Recent content by waxtransient

I ran a 5e game that went up to around level 30 (using the rules in the DMG about experience and leveling after level 20). Around level 20, the whole party got epic weapons, and my rogue/warlock multiclass character received a boon that turned him into a "gestalt" character, which I think is the...

To help maintain bounded accuracy, I don't hand out +x weapons or armor in any custom loot that I give out. I will still give them out as they appear in the modules I am running however.

The effectiveness of illusionist wizards came up last night in my game for the first time. I am running a certain official D&D adventure which may contain a golem with greater invisibility cast on it. The party had no idea it was there, with the exception of the illusion wizard who had detect...

I also did this with one of my parties. In my case, I intentionally asked each one in private, so the rest of the party didn't know who had the flags. The players were fine with the arrangement, but there were no deaths during that campaign. They were also pretty casual players; I also suspect...

This sounds like a very legitimate concern, but it wasn't an issue in my campaign. In our case, the 8 med/hard encounters per day at such high levels just leveled the party so fast that they only needed one time sensitive, cosmic-level threat and its associated encounters to gain a million...

We misread Resilience in my level ~25 game and thought it could be taken more than once. By the time I noticed the error, multiple players had already taken it multiple times (two of my PC's have proficiency in 5/6 saves) so for the remainder of this campaign I'm just house-ruling that they can...

My current campaign has one more session left, and I'm sort of doing the DMG suggestion of the party getting epic boons every 30k past level 20, so using that they are levels 25-27 (I’m also allowing multiclassing post-level 20). They started with LMoP, moved into PotA, and they all wanted to...

Both are good but if you can only have one I recommend Tome of Beasts. It has many more monsters, and the monsters tend to be more challenging given their CR, making their CR more reliable. Also, Tome of Beasts probably has more mid-high to high CR monsters than the MM, 5th edition foes, and...

The bit about saving throws could have to do with using magic items or maybe it is a nod to the Mystic class, whose abilities aren't actually spells, AFAIK.

Brim, a tattoo covered, neutral good centaur, hails an adventuring party as they settle around their evening campfire for supper. He informs them that he is a former adventurer who still has a penchant for valuable loot but got tired of shaking off otyugh poison. In exchange for enough of the...

Since most repeatable saving throws take place at the end of one's turn, I assumed death saving throws occurred at the end of turn as well rather than the beginning (I also think that is how it was in 4e). This has been an unfortunate mistake on my part, as my PC's have rolled an inordinate...

Low level D&D is the best.

*PotA Spoilers* Our rogue was given endless grief for running away from melee over the course of 14 levels of campaigning. During the PotA showdown with Imix, the rogue charged valiantly into the face of the god, and did not retreat. He was quickly knocked unconscious. Additionally, he was...

I'll preface this by saying that I give a significant amount of xp to my players for role playing and exploration, as it makes zero sense to me that 100% of the xp should come from only one of the three pillars of the game, especially when it's not even the pillar that sets tabletop role playing...

Lawful Good 19 Neutral Good 23 Chaotic Good 15 Lawful Neutral 19 Neutral 19 Chaotic Neutral 5 Lawful Evil 21 Neutral Evil 21 Chaotic Evil 8 Just because I've seen a million chaotic good characters who never ever do anything good. Just be chaotic neutral and be done with it.