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Its is rather sad; i thought sword coast legends was a decent game as long as you didn't expect it to be likebthe d&d 5th edition table top rpg. The computer game rpg genre has more focus on combat and thus classes which relied on limited resources (ie regained only during a rest) tend not to...

I based a campaign partly on star trek: deep space 9. Doppelgangers are the main threat, causing political tension between separate factions which erupted in open warfare. The players were tasked with finding the doppelgangers within the factions and stopping the tension from becoming open...

My group has taken about 15 sessions (4 hours each) to reach castle ravenloft. We're currently level 10 and we expect to need 4-5 more sessions in the castle itself. So roughly 20 x 4 = 80 hours of play. I once suggested to take a one week holiday together with some friends to play a whole...

Charisma represents the force of your personality. It also represents likeability, believability etc. Intimidation represents threat (not just physical threat) to do something nasty against the person being talked to. This could take the form of beating the person, reveiling a harmful secret...

One way to use int (investigation) is if a player is stating his character is actively searching for traps using the classic 11-foot pole. Albert einstein (investigation) vs Robin Hood (perception) is a good comparison. Unfortunately the bbc sherlock is very good at both perception (noticing...

Perception is about noticing things at a glance; you use your senses to see, hear, smell, taste etc the world around you. Traps which have telltale signs that are noticable to the senses can be spotted using perception. Note that your senses don't tell you how the trap works. Pressure plate...

Any creature (monsters, beasts, npc, player character etc) gets one action, one bonus action, one reaction until the start of its next turn (movement is not any of those). A nilbog can use its reaction to prevent it from dying but a single, individual nilbog has only one reaction until the start...

A "standard" ability check doesn't add your proficiency modifier. This goes for all ability checks (including initiative roll) unless an ability says otherwise. Skill checks, saving throws and attack rolls add proficiency only if the character is trained in the skill, saving throw or weapon...

Therebare somentricks to increase the horror element in dnd: 1) use monsters that can infect, disease or drainbthe target doing semi-permanent damage. 2) make cure spells such as remove curse and major restoration use very limited resources. 3) give the party lots of weak peasants, commoners etc...

Fear can be caused by a lot of things; in the case of horror there are still some options available: weakness against the super natural (you are not strong enough to beat them), corruption of your moral compas (ie you become that which you hate most), loosing your sanity (Lovecraft was a master...

What i liked about 4th edition was that playing a monster according to his strengths almost automatically succeeded in playing a monster according to it fluff. Playing strahd effectively is a skill that the dm needs. If there are dms struggling with it then the book doesn't do enough to help...

And it would be even cooler if there is some trap, riddle or puzzle attached to those numbers carved into the floor.

Strahd can be a very nasty villain to fight, but if a party can take him on in a party vs strahd situation they are quite likely to come out on top (5th level or higher) especially if the party still has all its resources. However, a straight up fight is not the style thatvstrahd should employ...

Alternatively you could use the meta-game against them byvdeliberately leaving out some numbers. Think of room numbers in modern hotels where the first digit is the floor number; this means that the room numbers are not contiguous but could go from 325 to 401 (and note that 400 itself is...

Also note that polymorph is a concentration spell and you need to make a constitution save if you (even in polymorphed form) take damage. I find that the spell is more effective on party members than yourself. Also note that polymorphing an enemy into a tortoise or newt (watch for the monty...

Well, we didnt detect the orcs as we were sleeping in the ruined inn. In any case a party of 5 level 2 characters have no hope of taking on 20+ orcs out in the open. In a defensive position, maybe (and that is a big maybe).

Only something which "attacks" you will have to bypass the mirror image. Something which provides a save is not an attack, although you could argue that single target save spells still need to pick a target.

Opportunity attacks do occur, but most certainly less frequently than in 3d edition. In5th edition oa is only triggered by moving out of reach of an enemy. The enemy can use its reaction to make a single attack with a melee weapon. Things that dont trigger oa's are: * casting a spell when next...

If you take a look at the stories written by HP Lovecraft (for example) you will note that he rarely describes the thing/monster/object that makes people "scared out of their mind". The theme of Fear and resulting Madness due to people's imagination running away with them is a recurring theme of...

Could be a nice adventure hook though; a Necromancer NPC who would be interested in the body parts he has collected and will actually pay him to get more. Making the Necromancer obviously Evil is a sure way to see if the party would "fall for the temptations of evil" or stick to their alignment...