Tagged "5e"

Let us suppose for a moment that I'm running two NPC in a given 5E game. One is lying and the other being honest. The players suspect both of lying so they decide to roll an Insight check which could either be rolled in the open by the players or rolled in secret by the DM. Two characters are making this Insight check where one is naturally trusting and the other naturally suspicious. The matrix of results for such a roll would like like this:

I've been reflecting a lot about what I'd like to do next in gaming. As much as I wish it were otherwise I still struggle a bit with playing 5E vs going OSR. In part I still really want to like 5E despite finding it entirely tedious to run. But more than that I'm afraid I'm being influenced by the specter of nostalgia. I'm afraid I'll run an AD&D game, that it will not live up to my memory and in the end I'll be as discouraged with that as I am with 5E.

Back in July of this year I wrote about why I plan to go OSR. At that time I'd been running a 5E game that just recently concluded.

I was watching an interview regarding the release of “Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse” in which Todd Kenreck and Jeremy Crawford were discussing why they made the monsters tougher in the upcoming release. According to WOTC‘s research it would seem that the problem with the CR system, in part at least, is the DM not playing the monsters in the most optimal way. I disagree.

I’ve been running Adventure’s League at my FLGS since the “Rage of Demons” story line. Some of my favorite parts of “Rage of Demons,” “Curse of Strahd” and “Storm King’s Thunder” have been the sandbox portions. You see I love running open world games. I’d like to encourage you to love them too.