Posts by dsr
This is a great application for a wiki! Any wiki will do, but I especially recommend one in which you can offer logins for your players so that you can classify information for yourself, for the p...
Everything that can happen in a story or in real life can happen in a game. Is life mostly fighting? No. Are the exciting things in life mostly fighting? I hope not. There is a village below a...
In this particular case, the player needs Electrical Repair. Mechanical Repair will let them make the antenna mechanically sound, but not test continuity. If a player has Mech Repair but not Elec R...
A "mystery cult" is an anthropological term for a religion which keeps some items of faith (and usually practice) secret, known only to those who are selectively initiated into the religion. The te...
Yes, you can allow a PC to take and use the frosty orb. In order to use it, they will have to destroy their own eye for power. You should immediately consider the effect on their psyche of both co...
In 5e, every wizard can copy any wizard-class spell into a new spellbook at a minimal cost in time, but preparing a spell is a much more involved activity, described in Xanathar's Guide to Everythi...
If the GM won't tell you, either the GM does not know or the GM does not want to tell you. Inexperienced GMs might not know. Experienced GMs should know. Check into their background. All the rest...
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...
