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Best practices for easy-to-run modules [+]
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The map needs cardinal directions so as to agree with the (ideal) write-up and boxed text, which has exits and features noted by...
Nov 21, 2025
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D&D 5E (2024)
GMs: How long should it usually take to go from level 1 to 4?
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Isn't that just pure DM fiat, though? They level when you decide they level?
Nov 21, 2025
Lanefan
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Yes, but those activities can be a wide variety of things... ...including things that are interesting to the character. That said, I...
Nov 21, 2025
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Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition
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Better fix would be to just let damage spells auto-scale with level like they did in 1e-2e, and ditch upcasting completely. Fireball...
Nov 21, 2025
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Nitpicks to an otherwise good presentation: Xp for the golems should be listed with the monster write-up. Just saying 2200 xp for the...
Nov 21, 2025
Lanefan
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No, it's merely one more criticism in a list of them, as shown in the post you quoted. Then perhaps not the best example to pull out?
Nov 21, 2025
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Are You A GM?
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Been running games fairly regularly since 1984 and playing fairly regularly since 1982.
Nov 21, 2025
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Best practices for easy-to-run modules [+]
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As nothing overlaps vertically this map could be done top-down just as well, with numeric elevation values given to indicate elevation...
Nov 20, 2025
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First very quick thought there is that blanket % resistance to all magic should be EA no matter what, while immunities or resistances to...
Nov 20, 2025
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GMs: How long should it usually take to go from level 1 to 4?
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My assumption is that the milestones are a fixed thing and, once set and told to the players, cannot be moved or altered; same as any...
Nov 20, 2025
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XP: How Do You Like To Earn It?
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Which in a way brings up yet another variable, leading to a question: When playing, is your* primary goal "to level up" or is your...
Nov 20, 2025
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Your interpretation that it is punishment for "stupid" decisions is what is off. I did not mean to imply that at all. In the theoretical...
Nov 20, 2025
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I love stuff like this. Not only does it show that the players are invested in the game, it gives me all kinds of opportunities to bring...
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Well, those who survive the funnel, I suppose...... :)
Nov 20, 2025
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While I sort of agree with this in principle, the moment you have more than one player I find it often becomes an exercise in...
Nov 20, 2025
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