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1 minute casting time for a 1 minute concentration spell makes this spell nearly useless for combat. If that's what you intended, cool, but if not reconsider either casting time (1 action) or duration (1 hour concentration).

2.5 year, multi-DM, multi-PC per player campaign that has run for 99 game sessions: Of the 19 characters played in 10 or more sessions 7 have multi-classed. (There are another dozen or so characters played in less than 10 game sessions). The most common "dip" is cleric 1 by three different...

This is exactly what we do.

This. Also ... it's an 8th level spell. It should be really powerful. It will be used 1/day at most. Let the players' toys work. That'd be my ruling.

I've listened to episodes 137, 138 and 139. Super detailed ... precise ... dare I say pedantic? A large segment of ENWorld will love this stuff.

The PCs in our home game recently killed an adult white dragon and have indicated they are planning to skin the dragon to take trophies. I want to make this more interesting and potentially more rewarding. With that in mind I've decided that they can use parts of the dragon's corpse to make...

I'm wondering why the three spellcasters wasted their time with the other spells when they could each cast banishment in an 8th level slot and target 5 PCs each ... 3 saves each. The entire party probably would be at home relaxing. :D

After 86 game sessions over 2+ years, 3 DMs sharing the duties for a couple of dozen characters we have a handful of "name level" characters (three 11th level, four 10th level) and the closest thing to "assuming responsibility" is that the PCs jointly own and operate an adventurers guild. No...

I'm curious to know what fundamental assumptions are present in 5e that did not exist in OD&D and AD&D that make things so very different?

Variant resting rules: PCs must overcome two or more medium+ (or hard+) difficulty encounters after a long or short rest before they can take a short rest. PCs must overcome six or more medium+ (or hard+) difficulty encounters after a long rest before they can take another long rest. PCs may...

Sword Coast Solutions: a band of adventurers for hire that occasionally do good, but mostly just do not evil in exchange for money.

My table has been using an alternative initiative system for almost two years. I didn't like how cyclical initiative encouraged tons of metagaming and "pixel bitching" with regard to movement, perfect action, etc. on each person's turn. Our system: 0. New round begins (reset "per round" things...

Level 8 characters that cannot reliably bypass the vampire's damage resistance will have a very difficult time. I will be surprised if you don't have at least one PC death if the vampire is "smart" (using the darkness to retreat and regenerate, legendary actions to grapple, bite and move without...

Thanks! No, I did not draw by hand. I heard about the Ripley Scrolls on Ken and Robin Talk about Stuff podcast. Did a GIS and found several photographs of Ripley Scrolls. I saved this image, resized to print on multiple pages, cut them up, taped them together and then "abused" the scroll with...

Don't play with that guy again ... ever. Start at 1st level for your first game. If you're worried about PC death give the PCs hp equal to 2nd or 3rd level characters. Don't script the game. Don't assume success or failure for any particular action (including that of your NPCs and monsters)...

9 or 10 hours.

Oops. Well, not RetConning that. Good catch. Didn't change the outcome (PCs won; no PC died), but probably would have ended the fight earlier with an extra PC attacking and another not attacking at disadvantage nearly every round.

Session 2 So ... they didn't complete as much as I expected and didn't long rest in the dungeon. One of our players who was missing last week joined the group with a new PC, a half elf rogue (3)/bard (2). In game story: she stayed outside and guarded the camp while the more accomplished...

The room is still "totally fictionless" and has been very amusing for me. Ald, the barbarian, tried the "drive a spike in the floor" trick - I called for ability checks: STR DC 15 (easy for him) and DEX DC 15 (not so easy). He failed. The spike went sliding around the floor, bounced off the...