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I’m tinkering around with positioning and movement rules in combat encounters and am wondering if anyone else has experience with doing...

Voted usually: I love playing in those first few levels and I love running games for those levels. If I’ve got some veterans at the...

After six hours of play, you find a bed and a dresser.

Once again, I introduce to the world THE CUP OF DOOM. Have a cup at the table. Preferably one that is also a skull. Fill it with 2D6...

I'm going to do something never done on ENWorld before and disagree with your premise. The narrative is fine. In fact, some of the...

Oh contraire! In D&D, missing is a breath of fresh air. It's a moment when there's no decision paralysis, there are no extra dice to...

I think I disagree with the premise, that a single miss in combat creates a frozen narrative. If the state of play hasn't changed...

It just seems so very situational as-is. Spending more than one death save to gain hit points seems suicidal as it can readily result in...

So one of my players showed up with a Kobold Rogue with a Deer familiar (Find Familiar from magic initiate). Checking the verbiage on...

You may be right, but I still think it’s dramatic as hell. I imagine a character at 1HP, face bloodied, on deaths door, watching as the...

*Attempted. They were warned, and the target was random. I think you did that right. The characters are going to be jumping at...

You’re on to something. I’d increase the risk and the reward though. Permanently lose a death saving throw but immediately regain 1/2...

Death is always on the table in my games. I’ll throw dangerous encounters at my players, but I won’t make that the primary source of...

Would totally agree. I'd also add that in current D&D, there's very little bad that can happen to your character other than death, and...

On a related note, I've come to believe that a huge cause of 5e feeling like D&D on "easy mode" is too much resting (both long and...