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    D&D 5E [CAMPAIGN] Out of the Abyss – New GM [SPOILERS]

    22nd session: Only two regular players were able to make it, so during battle Vanya and Athut were controlled by me. Day 261-270 (skipped) The party travelled to Araj, fighting some monsters (random encounters, narrated not fought) in the tunnels and debating the visions they received in...
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    D&D 5E [CAMPAIGN] Out of the Abyss – New GM [SPOILERS]

    21st session: Only three regular players were able to make it, so during battle Muumas was controlled by me. But another friend joined us again as "Cy". Day 240 The party went to the library of the future and used the Stonespeaker Crystal to ask the following question: "How to kill/banish...
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    D&D 5E [CAMPAIGN] Out of the Abyss – New GM [SPOILERS]

    20th session: Day 238 Muumas went to see Ulthar, who was very interested in her motives and stories and gave her a Stonespeaker Crystal. In the meantime Athut, Tyus and Vanya searched the library of the present for clues on the demonic incursion as well as personal matters. They met the eco of...
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    D&D 5E [CAMPAIGN] Out of the Abyss – New GM [SPOILERS]

    19th session: A friend of ours joined us again as "Cy". Day 217-236 (skipped) After ensuring that everybody in camp is healthy again the party continued on their search for Gravenhollow. After 10 more days the party found eight dead Kuo-Toas. They probably were killed by...
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    D&D 5E [CAMPAIGN] Out of the Abyss – New GM [SPOILERS]

    Player character description (short): Muumas Stronghorn (new character): female minotaur, barbarian (path of the wild soul), 40 years old, 2,5m and 300kg+, background: hermit, favourite weapons: great axe and her horns, personality: calm, level-headed, patient, does not talk much, is hard to...
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    D&D 5E [CAMPAIGN] Out of the Abyss – New GM [SPOILERS]

    18th session: Day 206 The party left Mantol-Derith and reunited with their troops. As they were preparing for the search for Gravenhollow Eeria heard her father through a sending spell. He asked her to come back and help her tribe. Conflicted Eeria said goodbye to the other PCs. Eldeth gave her...
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    D&D 5E [CAMPAIGN] Out of the Abyss – New GM [SPOILERS]

    17th session: A friend of ours joined for this session as the Zhentarim mercenary "Cy Amakiir" (high elf eldritch knight). Day 205 The female deep gnome introduced herself as Gabble Dripskillet. She invited the PCs into the svirfneblin quarters and offered them lodging, food and ulitmately...
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    D&D 5E [CAMPAIGN] Out of the Abyss – New GM [SPOILERS]

    16th session: A friend of ours joined for this session as the Zhentarim mercenary "Cy Amakiir" (high elf eldritch knight). Day 184-204 (skipped) The party left Gauntlgrym with their troops and some dwarven wine to sell in Mantol-Derith. During their journey through the Underdark they dealt...
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    D&D 5E Survivor 5e Plants - Shambling mound composts the competition!

    Assassin Vine 21 Awakened Shrub 16-2=14 Awakened Tree 22 Corpse Flower 24 Myconid Adult 22 Myconid Sovereign 2 Needle Lord 18 Needle Spawn 18 Shambling Mound 25 Shrieker 28+1=29 Thorn Slinger 18 Treant 27 Tri-flower Frond 12 Vine Blight 6 Violet Fungus 22 Yellow Musk Creeper 16
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    D&D 5E [CAMPAIGN] Out of the Abyss – New GM [SPOILERS]

    15th session: Day 161-182 (skipped) Some shopping was done in Waterdeep and the party visited Veldyn in his rented apartment. There Veldyn introduced the wizard and agent of the Harpers, Lord Zelraun Roaringhorn, to the party. Tyus played some dragonchess with him and lost badly. In the morning...
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    D&D 5E [CAMPAIGN] Out of the Abyss – New GM [SPOILERS]

    As mentioned before, we took a little break (4 sessions) from OotA and played through some homebrew content, Reef of Madness and a chapter of Ghost of Saltmarsh. Ebert, the giant boar of Eeria, grew into a juvenile form. All PCs are now on level 7. Also we introduced "lingering injuries"...
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    D&D 5E [CAMPAIGN] Out of the Abyss – New GM [SPOILERS]

    We have been playing the short adventure Reef of Madness as a side quest during our break from OotA (tweaked for higher levels). The player of our wizard/sorcerer Veldyn wanted to change character so Veldyn departed from the party to find/see his long lost mother in Waterdeep. The same day the...
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    D&D 5E [CAMPAIGN] Out of the Abyss – New GM [SPOILERS]

    The player of Shrimp decided to leave the table. Shrimp stayed in Waterdeep, will travel the Sword Coast and maybe enter Blingdenstone soon again. As a replacement, our many-times guest player Athut will join us indefinitely. Player character description (short): Athut: male svirfneblin...
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    D&D 5E [CAMPAIGN] Out of the Abyss – New GM [SPOILERS]

    14th session: Only three players were able to make it, so during battle Shrimp was controlled by me. But another friend joined us again as "Athut". Day 70-76 The party was led to the cave of the former pudding where the svirfneblin were starting to make statue, depicting the great victory over...
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    D&D 5E [CAMPAIGN] Out of the Abyss – New GM [SPOILERS]

    13th session: Only three players were able to make it, so during battle Shrimp was controlled by me. But another friend joined us again as "Athut". Day 61 The party was called to the table by Kazook. Chipgrin Goldwhisker made the city of Blingdenstone an offer for an alliance against the...
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    D&D 5E Player roles that no longer exist, and why

    True. But not every dungeon has a secret door ;-) I personally don't have a problem with seeing the maximum reach of the dungeon but I get that it breaks the immersion for some people. (I should add, we put blank papers over the areas we haven't yet discovered, so we dont know the dungeon...
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    "Your Class is Not Your Character": Is this a real problem?

    I think you misunderstood or I didn't make my point well enough (english is not my first language). Let me clear things up: 1. Nothing bad with playing a death domain cleric the way described above. But stating that it's the only way is wrong imo. And that's what she stated. 2. Nothing wrong...
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    "Your Class is Not Your Character": Is this a real problem?

    We are going to start a new campaign and one of my players told me her cleric won't heal other players, because the WotC books state that a domain of the death cleric sees "death as a part of life". Therefore no healing for the group. Also she wanted to tell the paladin that he has to fit his...
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    D&D 5E Player roles that no longer exist, and why

    During the last campaign I played (ToA) our GM expected us to map EVERYTHING. And it was awful. Just horrible. When 2-3 people just watch the DM for 10min as she tells one other player "left, right, 45 degree left, 10ft. further then a 90 degree angle to the right".... oh man.... it was awful...
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    D&D 5E [CAMPAIGN] Out of the Abyss – New GM [SPOILERS]

    12th session: Only three players were able to make it, so during battle Eeria was controlled by me. But another friend joined us as deep gnome rogue "Athut". Day 60 The party killed the second hostile Galeb Duhr, and then a third one. During the fight a deep gnome rogue came to the party's...
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