Recent content by SnakeEyes097

Thanks for the input guys. We are playing Princes of the Apocalypse, which I probably should have mentioned in the first post as there is a scripted NPC who is a wereboar. I talked to a few other friends from AL as well, and what I ended up doing was infecting the player who's adventure hook was...

Yes it works, but remember that if they are dual wielding they only get one proficiency modifier to their AC, and not two.

So there is an encounter coming up in my campaign against a wereboar, and there is no help in either the DMG or PHB. All I can find is on p. 207 of the MM, and everything in there is awesome and lycanthropy apparently has no downside. I was thinking that if a character is infected with...

In this specific case, as the concentration spell had already been cast in advance and is still active, I would allow it. I would not allow a person to cast VT as a reaction then try to attack with it though.

I really love that they are giving out these adventures. I am planning on using them at home when there aren't enough players available to run our normal campaign, so that we can still play D&D but not advance PotA for the folks that have to work or whatever.

Running modules again with a different character is fine, as long as your table doesn't use player knowledge all over the place or metagame all to heck, which I think spoils the fun. I've played a few modules a couple times, and No More Fools three times, and I always just let the players who...

EDIT: As my girlfriend pointed out, it takes an action to use a scroll (DMG p. 200) so in this case I would have the scroll rule supersede the spell rule. I'd say in this case he'd have to use the scroll in advance. "If the spell is on your class's spell list you can use an action to read the...

Awesome answers, thanks guys! I'll probably just roll for a random encounter to keep the tension up but not actually give them an encounter then if that's the case. I'm already a bit worried about stuff in the cave wrecking them as it is.

So say the party decides to take a long rest in a somewhat dangerous area, such as Wave Echo Cave. If there is a random encounter, does that fail their long rest if it's only encounter they have? From the PHB p. 186 "A long rest is a period of extended downtime, at least 8 hours long, during...

We're all adults in my group and sometimes someone has to work. That's how it goes. Missing the game is punishment enough, since nobody just skips for the sake of skipping. No reason to penalize the character or the group imo. As to how it's handled in game, we ignore that the character isn't...

Two of my players have shield, and I tell them if the spell would prevent a hit or not. I don't feel it would be very fair if I withhold information and the player wastes a very limited resource (staff charge or arcane trickster so limited spell slots) on something that won't help, and would...

His Str is 14, Cha 16. It hasn't really hindered too much so far, it's not like I miss by one very often. His spells are mostly buffs and heals, so he doesn't have to overcome monster's ac or make them save ever, and his high Con helps him keep Bless up. It's worked pretty well so far for me.

For HP, since right now we are only level 3, I will usually just assign regular monsters +/- about 4 from the average, depending on the monster. It's to differentiate monsters, and the players don't know exactly when they will kill them. Four normal orcs, for example, might have 13/18/16/12 hp...

I use those flat glass beads too for with small generic enemies, such as rats or twig blights. You can write numbers on the flat side of the glass with a white out pen, and that way your enemy beads are easy to keep track of too.

My group and I are all brand new to D&D, however I am extremely familiar with the Forgotten Realms books because I had over one hundred and twenty of them when I was younger. For our first campaign, I proposed and was accepted that we use the basic/common races, to help us all with easier role...