Hi all.
So here's the situation:
I'm a veteran RPG player (been playing for more than 30 years now) but I've been acting as a Game Master only recently, also discovering D&D 5th ed in the same time.
To sum up, most of my experience comes from playing Warhammer RPG and Call of Cthulhu, and to put things simply I'm struggling to balance encounters when the players have a lot of HP and powerful abilities.
The thing is I've been convinced to become DM for my group because the guys heard of the Tyranny of Dragon campaign and wanted to play it. Since we're French and I'm the only one comfortable with reading English, I agreed to give it a try (also the system seemed quite cool and caught my attention).
Only, I found the campaign hard to play the way it's written (not trying to start a debate here), so I decided to go the way some advise: use the books as sourcebooks and the result is I've been rewriting the story a bit.
So far it's been working well enough and I haven't got a scenario issue, but the fights are an issue:
The last encounters were just so easy for the players I don't know what to do to give them a balanced challenge.
And they're only at the 5th level !!! (well except the thief who's 6th).
Anyway, I read somewhere D&D 5th ed. was sometimes difficult to master once the characters reach the 10th level or more because they're so powerful, but I didn't think I'd be that confused when they're 5-6th and we're not quite at the middle of the campaign (they're just about to finish the dead men marshes part).
So if anyone could give me some advice, I'd really appreciate, because atm, I just feel I should throw scores of trolls and vampires at my players but it's really not what I'm used to in RPGs. I mean when you play Warhammer RPG, those creatures are really rare. Maybe I need to change my perspective...
Thanks in advance for the help.
edit: spelling
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So here's the situation:
I'm a veteran RPG player (been playing for more than 30 years now) but I've been acting as a Game Master only recently, also discovering D&D 5th ed in the same time.
To sum up, most of my experience comes from playing Warhammer RPG and Call of Cthulhu, and to put things simply I'm struggling to balance encounters when the players have a lot of HP and powerful abilities.
The thing is I've been convinced to become DM for my group because the guys heard of the Tyranny of Dragon campaign and wanted to play it. Since we're French and I'm the only one comfortable with reading English, I agreed to give it a try (also the system seemed quite cool and caught my attention).
Only, I found the campaign hard to play the way it's written (not trying to start a debate here), so I decided to go the way some advise: use the books as sourcebooks and the result is I've been rewriting the story a bit.
So far it's been working well enough and I haven't got a scenario issue, but the fights are an issue:
The last encounters were just so easy for the players I don't know what to do to give them a balanced challenge.
And they're only at the 5th level !!! (well except the thief who's 6th).
Anyway, I read somewhere D&D 5th ed. was sometimes difficult to master once the characters reach the 10th level or more because they're so powerful, but I didn't think I'd be that confused when they're 5-6th and we're not quite at the middle of the campaign (they're just about to finish the dead men marshes part).
So if anyone could give me some advice, I'd really appreciate, because atm, I just feel I should throw scores of trolls and vampires at my players but it's really not what I'm used to in RPGs. I mean when you play Warhammer RPG, those creatures are really rare. Maybe I need to change my perspective...
Thanks in advance for the help.
edit: spelling
t.
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