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Then it gets to die as easily as any other mook. If you intend for a bad guy to be a "boss" battle that lasts more than 2 rounds, then the boss needs stages and defenses, such as (1) ways to shed duration spell effects, (2) regain hit points, (3) change the battlefield environment and boost...

No continuity, no plans to run a future campaign here, so it'll be a true wrap up. That's where my initial thoughts went. We went to the Dragon Age setting, and the best of them all (Origins) did a fantastic epilogue based on player decisions. My brainstorm map is forming of: And then it was...

We're all adults with good jobs, so investing isn't out of the question. I also have a dedicated game room. Framing something on the wall isn't out of the question either. Our next campaign will be pirate-based (but in a different world, no continuity), so maybe some custom sea dice would be...

As an 18-month long campaign closed with a climactic boss battle yesterday, I began thinking about epilogues as I've got a couple weeks (real life breaks) to come up with a way to satisfactorily wrap up a story that has enriched us, seen plenty of character development that I never could have...

And then, it was over. Today was the finale of a Dragon Age: Origins campaign that began in January 2024 (averaging 3-4 sessions per month). It didn't feel like 1.5 years had passed since we began, but in an epic battle, the archdemon is dead, a PC made the ultimate sacrifice to keep it that...

It's all about world-building and feeling a part of that world. I almost always have a world calendar with unique universal holidays, religious holidays, PC character birthdays, and if something epic happens or happened with a past adventuring party, a note for "that's the day the evil warlord...

A Deck of Many Things has TPK'd two of my gaming groups over the years, the last a level 16 party in Acererak's Tower on the Negative Energy Plane: Player 1 imprisoned. Only a 9th level spell that the party doesn't have, can free them. Deck reshuffles. Player 2 draws the same exact card...

A weapon mastery reference page might be worth it, haven't run 2024 (yet) and don't have those memorized by a long shot. I'm currently thinking my players will take care of that part as my monsters don't seem to use it by default.

Attached are my custom DM inserts for a pirate campaign using D&D 2024 rules (Skull and Shackles, Golarian setting (Pathfinder) conversion) and reasons why this vs. that. I use a DM screen with 4 inserts on the DM side (8"x11") and 4 on the outside for players. Every campaign I do gets its own...

I bought and played these rules when running the original Dragonlance modules (5E rules) as there was an epic dragonflight battle towards the last 3rd of the campaign. Because the ruleset was foreign and advanced, my players, and me, needed a cheat sheet (attached). Disclaimer: the players had...

When most recently given choices for our next campaign between Curse of Strahd, pirates Skull and Shackles (Pathfinder conversion), or Tomb of Annihilation, my group unanimously went with pirates. Yo ho ho!

It seems simple. This guy from the Gremlins movie is hiding behind the bar. The character played by Phoebe Cates ("Kate") doesn't detect him, so effectively he's invisible to her. She's probably so distracted the DM doesn't even give her a roll to notice. Then, he pops out from his hiding spot...