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Knowing my players, they'll be too afraid to leave the dungeon once they're in. Historically, they go in murderhobo style and make a lot of noise. So if they do leave part way through, the bad guys know they've been there and have time to recoup, plan and reinforce. I have a feeling they're...

Couple other quick questions. Out of curiosity, how long did it take for others to run this to completion? I expect players to get 8-10 levels out of T1-4, so I expect at least 5-6 months. We meet once a week. Any recommendations on Greyhawk campaigns/modules that tie well into ToEE...

Seriously, why didn't I come here weeks ago? A week out and now I've got tons of awesome ideas thanks to you guys. Guess I know what I'm doing for the next week!

Yeah, I'm starting to run numbers and see how things look before hand. I have 4 players with a 5th that will be NPC'd for the most part because of his schedule. This is definitely something that's a concern of mine. I need to sit down and really dig through and set that up. I don't want...

Serious thanks to everyone who's responded to this thread. It's definitely sparked a whole new line of creativity I was lacking for working on this. I was getting caught up in the reformatting of block upon block of text so that it was understandable (I use OneNote to run games). Definitely...

Definitely appreciate all the feedback. Those are the exact notes I've been leaning heavily on. What you say of Hommlet makes complete sense, it could be I'm concerned for no reason. This is a reformation of my original 5e group, which broke up due to a few players being overtly bad at...

As the topic says, I'm about to start DMing T1-4 Temple of Elemental Evil for the first time. I've never played AD&D so my mechanics understanding is limited, but I've been reading a lot of other peoples notes that have already converted it. I've been playing 3.5e for 2-3 years and 5e for 2...

The character is fairly unique. It has quite a backstory as well. I've typed up a shortened version of it below. I asked him his character motivations for this last night and his response: Here's his background if anyone's interested. It's quite interesting. Born to a noble elven mother...

Honestly, it wouldn't impact it really. And I guess that's kind of what I'm getting at, they're not playing to their alignments faithfully. At least in my opinion. Which is something this group has struggled with. Save for 1 player (the one actually roleplaying his character and performing...

Oh, I definitely don't plan to just go *poof* You're evil!. A DM tried that with me on my first character. He had 2 god's trying to coerce me to their side (he was insane and followed a made up god) and gave him extremely obscure dream that would've completely reversed everything about my...

A quick preface, I'm running my first campaign and it's been going pretty well. I'm running the DNDNext Ghost of Dragonspear Castle and everyone's really enjoying it. The party is most of the way through the Ambergul Estate and have had some interesting things happening with the players. A...

I'm of a similar opinion to N'raac. I'd prefer not to alter my PC's concept for this singular event. Granted it is a fairly large event, but I don't want it to force my hand for the next several levels. I'm now thinking I'll take a bit of RP into it and start leaning my cleric towards evil...

So far, he hasn't disallowed any books at all. My cohort is a bard, level 7 I believe. He writes songs about the greatness of Beb and sings them around town attempting to gain followers.

First off, really appreciate all the replies. I wasn't expecting to get much out of a post, but you guys are great with a lot of info for a newbie. The DM actually apologized for how badly he nerfed me and assured me it wasn't on purpose. Said he didn't even think of someone running an...

I believe I'd need to be psionic for that to work. Thanks though?