Recent content by ChelseaNH

I'm just starting this with my group. The characters are 3rd level, so we can concentrate on the main adventure thread instead of puttering around Red Larch. I'm trying to steer them to investigate Feathergale Spire first, while dropping hints about the other elements. My thought is that they...

I have a new campaign starting with 7 players and this is the first time most of them have rolled up characters in 5e. There was some discussion but not real coordination. We wound up with 1 human barbarian, 1 elf barbarian, 1 elf ranger, 1 dragonborn warlock, 1 elf wizard, 1 gnome wild magic...

Re: boring backgrounds I'm newish at being a DM. In our first game (LMoP), we used mostly pregens because we were just testing out the new system; no point in investing a lot of time if we didn't like it. So this is the first game where everyone created characters. They came up with their...

The warlock in my current game decided that he was reading something he found in some old ruins which seemed to be a treatise and turned out to cast a ritual to contact his Great Old One. So there could be a surprise buried in the pages. Speaking of books: A player in my Lost Mines of...

The party was 3rd level. I decided I wasn't going to force a confrontation, but give them the opportunity for a fight if they wanted it. My party went to Thundertree, met the druid, cleared out the ash zombies and twig blights. They ignored the cultists and camped out in the barracks for a...