Hit the Books - GM Log

On different forums and other podcasts, I’ve often heard that the medicine check is the most useless skill of all, and it is often shunned by players. I had never realized it was so and it came as a big surprise. One of the reasons I believe people think the medicine skill is useless is because they do not see how it can be used in-game. The Player’s Handbook is not very inspiring, telling us that a successful check can stabilize a dying creature and diagnose an illness. Xanathar’s Guide to Everything’s added a couple of ideas for checks but the skill remained a bit bland, in my opinion, so I get the unpopularity.

GM LogMyriam RondeauSeptember 14, 2022medicine, medicine check, skills, barovia, Strahd, UnCR, Uncreated, Dungeons & Dragons, Mechanics, vodyanoy, folktale, Handout, merch

A World of Difference - GM Log

Captain Alyosha refers to a set of cards called Tarokka, saying that he “was told to be kind and to accept passengers today.” The group does not press him much further but let me expand a little more. A tarokka deck of cards functions, and is very similar to, our tarot card reading deck but uses fifty-four cards instead of the usual seventy-eight. Decks are used to perform cartomancy and is a form of divination that is jealously protected by the Vistani who perform it.

GM LogMyriam RondeauSeptember 1, 2022Lamordia, DnD, D&D, Dungeons & Dragons, Calendar, Setting, HandoutComment