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A few more sessions have passed by now. The group have just finished Zorzula's rest. The fun part of that was the mine tracks where the group got some of the carts mechanisms operating and then broke them while fighting the auger. That led to the carts speeding through the mines and picking up...

Also agreed. I didn't manage to do it well. But I am not a game designer.

Yep. Heaps of work to put a system together. It's while since I wrote it, but actions took 6 segments. A 5' movement was 1 segment. A spell (action) was 6 segments, but higher level spells took longer by 1 segment per level. A dagger was 3 segments, a longsword was 6 segments and a two-handed...

We gave it a good crack - 3 sessions. I didn't want to scrap it because I'd put a lot of work into it. But it made the game less fun.

There were three places where it fell over. 1) Movement sucked. As everyone is jockeying into position, one square at a time it meant that everyone considering every segment. As a DM moving up to 6 NPCs it was tiresome. We had the action happen immediately but with a time cost. So if you were...

We tried something similar in a D&D game a while back. It slowed combat down to an absolute grind.

We also finished Dragon Heist if you count a TPK as finishing.

Just goes to show, different styles fit different people. I played in that one and my group loved it precisely for the reasons your group hated it.

I'm really excited by Vecna. I said on one of these threads many years ago that my ideal adventure would be one that traverses the many D&D worlds hunting for the rod of seven parts. And behold, here it is. I agree that the QA needs to be better than the shattered obelisk. I'm lazy as a DM and...

It's all about the hook for me. If the theme does not spark my imagination I just don't touch it. ToA was possibly the best D&D campaign I have ever run and I did that pretty much as written. It had so much room for flexibility. PoTA was pretty good, but a lot of that was me transferring it to...

I'm going to go against the consensus here. I much prefer the long campaigns. As a time poor DM it is much easier for me to know what is coming up and how it fits into what has come before than to try and jimmy together a series of unrelated modules and try and make a story out of it. Tomb of...

It's been a couple of sessions since I last posted here, but the group defeated the spider, took the two Rockseeker brothers back to Phandalin and went back to Wave Echo cave to clear it out ready for mining. Once close call and one permadeath. The giant octopus reached out, grappled the...

April 1st was yesterday. You're living in the past*. *Note, the author of this post lives in New Zealand which is 17 hours ahead of America (Washington).

Another session this week. Agatha the banshee went without a hitch. Then back to town where a strange illness is going around. One of the characters has formed a physical relationship with sister Garaele and was quiet worried about her. She is very ill. They did not try and work out the...

Last night the group decided to do some of the side quests while Gundren gathers supplies to go to the lost mine. They went to Wyvern Tor and cleared it well after a long battle. In the cave they found an unlabelled map of Thundertree with an x showing on the tower. I had not fed them that side...