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The Frozen Castle turned out to be a high point in our play through with the kids. They allied with Allac and convinced him and the yetis to help free the castle. From there out, they had a sweet ride and a yeti crew.

During SKT, I got my players feeling pretty awful about what they did to the ignorant hill giants in the Goldenfields. There were two of them together toward the end, ignorant and terrified. The party went all murder hobo on one of them, then this awkward silence descended over the table as I...

** SKT spoilers ** Hi all - I'm running SKT and my players have gone off script in chapter 3, having been routed from Waterdeep due to their poor behavior. They're currently fleeing up the High Road, and will eventually come to the Thornhold. I've reviewed the information in SKT and SCAG, and...

So much to think about - thanks everyone for your suggestions! The wheels are really turning. In many cases, it sounds like choosing the the right, somewhat tougher monster, will be a good bet. I'm also thinking about ways to let things come in waves, and to work in some story line in the...

Food for thought! Within reason I can probably soft pedal some moderately more difficult monsters, especially if the players haven't seen them before to know what they could do "full throttle", but I should think carefully about which high CR monsters I choose.

Yeah I'd pretty much resigned myself to some significant rework. Was thinking of tossing in a couple Tanarukks with the orcs near the door, and swapping the bridge guards for some number of Orc Red Fang of Shargaas riding giant bats (that seems like it would be pretty epic as they try to...

It's a weird hybrid of one shot and campaign because we rarely get to play face to face. Leaning toward fewer, more challenging monsters to make things exciting and quicker.

I hear you on 8 being powerful and maybe not really possible. Monsters that will challenge them have a decent chance of wiping them out. I guess that'll be old school if it happens! Maybe I'll make it less about combat and layer in some puzzles or a developing mystery.

The "plan with great care" attacks are my favorite. They're usually overly complicated plans that are fun to concoct and go horribly awry almost immediately. Maybe I'll include especially nasty foes that they can learn about with some notice to get them suitably worried and give them some time...

Enforcing a time limit sounds like a great idea, especially considering scotch will probably be involved. How about *which* creatures - scale up the CR of a similar number of monsters compared to the original, or scale out the number of them?

** minor spoilers for LMoP ** Hi everyone. In a couple months, I will get to DM face to face for a rather large group of 8 players. I've been gaming with some of them as far back as AD&D and the early 80's. Others probably play D&D only this one time each year, and have played a handful of...

Ahh, that makes sense! Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

These are super cool - thanks for creating them. Any chance of a hand lettered version with the skills grouped by ability score? I love the look of the lettering, but my brain hurts trying to remember where all the skills relate. Either way, thanks! Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

I run a game with my sons and four of their friends. It was already mentioned, but I try to embrace as much of the silliness as possible, provided it's generally to do with the game. It doesn't always make for the game I want, but it's the one they want, so that's cool. I've also got one or two...