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This is interesting, billd91, thanks for the input. They were a hundred-plus miles away from the destination. Can I ask if this is usually how you handle a mishap?

All fantastic responses so far, many thanks!

Uh. . . freaking genius. Diabolical. But genius.

So, like the title says, the party rolled a mishap trying to teleport to a location which would enable them to sneak into a stone giant shaman's fortress. That location is about 500 yards from the fortress proper which is surrounded by seven tribes of stone and hill giants numbering over two...

Extremely helpful, thanks so much!

Thanks so much for all of the tremendously helpful input, everyone! It's truly appreciated. Seems like we'll be able to run it without needing to modify the encounter. This is all incredibly helpful!

Just like the title says, the party split up and now they're looking at a 2v2 fight against a couple of Banshees (CR5). All the numbers say that they should be ok but I'm worried about them failing their saves on the Banshee's wail, thus dropping them immediately to 0 hp. Yes, they were rash...

So, the party wizard grabbed the cleric and Dimension Door'd into a large sphere beneath a mage college. They're both level 11. The sphere is the physical manifestation of a wrinkle/anomaly in the Weave. This wrinkle has been trying to right itself for millennia which has resulted in the sphere...

Just want to thank everyone for all of the tremendous input! It’s been invaluable. Please keep it going, the conversation is opening up my noob eyes to all sorts of possibilities.

Looking for some input on how you DM's justify in-game mechanics or magical effects that some npc's may have, but aren't listed in the PHB? For ex., you want your BBEG to appear in hologram/projected form before the pc's and kill one of his own minions with Power Word: Kill. His projected image...

This is all excellent advice. Many thanks, everybody. Going to look into combining the alternate rest rules with creating much more of a time crunch to see how that changes the nature of their combat encounters overall.

Excellent point. A bit off-topic for the thread but any suggestions on how to discourage shorts rests outside of having random encounters interrupt them? I think that's another issue. . . I'm letting them rest too often.

The idea would be that it would last until your next rest.

This is great point, Flamestrike. Unfortunately my group and I can only play for a max of three hours, usually two, a week. This can make it tough to get enough encounters in to tax their resources so I wind up bumping the CR on the few encounters they do have. Not working great so far, admittedly.

Thanks for the clarification, Stalker0. So you track the crits until the bonus dmg occurs, then it lasts until the next short rest at which point the cycle begins again. All good questions, ccs. In terms of fun, I think this would be a blast and that the PC would love it. That said, regarding...

Genius. Elegant, simple, and in keeping with the 5e mechanics. Many thanks for the input, Stalker0, very much appreciated. Just a couple of questions. . . is advantage on all melee attacks for this PC for a maybe two full combats too much, do you think? Also, the chances of 5 crits between two...

I'd like to give the 9th level Vengeance paladin in my party a legendary sword that uses the Devour the Weak strength-stealing mechanic of Craven Edge, a homebrew item given to a player in Critical Role. Craven Edge It will be a +1 weapon for now. However, as this is a good-aligned sentient...

Many thanks, everyone, for all of the input. This has given me a number of options to work with. Very much appreciated!

Thanks very much for the replies thus far! Very much appreciated.

Like the title says, I'd love to optimize a dude like this Shadow Warrior from this Warhammer cinematic. However, I don't care much about the ranged so I'd prefer not to go into feats or a fighting style to support ranged. https://youtu.be/2iO9cGopQq0?t=3m2s Rather, I want to be an insanely...