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One of the players in my game has developed a webapp for maintaining party loot. Looks pretty cool and he'd like to get more people kicking the tires. You can check out his post on reddit here: http://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/2tzl6y/dnd_loot_a_web_app_i_made_to_track_and_sync_party/ His...

I'm looking for some quick advice here. I backed Necromancer Games / Frog God's Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/necromancergames/necromancer-games-back-for-5th-edition) for all three books. After snagging the Fifth Edition Foes PDF by registering on their web site, I received...

Can you provide an example? Everyone seems to be ga-ga over the 5E DMG and I seriously don't get it. I mean, it doesn't suck, but I don't understand all the gushing reviews. I do like the fact that is has bits and pieces all together: a mini-manual of the planes, info on things like poisons...

Interesting approach. I like it! Going to 0HP and bouncing back immediately from a spell / whatever doesn't seem to invoke much emotion in the group I am DM'ing right now. Adding this twist may make them a wee bit more cautious. Thanks!

To expand on Guachi's comment, use Google to look up "Dungeon Geomorphs". You can print a few basic shapes out and then use those individually or in combinations to get a variety of rooms for players to fight in or explore.

No, but some of the specifics of combat make it very nice to be able to layout where everyone is at in relation to each other for Opportunity Attacks, area effect spells, movement, etc. As a DM you could wing it, but as a player when there are a bunch of monsters in an encounter, it can get...

It worked for me last night. Now, I'm seeing the same thing as you. Just went to their home page and it looks like it has moved: http://www.gametrailers.com/full-episodes/ima5n8/tabletop-adventures-dungeons---dragons--episode-10---a-special-adventure-with-wizards-of-the-coast

I thought it was interesting to see how Chris handled things. I would have sucked as a DM for this group. I can't stand players that do the whole in-party bickering thing (I'm looking at you, Red Shirt.) I also thought the senseless killing by Mist was a bit much. There should have been...

I highly recommend picking up the Starter Set. It gives you everything you need and helps prevent players from feeling overwhelmed with information overload. Since a lot of choices are made for them out of the gate in the form of pre-generated characters, it's fairly easy to get going in a...

Pros on getting the starter set: - Contains all the rules you need to get going along with some tips along the way - Includes a very nice module that will give them a lot of things to explore - Is fairly cheap. - A set of dice is included. - Contains pre-gens, so the players can get going really...

I came up with a 5E Monster Template using LibreOffice Writer and figured I'd try these cool Kobold Themes to test it out. See attached. Send me any comments / corrections... Enjoy!

I scoured Google images and DeviantArt for those images. If I had access to even higher resolutions of each one, I'm sure I could redo the image files at a higher DPI. Additionally, the original SVGs I used can be opened by the Open Source program Inkscape.... so just about anyone else could...

I wish I could have improved the resolution -- but that was really governed by the original images I snagged. I agree about the personal use thing. It wasn't like I was printing more than one copy of each page for some sort of mass counterfeiting operation. :P I've not considered doing this...

You are definitely welcome! That looks really sweet! What kind of covers did you get? I printed my cover pages and then just had the printer put a clear plastic cover as the front page and a heavy black cardstock for the back page. I initially tried to get my covers printed at OfficeMax...

I went to a local (non-chain) print shop to have this done. I've heard both good and bad experiences at Kinkos and similar chains. I'd recommend finding a place and bringing your book in. Tell them what you want done and have them explain how they'd cut things up for you. Decide from there.