Recent content by jayoungr

If it happens for many combatants in a row spanning multiple rounds, you've probably set your monster's AC too high. Awesome idea, but I have to ask, what happens when a player pulls from the cup, rolls, and still doesn't hit? Does that just compound the issue?

Oh, thank goodness. Now we can stop being all over the place in what we call it. Though, ironically, it seemed like the fans had settled on calling it 5E (2024).

Just use the PHB only, no supplements. Boom, done.

Both combinations are good! The contrast is key. I figured a sharp apple might "ping" less as dessert, and therefore seem less weird with cheese, which is why I suggested it for a starter option.

You're missing out! Try a sharp apple (like a Granny Smith) with a mild cheese (like Monterrey jack) as an experiment. Mmmmm! 😋

There's a meme that goes something like this: If you're outside the US, a Yankee is an American. If you're inside the US, a Yankee is a northerner. If you're in the north of the US, a Yankee is a New Englander. If you're in New England, a Yankee lives in Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine. If...

My group had an absolute blast with Tyranny. And the one-book version fixes a lot of the balance issues from the original two-book release. Just be sure you get buy-in from your players to go into a town that's being attacked by an adult blue dragon at level 1. Beyond that, it should be pretty...

Surely that depends on the campaign? If my DM homebrews an adventure called "The Necromancer's Pits of Deadly Death," then I would expect necrotic damage to come up way more often than radiant.

Hoard of the Dragon Queen is fine. It doesn't deserve the hate it gets.

I feel like your premise here is flawed, because we have no way of knowing what deities do or don't do in people's individual games. Every GM is free to use deities as much as they like or don't like.

Do you use milestone leveling?

Here's the thing, though. Taking LTH is my group signaling how they want to play. They want to be able to have a lot of control over when they can get a long rest. If I mess with that too often, then it just becomes antagonistic DMing--not to mention that at a certain point it may strain...

But by RAW, you don't need to actually sleep in order to get the benefits of a long rest, no?

I rated my campaign(s) at level 2. I regularly DM for two different groups, both of whom take Leomund's tiny hut as soon as they can. I can throw a few obstacles in their way, but messing with long rests gets a lot harder after they have that spell.

Early 5E published stuff often encouraged degrees of success or failure depending on the margin by which the player beats or misses the target number. That seems to have gone by the wayside, probably because players didn't like it.