As per the Emerald Dragon description, Emerald dragon's breath is both psychic energy and telekinetic force causing thunder damage. Yes screams, psychic scream.
This is where you need to interpret the rules based on description. When the thunder damage is caused by a psychic/telekinetic force and not sound, silence wouldn't work.
Great encounter and glad the party had fun.
That being said, I think you did the dragon a disservice. Sneaking in to the lair is one thing. Being able to disable all the traps without waking the dragon is another. Given the acoustics in an Emerald dragon lair, I think it would setup things so...
For my table, I gave them the option of going through character creation instead of converting. We were level 4 at the time. So, they made their same character and just went through the character creation, and leveling. Using similar choices to end up with their new A5E character. This also...
Can't you just use your O5E characters as is? Or create a new character and level them up to where they are now. The idea is that any O5E character can play beside the A5E character.
Strange. I select Human. Then submit. Then I get the picture and description for human. At the bottom is says choose another or click here to head over to the next page. I click on the click here and then I get
Anyone else have an issue with the Character builder? It starts with selecting a Heritage. I move to the next step and it says I need to pick a heritage. Kinda stuck at that point.
Love the work and can't wait to add these to my games. Also a wonderful walk through memory lane. I think I still have most of those Dungeon magazines and this brings back wonderful memories of monsters forgotten.