Recent content by Amheirchion

Some slight spoilers ahead. For the Sanctuary quest in the first chapter my players bricked themselves at the sheer number of foes present around the sanctuary, in the end the bard disguised himself as a raider and positioned himself outside of the gates so that he could call to the...

I've only been DMing for a few sessions, and only started playing D&D earlier this year. The DM of my first game used a screen so it seemed natural to use one, monkey see monkey do, etc. I use a screen made out of two CD cases, I got the idea from someone's blog (I'd credit it if I remembered...

I think it will be a while before my players are rich enough to build anything as our first session will be this Sunday. When and if we get to castle building though I'll probably go with something like; for every four days your pc is away, only one days work is completed. With the work being...

I found that with the fillable PDF's from WOTC, I could Save As, and save it with a new file name, useful for putting the character name in the file name, but if I updated that PDF later I had to save it under another new name as it wouldn't let me overwrite the old one.

A nice concise list, thanks. I think that, combined with a general feel of how long things things like shopping, drinking etc. take, should help me out to start with.

Thanks for the replies. I might make myself a little cardboard clock to keep a quick track of time to start with, as I will probably lose myself horribly otherwise. That said, it may transpire that I manage to keep track of things anyway. I must admit that I hadn't even thought about keeping...

Hello, I'm new here. I signed up the other day after taking time out to read around some threads on D&D 5th edition. Today while reading some posts on short rests I got to thinking how I would track time in a game. I haven't been playing D&D long, I joined a D&D 3rd/3.5 (not sure which) game...