Recent content by Hedonismbot

Definitely skip to the Monster Vaults + MM3. For the * Power books, maybe figure out what characters will be involved and get the books relevant to their power source after that? Mordenkainen's Magnificent Emporium is definitely not mandatory, but fun.

I GM with a laptop, and I have D&D Beyond up all the time. Mostly for monster references, but most of my players are new to D&D and so I'm generally doing a lot of rules referencing as well (Looking up conditions, looking up spell stats). None of my players use a laptop, but they will use D&D...

Yeah! Real countries have names like Geoff! I rolled on a table to determine how much I enjoyed your OP. The result was "Beholder, and roll twice more on this table."

I'm quoting Tormyr but this question is addressed to everyone: Are there any other really good sandbox published modules? I'm currently running my group through the Caverns of Thracia, which is a kind of sandbox in that it is an enormous dungeon that can be explored in many ways, but I'm looking...

Great thread, thanks for posting all of this! I'm hoping to encourage my players to stunt more, I'll point them here for inspiration.

This is, I think, why I can never get behind the 'just don't be an optimizer and everything will work out fine' issue. I've taken things that seemed fine and then ended up completely overshadowing other players, and also had other players fall into the same thing and overshadow me. I'd rather...

Very cool! My PCs are currently a few sessions from wrapping up their dungeon crawl and I'm planning some kind of mass combat later in the campaign. Great to hear that this would work - I wouldn't have even considered trying running this on a 1-to-1 scale, but it seems like it was run a little...

Sorry, I probably wasn't very clear in my post. I try to be mindful of the mechanical implications of my decisions as both a player and a GM, but I'll try to explain below: I mentioned non-combat actions because those can sometimes take more time than combat. In most D&D games, a combat will...

Definitely this. The PCs might be told 'You have 2 days to complete this quest or the consequencse will be dire' but the DM is basically saying (and should be thinking when creating that time limit) 'You can take a maximum of this many short/long rests, and/or complete this many out-of-combat...

As long as it takes to spark up a wand of CLW and give everyone a hit. Don't bogart!

So the solution is "I don't think I'm going to have fun, so I'm going to burn the game to the ground to make sure no one does?" If you're not having fun, why are you playing in this game?

This is a really cool idea.