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Technically, full cover exists - its possible in BG3 for a target to be impossible to target because of intervening objects/people.

I agree in general - but I do have a specific challenge in mind for an upcoming session that is motivating me to put this down on paper.

Here's some of my ideas. Taking the three key actions that I mentioned earlier: parkouring up a wall in a narrow alley, wall running, and running up a wall to catch a ledge. The core idea is that, like jumping, parkouring is keyed to 10+dexterity or acrobatics bonus. Parkouring up a wall in an...

That pretty much my plan. I also agree with this - it solved a lot of my players problems when I realized climbing mostly didn't require rolls unless its particularly dangerous. This is true, but thieves need to be able to climb walls! This is a really good way to look at it - I am...

Has anyone created any guidelines for Parkour in 5e? I've got a bunch of roguish players (not all actual rogues) with high dexteritys, low strengths, and a fear of walls, climbing, etc :) I've been kind of winging it to this point but am thinking of trying to come up with a set of guidelines to...

One bit of possible inspiration: the recruitment scene from "The Untouchables" where Kevin Costner and Sean Connery are trying to find honest cops in Chicago to add to their team. "that's the future Chief of Police..."

I don't want the Plane of Fire to be quite that deadly; portions may be, but overall I want it to be difficult and challenging but survivable for mid-level PC's. I've also got a variant Planar set up going: The elemental planes are located inside the (otherwise) hollow Earth. The inside of the...

The next big arc of my campaign (5E, players are 6th level) is likely to involve the Plane of Fire and the City of Brass, and I'm curious what other people have done with those. My plan is to make the Plane of Fire a vast desert wasteland with Egyptian motifs; sometimes places swallowed up by...

Good replies! And thanks for chiming in, Celebrim - you're one of the people here who I know has put a lot of thought into this topic so your input is appreciated. I'm leaning away from the "time flows differently" thing because, while its absolutely thematically appropriate, makes it tough to...

The Fey are a pretty big part of my campaign world (homebrewed 5e D&D), and a couple of things have occurred to me recently that I don't have great explanations for... Namely some issues regarding biology and society. For the most part here I'm talking about the classic Fey - seelie and...

I really like this idea, and like the idea of differentiating between major and minor curses. RAW, it certainly seems like you could use the spell to remove the affliction in combat

If I could do some of the encounter building on my PC, or if they had a desktop version, I'd be a very happy camper. I'm not a fan of doing a lot of data input on mobile devices. However, this is the app that I use - and I've gone through almost all the options out there, including building my...

I'd give some initial indications that something is going on - even just a casual mention of say, forest glade, covered in pleasant smelling flowers. That will give the players that "heck, we should have known something was up" realization later on. You might want to take some cues from the...

I've run the gamut when running a game, from pure paper to laptop to tablet. I've been running my current 5e game using a tablet (an older ipad) for seven sessions now. I use Fight Club 5 to organize the sessions and run combats; it has a built in encounter builder and dice rolling capability. I...

Kill your pretties. Always remember that no matter how cool your villains are, they exist to provide challenges to the players, and will inevitably fall.

Do you use any sort of combat tracker tool to help run initiative? I have an initiative tracker on my iPad (and most count rounds too, which is really handy for me as thats something I've struggled with), but if you're going lo-tech, notecards with the PC's names works quite well. I've seen...

Our group has had a challenge remembering to use the inspiration rules. Now that I'm DM'ing I'm trying to keep it front and center of people's minds. I even gave the PC's a magic item that grants Inspiration. It's a mirror with the words "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and gosh-darn it...

Something to consider in the hiding of the doors is the planned usage of the doors themselves - does the Lich or any of his minions need to use them to get in and out of the lair? The Lich might be able to teleport in and out, but some of the doors may need to be in a useful place and be able...

I did a fairly successful Festival setup in my last campaign. It was 12 days, each dedicated to a different god in the major pantheon. I think an important thing to do is to have the events of the competition form the backdrop for campaign related stuff, as well as providing some grist for...

The equivalent woudl need to exist, or else you wouldn't have any bread, or beer, and so on. All you need to do is figure out what people in the middle ages thoguht was happening when they did things that involved chemistry (unwittingly on their part).