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As a DM you are responsible for the tone of the adventure and rewarding the style of gameplay you want to encourage in the game- in your case it sounds like murderhobo. In this situation it doesn't matter what the PCs do they are railroaded into a confrontation no matter what- barter with the...

The druid has been one of the most effective classes in our last 3-4 campaigns and at our table is far more popular than clerics. As both a DM and a player I find it one of the most versatile classes in the game. Now if you were talking about the badly designed abomination that is the 5E warlock...

I think lost Mines is bit of a trap in that regard actually, the BBEG no one seems to have seen/ heard of through mmost of it? Reading the module and making him more prominant improves the game immensely

Yes, that would have been the perfect send off. I'd hate to think how many pcs old school expanding fireballs got over the year. I still prefer them to the modern precision strike version

We started in 1983 while at high school. We never played that lots of henchmen/hirlings style that Gygax etc did. We have 4-5 players 1 pc each. Our group shrunk when we hit uni. For the next 3 years I ran with my brother and best mate and they ended up with 1 henchman each from about 5th level...

I tailor a we bit, do make lists of items I'd like to put in the campaign (whether or not they are found is another matter) but also roll randomly. Often items I think someone would want are given to some else entirely). My Pathfinder/3E fan who is new to the group still struggles with the...

"I've never understood why this adventure was so popular. T1 was excellent; the rest was an incomplete pastiche that required a lot of work to make it into something coherent." 100% agree. Have used T1 several times to kick of campaigns and it has always been memorable- last time being to run...

My only issue with the whole situation is the DM feeling they need to telegraph how they want to party to resolve the situation. Maybe the necromancer has already shown a tendency to disregard other life so killing the helpless acolytes is a fair and reasonable action for them to do (from the...

I am like the original poster in that I have set a weekly amount of xp, doesn’t matter what you do, kill monsters & take their stuff or sit round quoting Monty Python, simply turning up= getting the weekly base award. I do reward story awards on top of that and also do add combat bonuses at...

Had our car attacked by a few as a kid at a picnic stop on one of the alpine passes- can't recall if at Arthur's Pass or on our way to Milford but they had a fondness for the rubber seals around windows in older cars and car aerials too IIRC. Stormdale

The kea is quite a large parrot (world's only alpine parrot) and is about 48cm/20" tall. Tui etc are much smaller. As for bird races not sure if you've included them but the Kereru (wood pidgeon) is another quite large native bird which pre-colonisation times were very common- used to fly in...

It is far more complicated than that on the mainland- dry east coast, hot deserty dry central regions (MacKenzie Country and Central Otago) Alpine (Southern Alps) and west coast is temperate rainforest (3-6 metres of rainfall on west coast vs about 600mm on east, across the Great Divide)...

Sorry, but to me this seems a non event/encounter. Why don't your PCs simply use one or more of the following: spider climb levitate fly Spider climb pc uses pitons if necessary to put guide ropes along walkways and others clip themselves on and move up the path- that's what my guys would do...

I used the Amedio jungle and ignored much of the ToA map- we didn't hex crawl it but ran it more as a narrative based adventure. I decided which of the keyed encounters I wanted them to stumble upon but offered options to different locations after each one. Stormdale

Used to be a time when avoiding unnecessary encounters on the way to fight the BBEG was the key to successful adventuring- it was all about avoiding monsters and stealing their stuff and having as many spells etc ready as possible. Ah, I miss xp for gold rather than combat which has been a big...

Yep, its called being the DM, not wanting to you know, decide stuff then maybe stick to the other side of the table. I'd be punishing players for a 10 x 10 formation anyway, they are too exposed to damage from various traps etc, at least a 5ft gap between each row. A couple of templates and...

We are the same, only 1-2 creatures or treat other more as swarms. It's all about ensuring EVERYONE gets a fair turn/amount of time. Talk to your players and voice your concerns about the time sink 8 creatures attacks are- that's what I did and we came up with a compromise (1 or 2 creatures...

Quickleaf, I like that solution!

My guys “liberated” a couple of vultures and hippogriffs from Feathergale spire and had quite a few aerial adventures. They soon found an important weakness of these animals…22hps. The paladin eventually took mounted combatant feat to protect his mount. I also penalized movement etc due to...

Me getting bored was part of the reason I fast forwarded Pukunui- missed levels 3-5 and went straight to 6, getting rid of the collect the keys and using Withers amulet as the key to open to doors in 77. Stormdale