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In SRD (I think it is the right name for thar free-distritubuted stuff?) that I'm looking at he only has Breastplate. With Full Plate, I'd say there is even more reason to keep the shield. Shortsword or not, Breath likely deals more damage, so surviving longer is pretty much a very important...

No, I'm counting double longsword attacks only. Dropping a shield for 1d6+3 extra damage doesn't sound like a good idea to me unless carving up some soft target. An opportunity which PCs probably won't give to a not very mobile BBEG. Giving him adventurer level(s) was one of the ideas that...

This was one of my considerations, but I still went through with it after talking to the players. Most of them were excited about it, some of the more experienced ones expressed mild concern. So far it feels mostly good with some unexpected characters that we are having fun with. And while...

@DEFCON 1 Thanks for the reply. The reason I'm bringing this up is that I don't yet have experience with PCs higher than level 3. They are now, and they are probably getting to level 5 by the time they get to that BBEG. I have had hard time assesing their capabilities before (1st level parties...

I do describe results of attack, players learn the effects of the weapons/spells that they are familiar with and can compare the usual results for the dice roll that they see and given description. Sometimes they make mistakes in reading this, but ... why wouldn't the characters do that too?

A bit about the game so far: Homebrew: The setting is a post-magical-apocalypse world. A few centuries back the epic heroes of the world lost to the Really Big Bad Evil Guy, and most of sentient life was eradicated from the material plane. Now the nations of the world are rebuilding themselves...

Recently back to DnD. I've last played/dmed 3e over a decade ago. So far I'm loving 5e. I'm running a homebrew campaign. We are using the 3 main books only, to keep it simple. Players are a mix of total newbies to DnD and moderately experienced guys (though everyone has experience with other...