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At some point, I will likely pick up the Advanced OSE set, as it sounds as though I will still get a lot of use out of that even with...

In The Nightmares Underneath, dungeons include some ruins, but more primarily are incursions into the waking world from the Nightmare...

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That's what I was thinking. I saw the X-Files episode "Home" when it originally aired, despite not being a regular X-Files viewer (too...

We had fun discussing these slides on episode 268 of Mastering Dungeons. The data there is surprising, but also it's a very specific set...

You could just make them a 1-hit monster and the fighter can cleave another just fine. Allow him to have fun. Spells just kill half of...

If the spells are the issue, fix the spell problem, not add a patch by having higher number of HP. Remember what the reason behind...

As someone who just ran a TON of 11th level 5e24 combats in the past few weeks, I found that 11 HP was very easy to one-shot kill. I...

i run a5e when i run 5e, so i'd probably make the knights horde monsters with a base CR somewhere around that of the commander's. if i...

I've played about 75 sessions of 5E with characters in Tier 3 and Tier 4. DMs complain about how high CR monsters don't hit hard enough...

This is more or less where Draw Steel! landed as well. Any hit over the individual reduces the pool and you figure out how many more die...

My minion approach is to give them a pool of communal hit points. So 20 soldiers for an 11th level party might have 300 hit points (15...

Are you specifically looking for the CR 3-4 minions to have a CR 3-4 offense but really weak defense? If not, I'd suggest using the...

6-7hp means that anything near average damage for weapon swing (1d8+Mods) is going to take down a minion in one swing. Especially if the...

When TSR released B/X in 1981 they planned to expand it with a third Companion book/boxed set in the future, and the Expert set...