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As a player: a DM had an NPC ally that was leading us to our objective, but Indiana Jones style, she betrayed us. The moment of her betrayal was the scariest part, because it was in the middle of a pivotal battle with demons, and her betrayal divided the (already small) party of three into me...

Currently running: A 5e Campaign set in Forgotten Realms following from Lost Mine of Phandelver (complete) into the Hoard of the Dragon Queen (half-complete) and hopefully leading into Rise of Tiamat. Four players (Paladin, Cleric, Wizard, Rogue) all of whom are currently 5th level. Currently...

I suspect the monk would be a good secondary tank rather than primary one; I'm about to start as a player in a campaign with a bard, cleric, monk, and ranger. The cleric (tempest domain) is planning to be the tanky, wade-into-the-fray type, and between the cleric and bard they figure they have...

Unfortunately, this feels like one more instance where there are two legitimate sides and without a dual or ambiguous system, one side always feels shunted out of the picture. The DMG tried to make this as ambiguous as possible with the estimated values of magic items, but I agree that for...

So far I'm pretty much playing it "by the book", but the magic item creation options are looking pretty incredible.

I threw my meager votes behind a few. Starting with my least hoped for and leading on: Birthright. Had never seen a darn thing about it until I stumbled onto Harbinger of Doom's blog entry about it. In reality, I'd probably never run a campaign in Birthright, but the idea of it (every PC is...

Really, really tough to say what're the "gems" of my collection. A brief self-history might be in order here: my parents (and grandfather before them) owned and ran a bookstore for 41 years (and would still if not for Amazon!), so I've always had a love of books. Ironically, because my parents...

That is an excellent question! I would also like to know the answer to that :)

I like my players to have truly heroic characters. I tell them that I want them to have a "by-the-book" style roll-up, though in practice they know I often allow one more re-roll. In reality, I don't think I'd let a player out of the gate with more than one negative score (i.e. even two 9s...

I am also somewhat curious about this! RHoD is, as you say, a "celebrated module."

Someone playing with only the basic rules, or who is with a DM not allowing feats, or who doesn't concentrate on pole arms but happens to use one :)

Exactly. Theoretically you're actually less likely to get attacks of opportunity with reach weapons since you only get them when enemies leave your threat area! (Without the feat, anyway.)

If you have the Starter Set (i.e. you've got the Phandelver arc, you just aren't inspired by it) it could be fun to still use Phandalin as a base of operations, but just change the quest. Maybe the PCs aren't involved in the hunt for Wave Echo Cave? The Cragmaw Castle arc could be fleshed out a...

You're right that I ditched FR for 4th; my group tried 4e, but I ended up doing a homebrew for the entirety of its lifespan. Because the novels and games are set in what I presume to be the current incarnation of the Realms, I think they're gambling they'll survive that wave. This is a very...

Admittedly, what I have to say is just more unique, idiosyncratic individual experience, but I'll throw me two cents in! I came to D&D just as 3e was ramping up. At the time, the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting guide was coming out, and the Greyhawk Gazetteer was nowhere to be found...

I just realized that I should specify: my above post talks about what might be the differences amongst Tolkien's mythical creations, and is not necessarily reflective of how D&D handles things. D&D has made some significant changes to the lore/legacy/mythos, and I can absolutely see how the...

I think you're right about this. Tolkien goes to great lengths to commission a world where the differences between the sentient races have been a cause for enmity and fear (rather than, for example, the Star Trek idea of IDIC). That's not to say that Tolkien's races aren't designed to work in...

HOTDQ SPOILERS AHEAD: Just one brief update to this thread. Without going into too much detail, I would absolutely recommend letting PCs have some levels under their belts before starting HotDQ. It has worked very well through all three episodes my group has done so far. My group's fifth level...

Just as an additional vote, if you are always going to play it with them (i.e. if there's always someone who can do a lot of reading for narrative/story purposes) then I'm throwing my vote behind Mice & Mystics, as it may be a really fun one too. (I see at least one other person has already...