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Given the number of things PCs can do in a 6 second turn - move 30 feet, get out a weapon, attack multiple times, reload multiple times, and then be able to cast a spell, being able to stuff some bandages in a wound, and yell at someone to get up doesn't seem that bad. The thing with the the...

In my group of 7 (6 players plus me the GM) there is: 5 PHBs 4 DMGs (maybe 5) 4 MM (maybe 50 2 Volos 1 of everything else. I've got the 3 core books, and Volo's. We've got one player who has everything, and more. He does GM from time to time as well.

It's a wonderful period to set a campaign in.The PCs could easily just be bandits, or dislocated Peasants, and just be caught up in the world changing events going on. Although it could be a politics game, it could also be quite easily a hack and slash game as well. Incorporating aspects of...

Thats some very good chase rules. I'll try using them next time my PCs have to try to catch something. I really like the way the complications work - having a player roll, and being able to use Inspiration to negate are very nice touches. I'll have to play around with them a bit. My PCs tend...

I'm seriously tempted by this Adventure Path, with it's jungles, dinosaurs and other weirdness. Awesome! Not bothered by the fact it's in the Realms either, as somewhere like Chult is suitably isolated that it'd be easy to slip into any campaign without much problem. I haven't bought any of the...

A large part of coming up with an Adventure with either Illithids, or Aboleths is deciding what their motivations actually are. The Illithid in my game was after some where safe, with a food source and was trying to find a Chull nest to use as followers. The fact it was in the Burial Mound the...

Iggwilv's Guide to the Abyss, and all it touches. Iggwilv (who has one of the daftest names in all of D&D) is one of the few female characters of any real importance from the early days of the game. It'd be good to see her have some pride of place. I doubt we'd see a Demononicon again as it's...

I have similar problems with just about any encounter I plan for my PCs. What begins as maybe a single encounter becomes a full session, which then becomes more, as I add layer after layer on to something, or have more and more ideas which then expands the original idea until what was meant to...

I'm running a Wild West themed D&D game at the moment, and Guns are fairly important. There's the usual 6 shooter, rifles, and an assortment of others. I changed the rules from the DMG a bit, as I thought the damage was a little high when compared to other weapons. I've introduced recently the...

It's got Dragons. Lots and lots of Dragons. It's got no Gods. They all left due to some sort of hissy fit involving a flaming mountain or something. But there's Dragons. Its got some dumbass hour glass eyed, golden skinned idiot of a wizard that a lot of people seemed to like for some reason...

Fantastic. Thanks for the quick answer (although I suspect I should have been able to come up with answer if I'd really thought about it.) Bags of Holding do rather make a mockery of any Encumbrance system. I'm slightly regretting giving my PCs one now.

That's an awesome way of doing encumbrance. Clean, simple and easy to use and understand. I'm going to have to put it to my players, and start using it. I've got several Str 8 PCs in my game, carrying far too much stuff, so this might be a good way of getting them to limit what they're...

I've been remarkably restrained with 5E, with only the Core rules (which were a gift from my old boss) and Volo's. I don't feel the need to buy Adventures when there doesn't appear to be much in the way of usable fluff, or crunch in them. I do like getting other schmutter to go with the game...

It works very well when he does do that. He's got a Rapier for close work, a shortbow for long range, a Hand Crossbow and as it's a Wild West D&D game, several pistols for some Magic Bullets, and when making huge amounts of noise isn't an issue. With his bonus action Dash it's amazing how much...

I have mentioned that idea to him, but he likes what the Swashbuckler can do and it fits his character - a fairly stylish 13 year old Half Elf, with a penchant for getting into and out of places fairly quickly. He wasn't impressed with the Thief, Arcane Trickster didn't fit the Character, and he...

Pretty Much, no. He's got a real aversion to getting into combat, despite no Attacks of Opportunity Swashbuckler gives him, and would rather hide and shoot each turn. I usually have to remind him how the Hiding rules work most sessions as well - he'll try to hide behind just about anything...

THere was a very good GM's Word of the Week about them: https://www.gmwordoftheweek.com/home/zxei2ci9gtmemkx8vn88z34psb8kvo that answered (and created) a lot of questions about them, like just how much of the D&D ones are not like the Mythological ones. As for why they're in the 9 Hells, I...

I've got a Swashbuckler in my current campaign - he began as a dual wielder (not with the Feat, just 2 shortswords) and quickly discovered that it felt like a trap - cunning action was a far better use of his bonus action than stabbing someone a second time was. When the players hit 4th level...

It's a fairly hard choice, although Wormy just wins out. It's one of the great shames of RPGs that Trampier never finished it, or that it was ever reprinted. The guys at KoDT did their best to get it back into print, but Trampier wasn't very keen on it happening. The editorials about it in KoDT...

They're both brilliant. I did a similar to Monkey Business 4 way fight in 4th Ed - a giant Monkey, several T-Rexes, and an Orcish Big Game Hunter who was trying to take down the Monkey. The PCs job was to protect the Monkey, even though it didn't really need protecting, and it viewed the PCs as...