Thank you for your replies. They are all helpful.
I seems to me that the pressing factor is weather the party are pressed or not. If they are not pressed for time or under some other kind of pressure, whats the point of forcing the roll if they can take their time in bashing it down?
I would...
I picked mine up with MerricB. What a glorious day. Every one of the 24 copies was pre-ordered by gamers in Ballarat. After rolling up initial characters, we had two tables running some short pithy adventures to break in the books. ;)
How do you handle a party repeatedly trying to break down a door? For example, the party approaches a locked door and fails a pick check. They try to break it down. They fail the first check, and the second and they just keep trying to they succeed.
I can think of four ways of handling this...
Thanks Merric for your expert DMing (along with Ben, Callun, Lee & Dave) and coordination of this adventure.
Kaelib was a memorable character which I look forward to restarting in 5E and creating from depth of personality.
The adventure certainly had something for everyone: plenty of...
I was sitting next to the Cleric at this table. Great 5E start. Greg's Wood Elf cleric archer was great to roll with and well role-played. Love Merric's DMing as well. Very colourful and vivid.
I rolled up something similar to your suggestion. Wood Elf hero fighter with high dex and...