Recent content by stoneagewar3

I do something similar, although I still allow death saves, each failed save is a semi-permanent -1 to an ability score of the player’s choice (and they need to give a narrative that fits once the character is up again) The players can declare their character dead any time they are making death...

You realize that Wukong doesn’t use ANY of the weapons you gave the race proficiency for right? On flavor along those should be removed, maybe allow them to fight better with quarterstaff? I would also stay away from giving them heavy armor proficiency, especially with the proposed magic...

i know for sure that my group does, the only time they asked for a rest when they were fresh was when the party warlock dumped all his spell slots to cast spiderclimb in order to help the party overcome a cliff (party has a cavalier, and he couldn't think of a way to get his horse up the cliff)

Well, the duergars will probably rally before they try to tear the barricade down, and if they fail, the party should be staring at just about every single duergar in the fortress when they do come out, if they do decide to leave, they will probably burn the place down, the party will get smoked...

Have the merchant hire mercenaries (I mean legions of mercenaries) to hunt them down. A wealthy and powerful merchant (I am assuming the merchant is wealthy and powerful since he is in possession of a legendary item) probably has connections or informers everywhere to know that the pcs are...

My table finds rolling concentration checks for damage too fiddly for us. So we changed that part, we only make concentration checks when the attack exceeds ac by 5 or more or if the blow bloodied the PC (we kept the concept, I throw a slight penalty on them when they are bloodied, this...

2 of my favorite fantasy novels, and a notebook to write down anything that comes to mind edit: the favorite fantasy novels might get replaced with other books if there is a specific tone or feel I want to aim for

A feature that gives a spell rider effects should not trigger other features based on those riders as the spell did not cause it. If the designer left out the once per turn clause, curse of the sea would repeatedly trigger itself except with cold dmg based on how you read it, does that sound...

It is possible to DM without digging through the DMG for sure, I DMed for my current group for about a month before I picked up a copy of 5e DMG (I do have the DMG for 3rd edition and 4e, although I only really skimmed through the 3rd edition one prior to running my first games) You will want to...

I often allow sorcerers to cast spells not on their known list but has seen it recently, requires a check, spell slot is used regardless. Sometimes it triggers unexpected effects as well edit: to be fair I allow any arcane caster to do it, with sorcerers having the added bonus of spending SP to...

If I am your DM, your reason honestly won't be enough to let me pass it, actually, I wouldn't even look at the proposed change, better in combat is not an interesting character concept, and it wouldn't be worth my time to look at and decide what needs to be changed to be brought in line with...

i thought about it a bit, and came up with an idea, you would roll say 4d6 at lower levels and adding an extra dice every couple levels, no rerolls, but you could choose to keep any dice not used from turn to turn if you are fighting the same opponent, and if you are not, you have to reroll all...

I kind of like the idea While yes, a trained fighter should be able to execute their techniques every time while practicing, his enemies most likely wouldn't help him finish executing his techniques, whether they know how the technique goes or not isn't very important if its a humanoid, its...

i ran games for quite a few absolute beginners (9 so far), i don't even show them the books until they ask. had no problem playing, we now have a few people at lv 5, and none of them has even read the phb. two newer players are now lv 3, and has just recently asked for source materials that they...