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This depends heavily on how you are running the game. For a sandbox I just had each location in its own folder on my computer, with a map or the original adventure I used for that location there, ...
I recommend Joplin Joplin is a note-taking program that allows you to sort notes into notebooks (which you can nest), individual notes, and to-do lists, letting you can organize your notes like th...
Brancalonia, built on top of D&D 5E, adds rules for non-lethal brawls. The rules say that you can't use class abilities like extra attacks, but passive class abilities like Unarmored Defense d...
For my Call of Cthulhu 7e game, I've used dream sequences for setting the tone, imparting subtle clues for the plot, and character development. They've convenient for dialing up the horror aspects ...
Ignoring the extreme success case for now, and supposing the skill gives a probability p of success, then the probabilities of succeeding on the skill roll and then failing the learning roll (that ...
The peak is about 55 It looks like, based on this Anydice calculation that peak skill increase is about 55. I haven't done an analytical calculation of the probabilities, but my guess is that the...
As you use skills in Call of Cthulhu 7e, any successes get marked on your character sheet, and can be used to make skill advancement checks when requested by the Keeper. Any extreme successes are a...
We wound up using a custom-built chatbot that someone purpose-built for the game. The bot is an "emergency stop button". Any player can, at any time, anonymously press a "STOP" button on a third-p...
I'm planning on running a horror game of Call of Cthulhu 7e soon, over a text format. I'm familiar with the concept of safety tools in RPGs, which include ways for a person at the table to indicat...
Contrary to my understanding at first, it looks like this should actually be possible. On a closer investigation of the Quick Start Rules, one of the examples brought has a player adjusting the Do...
I'm basing my character creation off of this CthulhuWiki page, which says this about Language(own): A character’s Mother Tongue. Choose the language best known to your investigator, such as Engl...
When are Size rolls used in Call of Cthulhu 7e? I've given my character a size of 80 (using the character generation guidelines on cthulhuwiki. I did so as I wanted to play a tall and fat chara...
Contingency requires that the spell being triggered has you as the target. Vampiric touch does not seem to have your self as a valid target, but if it did, then you would take 3d6 necrotic damage a...
In a Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition game, I am playing a Wizard and considering the interaction between the contingency[1] and vampiric touch[2] spells. My goal is to explore the possibility of...
When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorr...
After taking the time for a careful reading of the full ruleset, my impression is that it's intended to represent tasks where there are significant negative consequences for failure. In other words...
Monsters! Monsters! is a less known game by Ken St. Andre, the designers of Tunnels and trolls. From what I understand one plays monsters there, rather than adventurers. Wikipedia claims the rules...
Not sure how to answer this beyond saying I ran a V:tM campaign for six years after it came out, and the rules worked out fine for me. I wasn't super strict, perhaps, but the basic dice mechanic w...
In the RPG "A Familiar Problem" published by Darrington Press (with the basic rules available as a PDF), the rules state: When you fail a dangerous task, mark 1 Stress. When you roll a die to re...
It's ambiguous, which means it's up to the DM. Both replacement effects occur "When you cast a spell" with some certain condition. However, when you cast a spell that (requires you to make an att...
I don't see why you wouldn't be able to cast at 60 feet: the way I see it, you use one sorcery point to to modify the spell to have a range of 30 feet, and then you are casting this modified spell,...
For my sorcerer character, I chose the "Distant Spell" metamagic option, which allows me to spend sorcery points to extend the range of my spells: Distant Spell When you Cast a Spell that has a...
Simply put, the answer is the 403 page PDF. All of it. In order to list everything you can use under that document I would have to list the entire document. So here is a link to that document: S...
Wizards of the Coast recently announced via D&D Beyond that they are releasing the "SRD 5.1" under a Creative Commons license. Within the announcement itself, they linked to a 403-page PDF that...
The procedure Ask for what everyone is doing. (Action declarations.) After everyone has declared and thereby initiated their actions, that is, their characters have committed and are starting t...
