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Keep the initiative running - don't stop and reroll. If the players have their characters just look at the door, not opening it, have the characters hear muffled voices, moving furniture, sounds of running, and so on. Just because the characters stand in the passage doing nothing does not mean...

Extinguish the candle, apprentice, so that we may See. In my experience, the most misapplied rule is "disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks in dim light". If I had a dollar for every time a player has asked "why am I at disadvantage, I have darkvision?" I'd be able to afford a steak dinner.

I'd vote for Hieroneous, Boccob and Iuz.

For players - "Learn the rules." From a recent game where we are over 20 sessions in but one player still doesn't know how to make an attack roll.

That's an interesting assumption. 8 rounds of combat total between short rests? I've seen games with 8 combats between rests. That's also assuming you never give any party members bardic inspiration. How do they feel about that?

I'm not sure I'd use "clear goal" and "Curse of Strahd" in the same sentence. The game I played in was just characters wandering around at random, being beaten up outside towns and ripped off by merchants in towns. The closest we got to a clear goal was helping with the revolution in one of the...

I'm the other way around. I wish I could ban digital devices at the table. It seems that three quarters of every turn is scrolling on the smartphone or tablet. I also look around the tables I play at and always see at least one screen showing a game or social media site. No wonder turns take so...

You are allowed to use more than one sheet of paper. Seriously, use more. Use lots. Use them to write down what your talents actually do, instead of asking "What does brutal criticals do" every. single. -ing. session. Use counters or beads or stones to track resources (rages, sorcery points...

My problem with BG3 is that I am the only person in a game who hasn't played it. The other players keep saying memes and stories and laughing, and I don't get the joke.

I implemented the "Drink a potion as a bonus action or action" rule simply to encourage players to use more potions. My first 5E game ended with the characters hoarding massive numbers of potions. The players said that it it was a choice between using your Action to attack or cast a spell or...

Hmmmm having tried it just now, the image quality is noticably better than a few weeks ago. The characters have four fingers and the arrows line up. Perhaps Saracenus feeding it archery images helped? :)

DALL-E 3 as part of Bing Chat Enterprise.

How to read maps. How to do quick maths (though Cribbage also taught me a lot of maths skills). How to play nice in a group. What a Bohemian Earspoon is.

How are you getting all this to look right? Every time I've asked DALL-E for art (we have an account through work) I get misaligned weapons (like bows with two or three arrows nocked), strange numbers of fingers, limb misalignment and other oddities.

Yep. Model a real-time situation with a turn-based game is always going to throw up strange interactions. I'd have all the turned ghouls on the same initiative all move at once, and describe it as the entire mob scrambling backward in fear, frantically pushing past their non-turned allies...

Classes are not personalities. Also, nothing says all wizards have to be the same or all warlocks have to be the same. You could say something like "Fighters trained by the Warrior Society of Someplace City all hate warlocks, because the Warrior Society indoctrinate all their students to...

100% this. Giff spelljammers are cannons with a ship attached, so Giff mounts will be cannons with wheels attached. Compensating for anything? No, I don't think so. Why do you ask?

ARRGGHH! That shademother is horrible. I didn't not expect that to appear as I scrolled down the page.

I'm leaning towards reading the rule as "…you can cast one of your Wizard cantrips…", as an extension of the " know and can prepare for each class individually" part of multiclassing. That way the only exception is mending, which I would rule still needs 10 rounds to cast (meaning the caster...

One way of dealing with this is to enforce costs (including time) and consequences. If a particular action takes 10 minutes to do and costs a resource then the players can have their characters attempt the skill as many times as they like, provided they spend the time and the resource. GM: The...