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It is a quirk of the maths that Defensive Style is not as good for giving an otherwise vulnerable character some extra defense as it is for making a great tank even better. In one of my games there is a Paladin with 20 AC who often fights hordes of low level things. They need a 16 to hit...

A few notes: - I would make it vulnerability to fire, rather than disadvantage on saves. They are no less likely to dodge a fireball than anybody else, it is just that the consequences are worse for them if they don't. - Unless you are making them a lot shorter, I would force the +1 into Str...

I like it. What if the elemental was Prometheus himself, having returned to the material plane, expecting to be worshipped as a god. He comes back expecting parades in his honour for being the savior of mortal-kind, but finds that he is forgotten about and barely a myth now. He has been changed...

That's not what I had in mind when I called them a dying race, but I do like it. I think that a fire elemental that is not growing is shrinking. I don't think that they can maintain a status quo indefinetly. They either consume and grow, or fade and wither. What I had meant to say is that they...

TWF needs a bit of help once somebody gets to three attacks total, not something that that anybody but a fighter will come across. At one attack, it is better than a two-hander, at two attacks they are effectively even, its only really at three that they become a bad option. Barbarians are an...

Slightly off topic, but I don't really like NPCs having stats above 16 very much. If PCs invest in 18 Int, they should be the smartest guy in the room in almost all instances. If the PC has 18 Str I don't want to overshadow them with some random NPC being as strong or stronger. I prefer PCs...

Just a note about HP on animals. It is easy to look at something like a horse and think it must have a lot of HP. It is true that they are hard to kill, but they are very easy to take out of a fight. It depends what you think zero HP means really. It's not to hard to hobble or ruin the resolve...

My issue with attunement is that PCs often have some character defining items that eventually become pretty sub-optimal when better ones come along. My items tend to be at least empathetic if not intelligent and almost all of them change the user in some way. For instance, I gave one PC a set...

I would say that it wants to make babies. A fire elemental requires a fair bit of room to move and lots of stuff to consume. It does not necessarily do this just for laughs or food, it needs to do it to reproduce. When it consumes enough, gets to a certain size, it sort of split like a starfish...

Most fantasy cities are pitched at a level of technical advancement that has mage's academies and temples analogous to universities in our world. These have often been established for a very long time, there is always some artificial reason why technology has not advanced that much, the timeline...

I get PCs to roll 1d20 per attack, all at once. Their damage is then multiplied by how many of those dice hit. They can of course split the damage evenly between enemies equal to the amount of hits they got. Rolling them all at once takes no time at all generally, don't bother asking if the 19...

Not trying to poopoo on the OPs preference, but can I get a show of hands on who actually enjoys working out encumbrance and feels it adds to their game? I'm yet to meet anybody who enjoys it. We just have not seen what it adds mechanically. The only exception being in GURPS, where you kind of...

Or the "Great Purge / Cultural Revolution" it was the year that religious tolerance died, people of faith were labelled as "cultists" and self-appointed militia conducted a spate of extra-judicial executions, without trial.

The first post reminds me of a great scene from Red vs Blue: "I'm not mean, I just get hired to do mean things" "Yeah, but you like it..." "Think it's important to like what you do"

I would get my DM to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIHyIacXlAA Then rock out a suave pirate eye patch.

As a DM, I don't like any PC having abilities that mean that I regularly have to tailor encounters and adventures to accommodate them. The same goes with disabilities. I never want a PC to play a centaur, as I don't want to be unable to run an adventure that involves a bunch of climbing, or have...

I don't know about thrills, but I have certainly had my players fly into rage at a betrayal, made all the better by the fact that there were so many clues in hindsight indicating it was coming. The most perfect of which was the PC spared/saved a little girl after breaking into her fathers...

The last two 1st level boss fights I have used were: 1) Have you ever seen a care knuckle boxing tent show? It was like that, but the with wooden weapons as well as with fists. The champ knocks out foe after foe and is insulting to the village, saying the he could take on a handful of them at...

My Warlock tends to use Friends to get advantage on intimidation checks. Not friendly at all. If I succeed I don't care if they are hostile towards me, as long as they are too cowered to do anything about it. It is great for bullying folks. My Eldritch Knight (variant, illusion and enchantment...

I can recommend the Ravenloft one, it was quiet good. There is something to be said for playing to the strengths of a one-shot though. PC deaths and betrayal are good options. You could run a Tomb of Horrors style game, like Revenge of the Iron Lich from 4e 4thcore. It would take minimal...