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The new ShadowDark system caps out at level 10, the adventure Die Vecne Die goes to level 13 I believe. I was wondering if the math breaks down after level 10 or if I can have my players continue pass and continue to select talents from the list??

Hello everyone, more context for my question, I have been using side initiative with a single d6 no modifiers from the players which is contested by me the DM each round of combat in my 5e games. I am wanting to switch to shadowdark for future games. I would like to continue to use side...

Hello everyone, more context for my question, I have been using side initiative with a single d6 no modifiers from the players which is contested by me the DM each round of combat in my 5e games. I am wanting to switch to shadowdark for future games. I would like to continue to use side...

Hello everyone, more context for my question, I have been using side initiative with a single d6 no modifiers from the players which is contested by me the DM each round of combat in my 5e games. I am wanting to switch to shadowdark for future games. I would like to continue to use side...

After the cataclysm the people believe the gods left Krynn and that meant no more clerics. The mages however still had access to there magic I am not sure if this was explained on why they still had access to it? If someone could explain or point me in the direction of a thread that explained...

Good day fellow DM's a player of mine purchase the boardgame and module and gifted it to me as a thank you for well being the DM. I was very touched by his gift since he knows I am a huge Dragonlance fan. As the title suggested I was wondering if anyone has attempted to incorporate the board...

As the title suggested was thinking on the lines of armor damage absorption with armor having hp of some amount before the adventure needs to go get it repaired. This would apply only to medium and heavy armor to make armor wearing players get a benefit for doing so since thematically they...

As the title suggested I'm looking at this new Shadow Dark game that is on Kickstarter and immediately back it since it is the system I think it is closely to what I want to try as an OSR game that I want to try in the near future. It uses a roll check for spellcasting and no spell slots I find...

Little backstory I am preparing to run a homebrew campaign in Ravenloft and I am using Strahd as the BBEG I have immerse myself in the lore of Ravenloft new and old and have merge a few of them together. Patrina is a dusk elf that wanted to be turned into a vampire by Strahd but before it could...

Just wanted to asking anyone has seen a forum somewhere about secondary variants for the spell in the spell description it list some options and something the DM can offer instead. I was curious what other options would be viable as well ?

Good day everyone as the tittle suggest, I have ran this adventure as a player once and I will be running this as a DM first time, looking over the module plan to add some combat encounters and change the existing one's because I can and because some of my players are hack and slash so I don't...

Good day everyone like to pose 2 questions. The Vampire and the Oni protecting the treasures in White Plume mountain its not stated that there wielding the weapons in combat vs the PC's but was thinking why not ? I know that there quite powerful but would it be to hard for a group of 4 level 9...

Good day everyone looking for how other DM's challenge high level wizard players but not screw them over. So far all I've come up with is having enemy casters that counterspell hes spells when they can but I feel like its cheesy. I've talked to the player about enemy spell casters with...

Ive been using minions for awhile and i can say its a great mechanic for DM's everywhere i first seen this idea on Matt Colville's channel and have been using it ever since. The only thing i'm not sure of is having minions in a fight and using the optional rule of cleave from the DMG page 272 at...

I ran an encounter with Drow priestess and just had her summon the Yochlol and use its dominate person and the player saved afterward everything this demon did seemed lack luster and unflavorful. Ive read a good chunk of the Drizzt books and the drow priestes feared and respected the Yochlol...

Has anyone successfully ran this part I am confused on how this are suppose to work it seems that as they rotated some areas are cut off and from what the explanation is seems like there's no real way to get to the path that leads to the 6th Floor I've looked online but have not seen much in the...

So running out of the abyss wondering what the players are suppose to do with the expeditionary force's they lead back down into the underdark. Ive read that you can have them set up outpost but there are times where it seems like the players will be venturing into place like the purple worm...

Little backstory on why i created this boss monster i am currently running Out of the Abyss campaign and my party is now facing the Ooze onslaught about occur in Blingdenstone. The big bad is the pudding king and i found hes stat block underwhelming and anti climatic. There is a big build up to...

So about halfway through LMoP and have 3 new players who have never played d&d before. One made a dragon born paladin and gave himself darkvison by mistake I did not realize that they dont get that until recently. I know it was an honest mistake on the players part. My question is do I take it...

Hello everyone being DM for less then a year now and have been trying different things with my players one of them was giving a player a stone of ill luck was testing the waters with a curse item unfortunately it's a minor curse and he has not noticed that its curse for those that don't remember...