Recent content by TRD23

"Because it has always been done that way" is rarely a great reason for doing anything. When I started my most recent campaign I came very close to going back to giving XP for that nostalgic feel but again the limited pro's that I could see were far outweighed. Would love to hear from DM's...

For those of you that actually award XP (I am referring to home games here not Adventurer League type organized games) why do you do it? I have always thought the hassles of XP accounting and the constant requirement of setting up encounters to meet an XP budget to outweigh any benefit - just...

That is pretty much the approach I have adopted. Similarly with races other than humans I just allow them to +2/+1 any combination of attributes. Really loving 5E so far, without all the mechanical moving pieces of 4E, it's a dream to run.

Is it hard to keep encounters fun? I think the thing that is worrying me is that one of the things I love about 5E is how quick combat is versus 4G but with 7 players it's hard to have quick fights (from my admittedly very little sample size)

I have recently started a new campaign and have been (un)fortunate to have 7 players. For those of you that have similar sized parties in 5e (or other editions) any specific tips for creating and running encounters? I am not talking about all the basic things to speed up fights (pre rolling...

Fair call, maybe make them +20!!! swords?

For that EPIC feel OP just add a zero to everything. So instead of a +2 sword and AC 29 it's now a mega +20 sword and oh man AC 290. EPIC!!!!!