Recent content by Joseph Lieberman

mellored - HAHA, now I am imagining giving this super-inspirational speech to my dog. "Come on boy, you're strong, you're great. You've got big brown eyes and soft puppy kisses!" Ironically anything you do to boost temp HP is going to land in favor of the crazy paladin route. If you're packing...

mellored It certainly will hurt the pet HP, though the goal here is to do this without houserules. The math on it is pretty simple though. Lets take a realistic level: 12. If you go 7 Paladin / 5 Ranger your pet has 20 HP. If you go 12 Ranger your pet has 48. If your pet gets hit with a...

Heya Folks! TL;DR: Is there a way to make a non-small PC Beastmaster viable in a "Deadly/Dangerous" level play group? So I love the underdog class in any game for some reason, and its no secret that for whatever reason Beastmaster is 5e's red headed step child. Nonsense I say, this class is...

As far as I can tell the encounters are balanced so you aren't playing with NPCs on the board by several sessions in anyway. In my session there were NPCs only in the very first battle on board. After that I simply explained "they'd be doing things to help as needed or fighting enemies on their...

Well, starting at level 5 isn't exactly an issue, but it will require even more work than this campaign already takes. IE: You're going to have to restructure a lot of the combat enemies. If you don't start in prison you'll need another way to introduce the NPCs. You'll lose out possibly on some...

Thanks @mgshamster - Nobody took the Appendix A backgrounds - in part because I didnt even notice them until after everyone rolled a character (Woops!) The Silver Draconian Fighter is an Outlander The Dwarf Barbarian is a Noble (lets not overthink that one!) The Half-Elf Fighter is an...

Thanks Rhenny! Unwise - Yeah maybe I should have been more creative than just making it "Fueled by evil!" (though that sounds way cooler than "Amorphous pain in the ass") - Either way the result likely would have been the same... first thing to hit the water is taking ~11 dmg per round and at...

I hear you Motor. I didn't expect quite so much NPC carnage. Honestly I didn't expect them to stay and fight the spiders at all... but the lesson had to be learned that Underdark is no place for being the great hero. The lesson clearly sunk in when they just left Ront to die. I mean, he was...

Thanks guys! Iraelaemei - Depending on how you like to DM, you may be best off guiding the players better than I did. I kind of let them off the leash and they have done a number of surprising things (mostly deciding to go to Blingdenstone first). Since it is our first 5e campaign I have tried...

Long time lurker, first time poster, thought it would be fun to relay the shenanigans our intrepid group has been up to. We finally decided to test the 5e water and I drew the short straw to DM it... and so our adventurers antics shall be recorded for all history here as punishment. There are...