Recent content by Mondas711

I think the thing that annoys most older D&D players that know the history of the game is that Wizards ties up the Greyhawk setting by owning the rights to it, but then does nothing with those rights. We haven't seen a Greyhawk sourcebook for approaching 15 years now. Because it has been so...

Yeah the real problem is that Cyanwrath won initiative and caught all the characters in a line coming down the hallway. I think if I started the encounter after the characters moved into the room and fanned out it might have worked differently. Even after that though I don't know if the party...

I ran this encounter for Adventurer's League and if the Cyanwrath berserker room was meant to leave a new group of players alive I don't see how. I have three new players and one player who has some play experience. The party composition is 2 rangers, a paladin, and a rogue. This is not...

I have been an avid player of elven characters since 1st edition. As such, many of my elves used longswords and I'm not afraid to say it was not only because of their racial tendencies but also because the weapon always had some niche that made it a preferable one-handed weapon. Whether it was...

I have 2 places that I DM. On Wed nights I DM Adventurer's League for the local game shop and I also DM a group at home when we get together. I'm sort of a math type of guy so I don't really like using house rules because I feel that the game was designed to be balanced and was playtested for...

I have heard many arguments in this post asserting that we need to change the threshold of negative hps to make the negative hp threshold a more viable way to kill a character of mid-level. I think what people are missing here is that I don't think the system as written really meant for that...

I will be making an elf fighter that uses a longsword. The only thing is, by level 10 he will have a 20 strength.

Jester I was wanting some clarification from an earlier post. Sorry, I'm new on forums and don't know how to re-post your quote but in it you said that all PCs start at 1st level. Just for clarification, how well does that work when the rest of the party is 10th level? It would seem to me...

I was actually being tongue in cheek through my last post. But I wasn't lying about the DMG suggestion for a 10th level character. It's on page 38. It suggests 500 + 1d10x25gp and no magic items as the suggestion for starting a 10th level character. Personally, I will give any player that...

So let's kill off the 10th level character and have the party run away. The monsters drag him away and eat him. All of him. There's nothing left to raise. The player was enjoying playing that character and now the character is gone forever. Please reroll and I will let you go ahead and make...

Don't get me wrong, while I do realize that a character needs to be effective, my character doesn't need to be min/maxed perfectly. I will build a dueling style elf that uses a longsword because I have made this character for several editions since I first made him for AD&D first edition. I...

Does anyone else find it odd that the preferred weapon of the elf sword and shield fighter is no longer the optimal weapon for that race? I am of course speaking of the longsword. The favored weapon of the wood and high elf no longer really fits them. If using point buy, the dwarf, human...