I have continued my D&D 2024 campaigns over the past few months. In general, the monsters and new character options work. However, I remain extremely frustrated with the state of the rules. Especially the rules for hiding. The hiding rules are badly written. They make many assumptions about how they work, which aren’t always the assumptions players may have. And they also contain several shifts … Continue reading Revised Hiding Rules for 2024
My level 16 Greyhawk campaign, now in its third year (and 64th session) saw the characters back in their home town of Brusington after an extended foray against stone giants serving Incabulos, the plague deity. It had been tough and punishing. They wanted some time off, and so I gave them a few months of downtime to do with as they wanted. We spent an … Continue reading Greyhawk Campaign update – MM2025!
There’s an interesting statement in the 2024 Dungeon Master’s Guide. “The Game is Not An Economy”. It goes on: “The rules of the game aren’t intended to model a realistic economy, and players who look for loopholes that let them generate infinite wealth using combinations of spells are exploiting the rules.” As I was considering this statement, and the fact that D&D 5E has been … Continue reading The Reward Economy
I’ve been running Empire of the Ghouls for the past few months, and one thing it has a lot of is wilderness travel. Like, a lot. “Road Trip: The Adventure.” And this brings me back to how difficult it is to run engaging wilderness travel in Dungeons & Dragons. This is a problem that goes back to the early days of the game. In The … Continue reading Wilderness Travel Redux
We’ve been using the new rules for about three weeks now, ever since the beginning of my Empire of the Ghouls campaign. The physical rulebooks still haven’t arrived in Australia, so I’ve been looking up rules in various compendiums (Roll20, Beyond20) as they become relevant. Which means that I certainly haven’t read them all yet! But there are things that come up in play, and … Continue reading Things that surprised me in D&D 2024
