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I used a slightly varied version of Noble Rot, my PCs just burnt the whole place down after sledge hammering out the corners of some supporting walls. I had described lots of old withered vines and large pallets of mulch, so they had plenty of fuel to work with. Even though one of the PCs had...

Just a tip for PCs that want to use spells in a social situation without alerting NPCs with the vocal component. I have had good luck with the following. When you walk up to them, talk in a thick accent and act as if you have some difficulty with the language, or don't know some nouns. Ask them...

Dalryn Is nobody going to ask a follow up question about how you came to be running D&D at a nursing home? I'd love to hear about that. I'm just not picturing that the first generation of D&D enthusiasts are that old yet. Maybe they are...damn that makes me feel old now. How does an old person...

Rybeck the ships cook? He has a slicked back pony tail and a shaded past.

Yes, I was unclear, if something could stop them when they did their daily divination thingy, then yeah anti-magic would work. Once that is done though the memory remains regardless. It's like a fireball, it is magical and brief, the burns it leaves behind are mundane and cannot be dispelled by...

For me, nothing that affects magic would affect portent. I would rule that anything that had an effect on memory could wipe out portent. It is not a magical effect, it is simply your memory of the future you saw that is giving you the advantage of the ability.

brehobit some people take Martial Adept or whatever it is called that gives you one superiority dice. That is often what people are referring to. I haven't had a chance to read the whole thread, so excuse me if this has been mentioned. I really don't like Riposte as a maneuver, I mean I love...

Little old ladies in places they should not be is a favorite too. I often use an old lady herding pigs in the dead of night in an unsafe area. Some of the pigs have run away and she is trying to regather them, but seems largely unconcerned. PCs generally ignore her, soon after they hear oinks...

The best monster I have used in 5e was a certain 'eye monster' in LMoP. The bad guys called it The Eye Monster, but also The Beholder. They knew the name of that type of monster and just assumed the name fit. So the PCs were freaked the hell out, thinking that a very high CR Beholder was in the...

Good question. The Ranger need not be a champion of nature, in fact I think that most are not. There is no baked in sense of duty to the natural world or alignment with a particular god/nature spirit. The Ranger can be a bounty hunter, a trapper/hunter, a guide or simply a SAS-style-soldier...

As a DM I would love it if a player did this. The last time a PC did this they picked up the dagger of a paranoid assassin. They attuned it and from that point on I described events in a paranoia enducing way. For instance when they went to stay at an inn, I would say "He hands you the beer...

I'm not claiming any historical expertise, but I can tell you that when it comes to shooting fish in water with a bow, wooden or bone arrows shatter and destroy themselves without penetrating the water significantly. Carbon and steel arrows go straight in and hit the fish. Then again, water is...

My last female characters were a wild-elf ranger, a norse valkyrie cleric of tempest, a Fijian/Hawaiian barbarian and an ex-whore charlatan rogue. They all dressed in ways that could make the pics above blush, but it was culturally appropriate for all of them. It's neither small minded nor...

In my game a PC found themselves beholden to a devil, but was a good person so would refuse to do anything extreme. So I took a leaf out of Stephen Kings Needful Things. He is called upon to leave practical jokes behind, say slightly hurtful things or tell tiny lies. The thing is, the devil...

If you do decide to run it, you can use Last Breath of Ashenport for 4e, it does not take much to modify it. That is pretty much a Call of Cthulhu adventure set against a Dagon cult. More hack and slash and less investigating, but it does capture the vibe well. I have used it in 5e.

For new players, I borrow from Firefly. At zero HP you are "out of the scene", that is it. Any death or other consequence happens as a result at the end of the scene, based on the logical outcomes and cinematic/story needs.

I do really like most of the 5e art. I particularly like the different looks of the humans. Some africanish looking guys and girls, a samurai looking lady and some rather interesting looking monsters. I don't like it when some of the monster art looks like they took human faces and photoshopped...

The group I DM for has an Arcane Trickster and I have not found too much loss of drama with disarming traps. Normally it is only the rogue in the area anyway, it always felt a little punitive that they were the only guys taking trap damage anyway. Without doing anything special to stuff up the...

Thanks for sharing. My google account is doing something odd, so I can't leave feedback there. I just struck a couple of things. The Faceman - Should it just be called "Face"? - Possible Psychopath says: You have resistance to psychic damage (if it exists), as well as any effect that would...

Why not go oldschool and use one of those monsters that pretends to be the floor? Trappers I think they are called. The pics of them are awful in an awesome way. For extra DM dickitry, the Lurker Above is a good option in the antechamber.