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Poor Reggie the thief who volunteered to enter the dark tunnel first in the Tomb of Horrors. I lost him early and then A cleric and a fighter if I recall. Today, I would likely have a check or roll damage once you put your pinky finger in the hole and not just say you enter and I'll tell you...

I think that it also has changed over the editions. 5e characters have soo many more options from 1e days where they now have feats and skills and other powers that tell the player and DM how good they are supposed to be at something. People should not wonder then why new players, or any...

I still have cable although the TV has some Samsung thing built in with some channels. Firestick turns on the others things like Disney and Netflix. Cable provides HBO and Showtime and Disney which is free with the phone plan provides Hulu. My daughter started working at Walmart so we now get...

Pompus Assintent was a PC of a friend back in 2e days. He was a minor lord from a far away place and been sent to this land by his father to more or less grow up. He quickly pissed away all his coin and retainers soon left so he needed to find work as a warrior, having been trained is all the...

I think the first game my son played with us in when he was 8 has magical food in it. He jumped up and said, "Don't eat it- its poisoned." Must be a hard-wired reaction into gamers.

I was thinking of a DC15 for the ability check and likely would have let him land ok if he rolled a 13 or 14, with maybe some penalty. He rolled around a 5 so it did not matter. Same for the DEX save where I was around a 12 and he rolled a 6 or 7. Again, same for the touching roll in the...

Last night we played a big battle with a dragon possessed by a ghost dragon as a big boss fight in the adventure Divine Contention for 11th level PCs. An army of undead led by the dragon attacks the town of Leilon the same time a cult of Talos army attacks with both looking for a McGuffin...

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I would still make Forgotten Realms (FR) books. Maybe softcovers for each region that actually dives into their differences and have supplemental adventures for each region. Slip cover boxes to store each region and collectable foil-packs for random adventures. Tie in with actual online help...

I know many players that are more passive and not have anything more than to gain gold and or fame. I might be more work than reward for the DM to work with them. I found that having them tag along with the other invested players better for me and then hope they get some cool ideas for their PCs.

I think it comes down to options to the players. Some are great with having PC development and can plan options for their PC and develop ways to get there and other players need the DM to give them choices on where to go next. To have a bag of gold might be the end goal for a lot of PCs and...

How come you stole my list of halfling thief names? ;)