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The combat encounters were generally very easy and finished in 1 or 2 rounds. This group is a little overpowered for the adventure (suggested for level 7 characters). What made it interesting is the ability to sprinkle in damage here and there (doesn't have to be much) in encounters and from...

Should wrap up on Saturday and I'll post a play report on Sunday.

I DM'd a group through about half of White Plume Mountain last night. I had hoped to complete the full dungeon in one session. I'm a reasonably good DM with 35+ years of playing/DMing D&D. I should have known better. Played for five hours of which about an hour was spent "researching" and...

The fact that See Invisibility is not ritual spell solves the problem.

Some Greyhawk rules to consider: 1. XP for treasure 2. PCs do not get hit dice after 10th level; gain 1 or 2 hp/level depending on class 3. Stronghold, thieves' guild, wizard tower, etc. system for characters of "Name" level 4. Training (and spending money) to level 5. Revised ability score...

All of the above. No clarity in spell description ... rulings, not rules. It's probably more fun for the character to not be manacled. It's a very common trope. Let the players play with their toys and enjoy them.

Her "giant name" was Masella when the PCs met her in the court in my group's game. It didn't matter. They figured her out in less than two encounters across two game sessions.

I guess I'll be the lone voice of support for how this adventure/campaign is written: it's MY Forgotten Realms and MY campaign (well, mine and my co-DMs and players) to run how I (we) want to run it, and the fact that there's not too much detail and expected storyline/outcome is perfect. I love...

Interesting. A couple of thoughts: 1. I think the expenditure of a 4th level spell slot to engage another creature to take up concentration is a good level. It makes it a mid to high level effort before you start freeing up your primary casters' concentration slots. Nice. 2. The 1 action...

Not as bad as the original. The only "do this and you die" that I remember was the sphere of annihilation. Most of the traps do damage instead of insta-kill now, and allow either saving throws to mitigate or skill checks to detect/avoid. I would expect a party of five well-geared 15th level...

Sunless Citadel: start level 1; advance to 3 Forge of Fury: start level 3; advance to 5 Lost Shrine: start level 5; advance to 7 or 8 White Plume Mountain: start level 8 advance to 9th or higher Dead in Thay: "designed for characters of 9th to 11th level" Against the Giants: "designed to be...

Corpsetaker likes necrophilia. I heard him not say it on ENWorld.

I stopped reading this thread at this point and will go no further; it's not necessary. However, a Cloak of Liberace is absolutely necessary in the next game session I DM.

We allow respeccing pretty liberally in our game. Every player has at least 2 PCs; 3 DMs in shared Forgotten Realms game. There's exactly one instance of a disallowed respec that was obviously for powergaming reasons: a paladin got a belt of giant strength and wanted to drop his strength and...

I was a player in our CoS run. Our Tarokka reading placed Strahd in the crypt, and we headed there directly on entering the castle. We had a running battle through the crypt that lasted maybe 10 rounds and then Strahd was dead . . . dead and not coming back. We effectively bypassed the entire...

Because someone in their marketing department heard about "digital" and decided that they needed an App.

Our group does a variation of this. Every round: 0. Basic description of the situation (repeated at the start of each round if we're doing TotM combat - about 40% of the time for us) 1. All players and the DM declare general actions: attack with weapon, cast a spell, use an item, etc. 2. Roll...

Home campaign set in the Sword Coast with 3 DMs sharing the workload we have run: Lost Mines of Phandelver (pretty much as written) Early parts of Out of the Abyss (mostly as written; only got to Sloobludop and Gracklstugh so far) Curse of Strahd (all of it, as written, though we took down...

I'm playing an eldritch knight sword and board dexterity fighter (splash of warlock). At level 9 with mage armor, 20 dex, and shield AC = 20. He also has a ring of protection, so AC is 21. Could easily accomplish the same with sorcerer or even straight fighter.

LIKE: Magic items are truly optional DISLIKE: feat choices in the PHB are woefully unbalanced against each other