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I compiled all the maha signs into one table. those included in the rosary have a box around them, so your players may figure out what some of the signs mean while experimenting with the rosary. It may not be neccessary to solve the Pelagia riddle, but I found it weird not to have them shown on the rosary.

First off, you have an amazing community here, congratulations. It really touches me to see lemmy getting big enough to be of actual help, rendering that other platform unnecessary. Thanks for your input recently.

I was hoping you could help me clarify some other questions about the echo knight so I don't need to create an account on the Dnd Forums.

1. The echo can use the first part of the sentinel feat (says the FAQ on the forums) with it's reaction (reduce enemy movement to 0 with an attack of opportunity) - can it also benefit from the Shield Master (receive no damage on an successful dex-save)
2. can the echo be used for the protection-fighting style (use reaction to impose disadvantage on an attack directed at someone next to you)?
3. Can the ability to see through your echo avatar be used to create an echo at a spot your echo can see (that is still less than 1000' away from the knight)?

I hope that's all of them... Thank you so much in advance & keep on making social media social again :)

I’ve recently jumped into a game of Dragonlance despite the fact that all I know of D&D stems from Solasta & the old Neverwinter Nights games. I came to play an Elf Fighter that I want to subclass to Echo Knight. The GM was so friendly to let me rethink my choice of cantrip, which I humbly seek to be advised on. My current favourite is Booming Blade, which I find mixes well with the ability to move out of the current melee by switching with the echo. It also scales in damage the same way I’d receive extra attacks, so I won’t be missing out on much damage in my view. What would you choose, and why?

Maybe you're here because you're already a fan, maybe you are doing some research wether FbL is right for you. Below are my, totally biased impressions and summary of Key features and why you should play it.
I may edit this initial post depending on the comments below in order to deliver a community-driven overview of this game.

1. The rules. They are both easy to understand and apply ingame and flexible enough to allow for a fine granularity. In a group of GMs we discussed if there was a "best weapon". We could not agree because each has its usecases - not bad for a system with 2 weapon stats and some tags on them.
2. The lore. It's a fantasy classic with a surpising twist to it here and there. Without spoilering too much, halflings are all jolly and merry and friendly but behind closed curtains they hate each other, are alcoholics and beat their children. As a GM, you receive a treasure trove of background, legends, events, but from the perspective of the uncertain narrator, so there's a wealth of room for your interpretation. Not two worlds will be the same and if you are playing on two different tables, you will most likely still be surprised quite often.
3. The campaigns By the time of writing there are three official campaigns available. Broadly speaking, they take well established elements of the lore (the "Bloodmist" that isolated villages for 3 centuries) and lets the players discover their reasons. And of course, save the world and/or carve out a good piece of it for the players themselves)
4. The flexibility & preparation required: Of course, if you're not so much interested in the campaigns, you can play Forbidden Lands as a pure hexcrawl / dungeoncrawl. With little preparation required by the GM. The mechanics for travelling and resource management are excellent, the random encounters and tables to generate adventure sites provide you with enough tools to keep you and your players entertained for month.

Combat is much quicker resolved (and, as stated above, much more streamlined and fluid than pathfinder or DnD). A character has at most 6 Hitpoints (his strength), and losing those points makes him weaker (because they use strength to do melee attacks as well). At the same time, becoming "broken" takes you out of the fight and you receive a critical injury, possibly, but not necessarly, death. Call it - more dangerous, but less deadly.

What do you think? Why do you love it? What's missing in your opinion?

So usually I would post this into the link collection, I just recently discovered more cool features that I like to share. If you are the author of this tool or know who it is: receive my gratitude and respect.

How to have online charactersheets & group overview:

1. go to https://www.forbidden-sheets.com/?lang=en

2. in the addressbar of your browser, notice the id=xxx... bit. This id leads to your unique character! anybody using this link will be able to see & edit your character; That's why you should:

3. backup your character by "Export" - you'll receive an ".fsjson" file that you can "Import" should anything break with your character. I recommend saving regularly.

4. go to https://groups.forbidden-sheets.com/ and enter a name for your crew. Choose wisely, as you won't be able to change it later. It does not have to be unique though.

5. at the bottom, paste the url to your character and click "Attach". repeat until done

6. Voila! you have an overview of your group and a shortcut to your characters. (mouseover a character card, "open full sheet")

7. Add sebedius, a helpful bot to handle inititive & dicerolls, to your discord (https://github.com/Stefouch/sebedius-myz-discord-bot) and you're good to play online.

Here's the place to upvote and discuss your favourite AP and find the next for your watchlist. I haven't watched all of them, so please comment & add what I left out.

i made a weather macro for foundry that takes the tables from BR & BOB, unifies them and makes weather a bit more predictable and dependent on the region & season (and how much fuss you want to have with weather in general)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/wd2r21c41qwu3iz/forbidden-lands-myweather_v0.1.zip/file

Intro:

“MyWeather” is supposed to give you a simple mechanic to generate some reasonable weather to spice up your journeys without taking up too much game time and brainpower. It works for all climate zones and seasons, from the frozen peaks of bitter reach to the scorching deserts that are not even discovered yet.

Weather is structured into temperature, clouds and wind which are all tracked individually. Clouds and Wind range from calm to storm and clear to dark clouds in 4 steps, the temperature from biting cold to scorching hot in 7 steps. You decide, based on region, season and infinite knowledge only a GM can have, what weather you expect, a “clear sky with mild breeze” for minimal negative effects on adventuring, “freezing temperatures with dark clouds and storm” during the dramatic search for the mountain pass in bitter reach, you name it. A table with inspiration will be provided. Expectations may be between two steps, during spring the expected temperature may be between cold and mild etc.

Once the expectations are set, you may roll a d6 for each weather element to see if it deviates from the expectation. Usually you roll once per day, but if you find the weather should change more or less often, feel free to adapt. We suggest you use three differently colored dice for the three elements and roll them together, white for wind, black for clouds and red for temperature. If the die shows a 6, the weather moves one step away from the expected weather, clouds and wind towards “more”, temperature towards colder. On a 1 or 2, the element moves towards the expectation or not at all, when the actual weather is already at expectation. In case the expectation is set between steps, the actual weather element will flip to the other side. In the example above, the actual temperature will alternate between mild and cold.

A table for the actual mechanical effects a weather phenomenon has is also provided. You are now all set to present your players with the added challenges your weather brings to the table

Coming up with good dark secrets is hard sometimes. If that is the case for you, the following alternative might be interesting for you:

During character creation, you will be required to select a virtue and a vice. These should be single-word attributes (refer to the examples below), followed by a brief description of how these qualities are expressed in your character. If your virtue or vice becomes relevant in a scene and leads to detrimental consequences for you or other characters involved, you will be awarded one experience point at the end of the session.

Example Virtues: Honest, Conscientious, Pure, Modest, Serene, Patient, Industrious, Benevolent, Devoted, Compassionate, Optimistic.

Example Vices: Addictive, Arrogant, Greedy, Lustful, Wrathful, Hedonistic, Lazy, Envious, Jealous.

It may prove useful

Time to stock up on those dice. Maybe we get a new print for Melified Mage? prettyplease? https://mailchi.mp/frialigan/free-league-summer-sale-2023-h26g10adoc

Of course, there are some awesome tools out there to help you as a GM. This is an unordered collection, vote for your favourite ones in the replies below:

the infamous yxans klagan:

• https://yxans-klagan.vercel.app/

smoke raven has some really powerful tools collected, I'm especially amazed about this one:

• https://www.smokeraven.com/forbidden-lands-hex-traveller

For the ultimate number-nerds:

• https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/demographics/

other Random generators:

• http://wyrmtales.net/?
• https://perchance.org/fl-session-generator

Onepage dungeon generator:

• https://watabou.itch.io/one-page-dungeon

"place them where you want", they said. But if you want a consistent world, not every placement will make equal sense. Find thoughts and inspiration on where (and why) to put the Raven's purge sites.

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