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If your players have also played BG3 they might enjoy references to the prominent gods in the game. Alternately, if you want to make the gods your own and you don't want preconceptions, maybe these are some to avoid: Dead Three (Bane/Baal/Myrkul) - the villains Mystra - featured in Gale's...

The rest of my group has never once regretted the fact that I am in charge of naming and assigning thumbnails to our session recordings.

Feel like there should be a sidebar in the DMG that tells DMs clerics can do the following things by the time they have 5th Level Cleric spells, largely without saves: Identify and cure any disease or poison* End any curse or attunement to a cursed item End any possession/charm/fright by...

In theory if the party is spending time trying to open a locked chest, the DM has things that will happen randomly. The first module in QFtIS has the following possibilities for Level 1-3 characters: 1 rust monster (CR 1/2) 2 giant centipedes (CR 1/4) 1 owlbear (CR 3) Social(?) encounter with...

It looks a little less nice, but I don't think this is something players are likely to notice or make a big deal about. If you want to see how the Monster Manual token images are cropped to fit the rings, visit FoundryVTT\Data\modules\dnd-monster-manual\assets\subjects* to see them without the...

I'm not sure what the situation is on v12 Foundry, but on v13 if you have any transparent image, it can assign a token ring for you.* This is how the 2024 Monster Manual assigns rings in Foundry so it should look identical. (MM24 Foundry version token on the left, my token made from a...

I think there are players who want to play someone that looks nearly human with maybe 1 superficial change, but has completely different traits. And there are players who want the tiefling outcast fantasy, but don't want to be red or purple. Or they want the "outcast" nature to come from...

The third woman is Anjali Bhimani, who is probably best known for voicing Symmetra in the Overwatch videogame (the same game where a guy named Matt Mercer plays a cowboy). You're right that she has also been in a lot of D&D shows. Around the time the above video came out, Ginny Di also did an...

Converting my Session Zero notes from a Google Doc to Foundry... Left - A player-facing slide about the setting. Players would see just the slide and not the surrounding menus. Right - Character creation rambling, DM-facing because no one is going to read that. It might help me figure out what...

As the long-term notetaker for my group, I have observed that the players who would benefit most from reading session notes have zero interest in doing so. So I write the notes I would most like to read more than anything else. Also I never take notes during the session. I upload a recording to...

When I was checking out Foundry and looking at their trailer, it kept showing players walking around in completely separate hallways or corners of the map, zipping in and out of rooms with no pause whatsoever for interaction with the DM. I was like who plays like this??

This zero prep stream of the 5E Pharaoh module may interest you. Part 2 Edited version - DM talks about what was easy (combat) and what was hard (complicated NPCs and dungeon mechanics) at the end.

Thank you for this. I love reading about people's actual playthroughs of modules and the timing details (how long will X rooms/maps of prep last!).

Oh yeah the Beyond PHB hiding the species drives me crazy. Curiously the Foundry version does not have that issue. (sorry if someone posted this already, there's a lot more pages to this thread than I expected from last night to tonight)