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It seems almost too obvious, but wouldn't the easiest way to keep things balanced be to place a quantity of gold equivalent to the XP of the creatures guarding it?

Robert J. Schwalb is credited as a writer in the original 5e Player's Handbook. Maybe they've brought him back to help write "Midway."

I must be missing something. Why does WotC need to hire a licensee to hire a sublicensee made up of three different companies partnering together to hire somebody else to actually make the translation? Seems like that pie's getting sliced awful thin.

If you're going to count each unit as one creature, wouldn't it be more direct to use the stats of the creatures that make up the unit?

You're leaving out an option: * Change your mind: You're the DM. If you don't want to run a game with monstrous characters, then don't. It's right there in the book: You're obviously not on board with them playing these races, so just say you made a mistake by initially letting them pick from...

Obviously, it would be smarter for the dragons to stay out of range, which makes them a bad example, perhaps. They might be able to just repeatedly strafe the orcs. With a flying speed of 80 feet, however, the orcs probably could still attack with their javelins (range 30/120) at disadvantage...

Example: Who would win—100 orcs or 5 young red dragons? Unit 1: 100 orcs (15 x 100 = 1500 HP) Unit 2: 5 dragons (178 x 5 = 890 HP) Orcs win initiative and the sky goes dark as a flurry of javelins (+5 to hit) is hurled at the dragons. The orcs roll a 13, high enough to hit the dragons' 18 AC...

It seems like there's a cleaner option that would balance itself automatically: Form units of however many identical creatures you want, in any formation. They occupy the normal amount of space (i.e. 5' x 5' per Medium creature), but you can abstract the units of area (i.e. up to 100 Medium...

If I understand correctly, BR is not like HP. The goal is not kill all the enemies by wearing units down to zero. In fact, "a unit’s BR can be reduced by being attacked, going as low as 0 or a negative number." The purpose of the combat is entirely to reduce morale and then force morale checks...

I understand the thinking here, and I like the intuitiveness. (A 5' square holds one Medium creature, so a 100' square holds a 20 x 20 formation of Medium creatures.) As everyone has mentioned, though, the math doesn't seem like it leaves any room for chance. A 400+ modifier to a d20 roll is...

Dungeon Magazine issue 213 had a conversion of Tomb of Horrors to D&D Next (the 5e playtest rules) done by Chris Perkins. You might want to check that out if you can't wait for Tales from the Yawning Portal. (It treats poison traps with varying amounts of poison damage.)

Have you seen this? https://www.dropbox.com/s/bmw8tyyuoqeba1a/Star%20Wars%20-%20D%26D%205th%20Edition%20Conversion.pdf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/wkuurq5fje9kkp0/Star%20Wars%205e%20Starships%20Expansion.pdf?dl=0 Sent from my iPhone using EN World mobile app

Fight Club 5th Edition and Game Master 5th Edition for iOS are both being actively updated, and they're pretty great. They include all the content available under the OGL, and multiple community projects have translated all the other core books into XML files that can be imported into the app...

Regarding a requirement for characters to actually sleep… the closest the rules come to addressing this is in the description of Constitution checks (PHB 177): Now, it says "might," and it doesn't specify any particular consequence. The rulings that various people have described of requiring...

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Nitpick, but Hunter Sharks are in the 5e Monster Manual.

There is a new iOS app called Encounter+ specifically for combat management. It's not quite as full-featured as Game Master, but it can use the same "DnDAppFiles," and it has some unique features (like random encounter generation and per-round initiative rolling). The developer is responding to...

The chart you're looking for is Experience Points by Challenge Rating on page 9 of the Monster Manual: Challenge XP 0 0 or 10 1/8 25 1/4 50 1/2 100 1 200 2 450 3 700 4 1,100 5 1,800 6 2,300 7 2,900 8 3,900 9 5,000 10 5,900 11 7,200...

In the list of alignments (to filter encounters), "lawful nuetral" and "chaotic nuetral" are misspelled. When editing NPC's, you can enter free text for the HP value instead of a number. Sent from my iPhone using EN World mobile app