Recent content by aco175

This one is interesting. I did not know this and allowed it. I think most of the time the cleric would attack and then bonus action to healing word, but I was allowing it to be cast as the action if they wanted.

I cannot recall having session 0 either. Granted I play with the same people for a while and just tell them to bring a new PC to the start of the campaign. We might spend 10 minutes going over characters and background and a rule of two that are in or out this campaign, but everyone wants to...

Wouldn't the PCs that go after the monster just be the first ones to deal damage before the monster resets again? I mean, PC1 and 2 go and deal 100 damage and then monster goes and resets damage because you did not meet threshold. Now PC3 and 4 go and deal 80 damage. This carries over to PC1...

I kind of like the idea as a once-per-tier type of thing. The point is to make the penalty against the PC almost not worth taking the reward of passing a die roll, but not that hard to never take it. The only problem I see is a player vs. DM thing possibly if the players and/or the DM is not...

How do I get that tower then? That is the best part.

This article seems to have gathered a lot of lore and references to Auril.

I should have read more better. In a 1-shot I would go with dragons then. Some ancient conflict between the two races with a dragon leader trying to steal the power of the genies through a ritual. Giants could be working as its minions. Genies are somewhere in the level 14ish range I think.

@FoolishPity welcome to the site first. I'm sure you will get several great ideas. I think the easiest way to have the players run genies is to have them all be aasimar with the different traits. They start off low in power and gain power over time. You can swap out some genie powers with...

I can see the hills being useful to show some players that their PC cannot see or target the monster on the other side of the hill. In fact, I'm going to not even place said monster on the table so you do not 'happen' to go around that way when all the other monsters are in front of you. A...

I found that fantast Europe is what I grew up with as far as tales of knights and heroes, so copying that to a game world is normal and easier to have everyone at the table know what you are talking about. My gaming friends and circle growing up were all about the same culturally, so playing...

I can see where it would be handy to have some of this. I like the clear acrylic piece between each floor of the castles. It seems that you can grab and go the floors you need to get to where the PCs are. I also like the grid extending past the walls to the air around it. There are always...

Does it make sense to reduce the HP threshold if the PCs fail to deal the 150hp in the first round. It seems that the overall damage is still being dealt and the monster would start to tire. Dropping it by 25-50 each round would still be hard and in a couple rounds a zone would still die once...

First one that came to my mind was 25-30 years ago when I was DMing and thought it would be better and faster if I just rolled all the dice. All the dice. Another player and I got into a heated debate for an hour and he threatened to quit and said that I thought he was cheating and did not...

@Moving Pictures welcome. Anything here is swipeable. I like how this thread was resurrected twice now.