Recent content by ClearlyTough69

Try B10 Night's Dark Terror or X4 and X5 together. They're BECMI but well designed wilderness adventures with a clear goal.

You're doing it right: if a creature is lightly obscured from you (which is what dim light does) but not behind cover, you still see it automatically unless it is trying to hide from you. And despite what other respondents have said, you're interpreting dim light in the context of darkvision...

When you dash, how about making an Athletics check and adding the result to your speed? You could use other posters' ideas for imposing a constraint, cost or risk to this.

I don't think it's the intention of 5e that you should take the Hide action every round to remain hidden. The Hide action allows you to make a Stealth check, and that Stealth check persists until you stop being hidden. From the Hiding sidebar, PHB p 177: I can't read into RAW the need to make...

My reading is that you must be unseen to attempt to hide, but once you are hidden you can remain hidden from other creatures provided they can't see you clearly. This was spelled out in the Hiding sidebar in later printings of the PHB. In my book, any amount of obscurement or cover means you...

You can't try to hide from a creature that can see you. That's it. There's no requirement to be silent and unheard before you try to hide, because that's what hiding is for: making less noise and being inconspicuous. To be unseen by another creature, you normally need to be heavily obscured...

I don't agree: I use the term exact position advisedly because it has no reliance on a grid. When WotC say location, they mean the place where a creature is as distinct from where another creature is or might be. If I am hidden from you but you can deduce my location, you have a chance of...

I'm going to reply one paragraph at a time. I think it's worth spelling out that 'hidden' describes a relationship between two creatures: one creature is hidden from another though it might not be hidden from a third. I suggest tweaking your second sentence as follows (I've underlined my added...

I don't think it does let you do this. It lets you find a *major landmark* and gives examples of mountains, cities, castles and battlefields. These are not inconspicuous little things: they're things you can see from miles away. Duke Dunderhead's tomb is safe for the time being. And of course...

I agree that Intelligence it too weak. I have two solutions: New effects of Intelligence Reward high Intelligence and punish low Intelligence as follows: start in the middle and stack up the effects as you go up or down until you reach your Intelligence score. Eg if your Intelligence is 5, you...

I like to have varying degrees of failure. The easy one is that it takes you longer, and taking longer has two very real consequences: possible random encounters, and Stealth check re-rolls. Here's the rule I use for picking locks, disarming traps, investigation and such like (tweaked for...

Perhaps make this a feat Shared Burden Prerequisite - the ability to cast spells After you cast a spell on another creature and the spell requires concentration, you can use a bonus action to share the burden of concentrating on the spell with the creature you cast it on. If either of you...

The rogue is assumed to be making very little noise. If she makes more noise, it's a judgement call whether she's automatically heard by any creature with the wherewithall to hear her, or they just have advantage on their Perception checks relying on hearing. If the rogue is has not moved for...

Yes, you've described exactly what I do: for a passive Perception check, apply disadvantage (-5) to see the rogue, and straight passive Perception to hear her; for an active check, roll two dice and apply Perception modifier, and if one beats the rogue's Stealth score, she is heard, and if both...

That is really inspiring - and provides some good ideas for me to steal :) What is the students' attitude to D&D now? Let us know how things develop. Like, have you now consigned yourself to a life eternally DMing for students? Worse things could happen!