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Thanks for sharing your story Rcanine! I'm running session 2 Thursday night. I'm pretty sure I'll have a full 7 again. Sometimes they are hard to steer, but they work together generally well. I am pretty bummed that we don't have the special certs to give out though. It's an in-store event...

My players got up to the 3rd floor and explored most of it already. They just killed the specter in the nursery, but they still think they are trying to save the baby. Half the party thinks the baby is going to be a monster that they will have to kill(they think rose and thorn are vampires). I...

Clearly Gandalf's DM was a visionary who was using E5 rules(not 5E). 5th level magic was the best anyone could get, but he had enough HP to go toe to toe with a Balrog because he had several lifetimes worth of hitpoint gains. The highest level spells we saw were probably Hallucinatory...

Are the intro adventures only available through DMsGuild? Ie. Do I need to buy them?

It's hard to blame people for stereotyping the gypsy culture when that culture goes so far out of its way to ostracize everyone who is not part of said culture. Most of them live in a part of our country far removed from most of the population centers, they try to live their lives off the grid...

I have played plenty of games where the DM had issues focussing on his story/ideas, causing that the players basically just are riding on a train the whole time. He is telling the story TO the players instead of creating the story WITH them. Even so, I have never played with someone who had...

I tend to be a bit soft when it comes to killing players. I am pretty good at balancing encounters to where almost everyone gets beat within an inch of their lives. I usually have a full tables so I can only get through a couple encounters in a night usually. So I try to make one of them pretty...

PCs are pretty much always murder hobos. They either lie constantly to NPCs around them, or they look for the most thinly-veiled excuse to kill things for their treasure and XP. Its a cute idea but I can't imagine the novelty lasting very long. If your neigboring players notice your numbers...

Hey kalani. I saw in your sig you are the RC for western Canada. Any chance you are also in charge of Alaska? Or do you know who is? Our location is isolated so I want our players to be able to earn all the perks they can. Our LC puts in a lot of time working at our LGS so I think maybe he...

Our LGS started Season 4 yesterday. I asked the LC about the certs for the store event and he had NO idea what I was talking about. I guess I'll just add in 2 random uncommon items. Close enough.

Our first season 4 table is so odd. 2 elven wizards and 1 human wizard, dragonborn cleric, half elf Paladin, 2 half elves a rogue and a ranger, Not at all a representative sample. First night went well though playersnmade it to the third floor but havent finished explorin it.

What items are actually being changed in store? I havent talked with my LC yet.

Thanks for the input. Our LGS starts running Death House on Thursday. I've read through the majority of the book now, and it looks pretty fun. There is a TON of npcs with unique stories and info, but I predict a lot of it will be lost on the PCs. The logistical difficulties of a 7 player...

I know Kalani. I explained as much. But like I said I was willing to look the other way and just let him do the role-playing without mechanical benefits. The season was almost over anyways so it wasnt any skin off my back. I let him be an honorary member of the Goldwhisker Clan.

Similar topic. One of my players got infected with Wererat lycanthropy in Blingdenstone. He wants so badly to have the lycanthrope template. I genuinely believe its not an attempt to min-max. He's a bit autistic and seems to be really attached to the idea. I felt real bad informing him I...

This is super awesome to hear. The thing that stands out to me is that it does not appear to be contrived. Like, nobody is asking for graphic depictions. That the information is presented as something that just...is, I guess, is what makes me happy. People who game with a teenager that got...

The old adage hasn't really changed. A failed Con save kills you...a failed Will save kills your party.

ALs encounter suggestions are a bit of a mess. You can add monsters, but they should be the same -type- gnoll => gnoll packlord => champion of Yhenoghu You arent supposed to change stat blocks, but in several cases you are told to change stat blocks. Also DM trick #1 is pretty much always...

I got my copy of CoS today, so i havent absorbed it all yet. Looks pretty good sofar. I still haven't found the part where the PCs get to escape Barovia. I assumed it was in a Vistani settlement. There is 1 magic item I think was a pretty bad choice for AL...just because the realities of...

The 5e PHB had a little blurb about diversity and stereotypes. It wasn't really a big deal, but it meant a lot to me personally. Continuing the awesomeness, is another first for an 'official' D&D publication. As far as I know anyways! CoS has 2 gay NPCs! Sure, they are dead and they don't...