Recent content by VagueDolphin

I will fully admit, I want ideas to steal for my game. I'm not quite at my burnout point, but I can always appreciate a good rpg story One of my favorite encounters was a simple one. The party was in a mountain that held an ancient dwarven keep. As they were exploring an abandoned tunnel in a...

I appreciate all of the advice. I'm gonna use a little a bit of everything until I figure out what a good balance is.

It wasn't that they had no ranged attacks, it was their ranged attacks would have taken forever to take down the 100ish hp flying monster. I didn't really consider the lack of worthwhile ranged attacks because the prior weeks we had at least two burn the world down magic casters. I have a good...

I suppose the question I'm trying to ask is how. Using the guide in the DMG I can get a raw exp count to scale the encounter, but it's the surprise party composition that kinda makes it hard. For example, I had a room with a couple of ogre zombies and a zombie beholder, which according to the...

I'm relatively new to DMing and I took over the game at the local game shop. The game has an open table with as few as three people and as many as eight. I want to keep the table open so when people want to try dnd, we have an easy game to have people join. We're currently running through SKT...