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I stopped using XP and level up characters based on passage of time. I also increased the lethality of combats in my game. Players tend to avoid combat unless they have to do it and have no other way around it. Since there is no meta award to fighting creatures to level up and the...

I'm currently working on 5e stats for Strahd for my campaign. I've designed him to be a 12th level fighter and a 16th necromancer. This fits best in my opinion with his history. Yes he is outrageously formidable, but that's OK for me.

Why is there an assumption that people have forgotten realms product from the past four editions? And why have people hunt down old product for current games? The realms info that is coming out is splattered among multiple books. It's not user friendly and not very welcoming or inviting. I'm...

That's the angle I was pondering. Flat HPs based on con and creature size, increasing weapon damage, and DR from armor. I'm working out the numbers to see how it looks. I like the idea of ogres being terrifying, not to mention giants and dragons.

I know its a bit soon, but I'm curious if anyone's considering running 5th with amor as DR. If so, what are your thoughts about how to do this.

WPN stores do have different levels and they do effect what extra benefits they receive from WOTC. Including the ability to get product early.

Buy from your local WPN store. :-)

I can see cooperation between WOTC and Paizo.

I half expect that WOTC might hand the magazines over to a 3rd party since they are limited in staff. And I would expect it to be Paizo again! WOTC is showing a willingness to work with outside professionals. This would be great if it happens. Print mags again and by Paizo... A guy can dream. :-)

Castle Greyhawk for 5e by Paizo? Whoa! :-)

Yeah, my campaigns don't have easy access to potions unless they are created by the party. Same with resurrection... Its not waiting there to be used. Death is a real concern in my games. Otherwise victory just would seem to be a big deal if the consequences weren't there.

WOTC had a lack luster showing at GAMA trade show this year as well. What energy they had went to Magic the gathering. Being its just about the release of 5E and the 40 year anniversary of D&D... I expected much more. They came across like a second rate company with a ho hum product. Kinda...

I agree exactly with this. I am going to give this a try starting next week when I run the new hardback Rise of the Rune Lords. Ill post my feedback and results from it as I go. And thanks to everyone for sharing so far. It helps a lot.

In regard to many light damaging attacks versus heavy armor, I do believe that would replicate the reasoning for and use of armor. It is supposed to prevent damage, that is the point. Though the assumption that the whole world is dressed in full plate is not what your stating right? Full plate...

Yeah, im fine with accepting that smaller characters will not be melee powerhouse. Though all characters ending up as heavy hitters is something im not worried about. My campaign should be only about 1/3 combat and of that not much will be decked out in armor.

Your are correct Triqui. But these areas i've thought about lately and i'm ok with this. Big heavy things should hurt more, so this is welcome. My game has armor at a much rarer occurance than the norm. At least compared to modules. Small creatures dont do a lot of damage, which is not a...

I would suppose though that a wizard/rogue or cleric/rogue multiclass combo might be advantageous. I would like to see what would happen with that.

As far as natural armor when I am converting a creature I only give it 30% -100% of its natural AC converted to DR totaly depending on the the creature and my rational of how it should work. With most creatures the natural armor would not count against elemental damage except for special...

I considered doing a percentage but decided against it. My reasoning is that armor x protects x worth of damage. this means that some times no damage will be taken from attacks that are from a weak source and that damage from a strong source may still have a lot of damge get through. I am...

Thanks for the feedback! I added ref to def because it was an increasing number based on dodgyness that was relative to class an already included. :) I also doubled the value of shields so they provide +2, +4, and +6 respectively to defense. I also removed str bonus to hit for melee. This helps...