Not-So Dying Words Occasionally, after slaughtering their way through a group of enemies, my players will have an attack of conscience and try to stabilize a few of their victims. Typically after fighting humanoids such as bandits who might be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Price of Healing Someone needs to be the healer. And when no one else wants the role, the GM might have to take measures to ensure a balanced party! Personally, I just let the players pick their classes and work […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Eating Right Playing some Fallout 4 of late, because it finally dropped in price to a number I could justify. I’m cheap. Like its predecessor and so many other video games, you heal by eating food. Somehow, chowing down on a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Extra Iron in the System As a Dungeon Master I tend to describe hit point loss as injuries rather than near misses or parries. In a recent D&D session, a mook NPC got dropped by an arrow. Full health to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Health & Hitpoints Let’s start by paraphrasing Winston Churchill: hitpoints are the worst possible system for tracking health except all others that have been tried. Hitpoints are terrible for verisimilitude and an awful reflection of reality. They’re also not particularly […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
