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My current home game is centered on the Dragon Coast, and Westgate in particular; the party has gone as far as Starmantle* and back. If things continue on their current course, we're likely to visit Marsember, the Dales**, and the Silver Marches before we're through. (And beyond to the Planes...

Don't think in terms of "plot." Think in terms of pressure. Apply pressure until the PCs have to do something. Then keep turning it up.

Ah, okay. Which suggests to me that mostly this IS intended to be an ain't-it-awful discussion. Which is perfectly fine! Feeling let down by something you want to like is frustrating, and venting about it might help - if that leads you to option 1 in a way that doesn't bring down the fun of your...

Okay, then! So since you're looking for solutions rather than just wanting an ain't-it-awful discussion, here's where I see the rundown: - Not playing seems to not be an option for you. - Changing the game is not an option; you're in organized play and constrained by AL rules. Within those...

Back when the party was at 2nd level, houseruling minions with a couple HP apiece turned out to be a great move. Our powergamer's monk gleefully killed a LOT of cultists in a great set-piece battle. Everyone had a blast. Now that they've hit the second tier, the squishiness is less of an issue...

So in the home game I've been running for going on a year now, one of my players is a self-described powergamer. A few months ago he confessed, with tongue partially but not entirely in cheek, that in most games before this one he felt his biggest accomplishment would be if he could make the DM...

So I'm one of the fortunate few who's done pretty well with a PWYW item on the DMGuild (as in a silver seller, well reviewed and rated, made the top fifteen for the last few weeks). It's made folding money - not pay-the-bills money, but not just pizza money, either. I'd estimate 15-20% of...

That's how I understand it. From the Community Content Agreement:

Thanks for the positive review and the feedback, Hemlock. I'm glad you find it an overall good product. In re. the items on your wishlist, I have to confess that I made a deliberate choice to go no deeper than the MM does with these, both so that the flavor is (relatively) seamless and because...

Hemlock - I wish I could; I really wanted to set up the file with a preview so the first few pages were available, but I seem to not have the sort of profile that allows such a thing. BUT, I really, truly don't mind if you download it for free, either. If you like it enough that you feel...

Hey, zoroaster100 - thanks for your kind words! I'm thrilled at the attention and good feedback my little document of NPCs has been getting since I posted it, and I'm glad to hear it's as useful to some folks as I intended it to be. Thanks for picking it up, and even more for taking the time to...

That wouldn't surprise me. The thing that strikes me most about 5EFoes is that it's missing an editorial pass or two; it's much too transparently a patchwork from many contributors, and could have used whatever TLC would have made the difference of giving it a unifying voice. Though being in the...

Much obliged, Xethreau! Thanks for your kind words, and I look forward to reading your review.

Necromancer/Frog God Games has some uneven quality, certainly. I like Fifth Edition Foes, but I'm glad I got it on sale. On the other hand, The Blight looks incredible, and I'm thrilled to have supported it on KS. I am wicked excited about Tome of Beasts, and not only because it wound up...

Indeed! Of course, we can say pretty much the same of RPGs as well. :D

I would've guessed that way too, but that's not the way the calculations seem to have worked out. The mage in the MM benefits a great deal from being able to sling a high-level fireball, which nudges up CR a couple of notches; I didn't feel like every spellcaster ought to have that kind of...

Good morning 5E players - and especially DMs! I have a new pay-what-you-want release available on the Dungeon Masters Guild. Adversaries & Allies is an expansion on the NPCs in the Monster Manual, and includes over 30 pages of new spellcasters, rogues, lords, clergy, and other folk great and...

Okay, here's a canonical Realmslore example: Anwir Duprestiskava, longtime Supreme Potentate of Var the Golden, is an ancient shapeshifted blue. (Okay, the text doesn't say "shapeshifted," but it does say "playing at being human," and that almost no one realizes what he really is, even though...

Mouseferatu, any chance you have an especially large group? Big parties play hell with encounter balance. (I run for a table of 7-8 PCs. They go through monsters like a stoner goes through pastries. It's kind of terrifying.) Some things I've started to try: -Encounters are boss monster +...

The 3E Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting is a pretty definitive guide to the setting's history and geography up to the edge of the most recent Realms-Shaking Event (RSE). If you want a feel for what the "classic" setting looks like and want only one book, it's your best single source. If you're...