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What most gamers don't understand, but game designers/math heads do, is AC calculates damage. Let me explain... if you're only hitting 50% of the time you calculate your damage output by dividing your average damage dice total in half. Make sense? In your description you talk about how a...

Neither am I, but at the same time I do like to have my encounters handy. The only solution I've come up with was when I started my first 4e Campaign about 8 years ago or so: * Break each encounter into a single page whenever possible * Label each encounter accordingly * Summarize stats, skills...

It takes 10gp and 1 hour. Basically, you get your Familiar back after a short rest which matches the rest of a Warlock's power cooldowns.

*This post contains SPOILERS for the Starter Set* Our first 5e campaign was the Starter Set with the pregen characters. Then we upgraded those characters when the PHB was released. There are undead in that module and there's one funny story that got us all interested in a "Walking Dead" type...

Turd World immigration disagrees. That's how Rhodesia became Zimbabwe.

Any thoughts? Yes. Remove it. Often what makes a campaign setting unique is not simply what's allowed by what isn't allowed. Saying no means there are boundaries that simply are not crossed, making certain choices more difficult and forcing everyone (and not just the players) to make the...

Then play a Battlemaster or Monk.

You are correct and this is why I feel the need to look down my nose at these new backgrounds, especially when this background is simply telling the player to pick their own skills and tools. The ONLY backgrounds I feel should be added are those that are campaign and world specific, because...

I really want both to win, but I had to vote for the Paladin because it has three great subclasses that are unique in their own right and VERY playable. I've played in two different campaigns with Paladins so far and one campaign that had two Paladins. The subclasses of Paladin, along with the...

Owning all three and playing in two of the three, I would say go for Princes of the Apocalypse (PotA). Here's why: 1) Meant to be a follow up: PotA is meant to be your 2nd adventure and carry the group through to a full campaign. It's assumed you start the adventure as an experienced group...

Our DM has changed the way CR works and added "Legendary" to all single creature encounters. The way it works is like this: * Take the total number of attuned items in the party and divide by the number of characters. Add that to the Challenge Rating * All single Creatures get at least 1...

Just change a few things, tailor some of the items and monsters to fit the party. That's usually enough to throw them off the trail. I've run "The Return to the Keep on the Borderlands" for over 20 years since 2nd Edition. I've modified the adventure slightly every time, though I still think...

Not having my PHB at work is very upsetting =( Depending on the Dragon's Wis Save, something as simple as a Bestow Curse spell could incapacitate a Dragon or facilitate its incapacitation by imposing Disadvantage on specific saves. When cast as a 5th level spell there is no more Concentration...

We called that 3e build the Diplomancer. That's one school of magic that didn't make it into later editions.

I've run a game with 10 people and there are huge problems that appear in large groups. Typically, the problem with large groups comes down to: Too much Familiarity Because there's so many people, you need to think like you're in a convention hall and DM as if the players don't know each other...

It's actually good that someone is bringing this up, and it's mentioned in Boxed Texted in the DMG when describing monsters, levels, and encounters. The specific mention is the Rakshasa, which has spell immunity to all spells that any party of equal level could cast. This goes against the...

I've been playing a Warlock for quite some time (since about 3 months after the Start Set released) and our group has advanced slowly but steadily. Currently, we're in the middle of 14th level with lots of magic items attuned to each character. I chose my character for the schtick more than...

Hobgoblins - Archers, Warriors, high AC, Martial Advantage means more damage, and Leadership acts like "Bless" allowing low-CR troops to hit reliably. In our current campaign the DM made sure we ran out of higher level spells, and they entered in groups of 10. and then we faced a Hobgoblin war...

We changed the damage rules to add exhaustion when you're dropped to zero hit points or when a creature is forced out of a shape-changed form. This greatly limits the effectiveness of low-level healing spells like Healing Word and Wild Shape temp hit points, which was intentional. Also, if...

If you really want an "unfathomable horror" then you shouldn't spend any time defining it. Otherwise it wouldn't be unfathomable. Instead, write down a bunch of cheese slogans and quotes for your character to say whenever a certain event occurs. Think of Ron Burgundy when he says, "By the...