this.

Im in Arizona, so im definitely using 190 proof Everclear. I haven't made it in 12 years and realize that the usual is Hawiian Punch and Citrus, but we're also making Summer Brew at this party, so we have the Citrus covered.

Theres so much more clues you can leave in a dungeon when you factor in thermal imaging versus basically what amounts to "night vision goggles." A great example is in Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh when the players enter the basement. The pirates hiding down there have their cooking spit in a fireplace that is up against the wall where the secret door to the meat of the dungeon is hidden behind. This causes the party, with a drow in tail, to walk down the stairs and immediately know that theres is, or was, something hot behind the wall. This made them all search the wall and almost immediately move on to the next section.

My players remarked on just how god damn cool this is, especially when looking into a dark room and hearing undead, but not seeing them and NOPEing the fuck out of there.

I've been great at finding time to move things about the dungeon with things that are very close to the player, but a really hard time doing so on a "broader environment" scale with factions and motivations etc etc. I don't know how to make the world outside the dungeon move or when I get the time to prep such a thing. How have any of you handled it in the past?