Recent content by WolfDM32

Wow! This is all great information! I will be using some of it! :)

A little play on words there. But, as a DM I've used a variety of tools to come up with monsters for the current campaign. They've also been introduced to alternate locations where time flows differently, and my goal is the end boss is messing with time or can be defeated through a form of time...

snucked? Snuggled? HEh.. Wow! #grammarpolice... But, I agree, it couldn't be a major infiltration. But I like the idea of some low level Thayan wizards as "infiltrators" to know what's going on in the area. Try to sabotage any attempts at finding their hideout and to gather information...

I run a Homebrew campaign on Faerun where Thay has dominated much of Faerun. Undead are used for many things now amongst the living. Not quite a zombie apocalypse but almost. Lol. The players are fighting the undead and trying to find new weapons that could allow them to arm armies against...

Make the cursed item intelligent and a will of its own. E.g. a wisdom save or the player does what the item wants that round. And once used a quest to uncurse himself must be made to remove the curse. Each round the player may run, or dance, or decide to attack in ferocious ways that puts the...

I'm not real happy with the tools available. PDF of the phb and Monster manual are searchable on a computer, defeating a need for quick spell lists, and the DMG PDF is searchable as well. I have purchased the monster manual, dmg, and phb and have pdfs of each as well. As a GM I find Word...

Poisons! So, I have a couple players in my campaign interested in harvesting and using poisons. I'm thinking a survival check (thinking knowledge nature types of checks) to find and locate snakes and other venomous creatures. An additional survival check to trap the creature and then I'm not...

I was invited to post to this. I did my caravan to water deep a little differently. Initially I had them hired by a noble in Baldurs Gate that's opposing the cult of the Dragon to be a guard for a lady friend of hers. The truth which the players won't know for a while, if ever, is that the...

Thanks, I agree. In the case of the HotDQ, (so far, like I said we're working through chpaters 4 and 5 right now and will be gaining 5th level shortly, plans are to play through the conclusion - Rise of Tiamat. I'm actually afraid because I've heard many positive reviews on Tiamat. What...

Just a thought, but I type the basics of stats up in a word doc and have my monitor on the table with a k/b mouse. Some dice. Books I pop open if there's a wisdom save or dex save or something. I copy down, AC, HP, attack information, any vulnerabilities, and any special features and init...

Sorry for the mess this was originally!!! I hope it's a lot easier to read now! despite still writing too much!

ChrisCarlson, my point exactly. I see the predesigned campaigns as spring boards to content the DM needs to create. Even with the starter set campaign, the campaign was railroad. The first battle was a group of goblings in the middle of the road with no choice but to fight a group of goblins...

I don't have any players in my campaign high enough yet to worry about that. I hadn't seen that before. We had initially stated at the beginning spell components are not consumed. I'll need to amend that to say unless the spell says otherwise. Hehe. That makes a teleportation circle very...

A simple review of of Hoard of the Dragon Queen. I've read many reviews that Hoard of the Dragon Queen is bad and difficult to play. Very railroady. I agree the beginning is a tough sell. A town is being ramsacked, looted, and burned down, and loosely attacked by a dragon. If I came across...

Consumables in magic One thing is that I thought, spell components are now reusable in 5th edition. My understanding is that once one has a 100GP pearl for identify, that pearl is there all the time now for use for identify. Just that the wizard has to allocate spell slots for identify, so it...