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I had an interesting situation come up recently. I have DMed since 2e and have always subscribed to the "modern" view of, "the true penalty is not getting to play." So players in my games have gotten full xp when they miss a session (no treasure though). About a year ago my weekly group...

The Ella-Krad In my 4th edition Dark Sun campaign my wife played a Half-Giant Barbarian Gladiator who wielded a psionic maul crafted for her by one of her biggest fans. Eventually it was called the Ella-Krad by the party. There was nothing too special about this weapon other than it did an...

Magic item I made for our group's lucha: Lucha Gloves of Infernus Wondrous Item, rare (requires attunement by a grappler who follows the path of the lucha (rudo or technico) When an opponent is grappled, the wearer may use a bonus action to set an adjacent table or similar structure on...

Get a hireling whose only job is to cast minor illusion to subtitle you when you speak.

Previous Editions - Wish ages you 5 years. A clone can cast wish 5 times, a lich can cast infinity times. 5e - My house rule is that a lich doesn't suffer "stress" from casting wish. So they can do all the old school wish stuff without having a 33% chance of never casting it again. Fun fact...

I once looked one of my players in the eye and said, "the fire priest is casting Fireball, you should probably counterspell." This optional rule is not for me. Also, it was then that I learned that the party's Wizard didn't have counterspell.

Have ancient runes that translates to "A huminoid's worth of soul.". The PCs will likely think it simply didn't translate well and what is required is one humanoid soul sacrifice. Smart parties will figure out that they can each give up one fourth of their souls (if a party of 4) to create one...

But that's actually true.

"Ouch, yet another low score from the Soviet judge."

I want to be but I'm really worried my DM is going to implement the sleeping in armor rule. To me this is just a terribly designed rule as it: 1) Doesn't actually make the game more fun. 2) Makes dexterity an even better stat. If he does implement the rule I'll probably just suicide my...

Of course not! It could also be very foggy.

Passive perception in dim light is at -5. A 1st level rogue relying on darkvision when searching for traps in a dark dungeon with a passive perception of less than 15 is gonna have a bad time.

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Ten years from now when one of your players is in a discussion about their favorite campaign, he/she isn't going to talk about the campaign the ended with them fighting yet another dragon, demon possessed or not. The campaign they will look back on most fondly was the one in which the DM let...

My wife once told me celebrating Valentines Day was optional that year . . .

I don't know if anyone posted anything similar, but in high school we did the following to generate stats in 2e: 1d8+10, roll three times for each stat, taking the highest roll in each case. Unless it was Dark sun, then we rolled 1d10+10.

Also no mention of Dark Sun/Athas. I'm assuming this will be the case for all of the adventures in the book as it will be hard to put these old adventure in Dark Sun. This is giving me great hope that "Dust" is, in fact, a Dark Sun adventure path. The logic being that Dark Sun fans "miss out"...

Obviously magic would be required resurrect the sub-forum, because it's absolutely ridiculous to think you could just "shout" it back into existence.

Let your players choose how they want to proceed by playing the Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure time game with them. When they check back in a few days, have a second "good" version of the sword laying alongside the original bad version. Have the mages inform the PCs that less than an hour...

Yea, it was an episode of Grimm. I think the same season that had the Illithid. Fun fact, the Lucia episode of Grimm featured Chaco Guerrero, Jr., whose uncle Edie sometimes wrestled under the moniker of Black Tiger, Tiger Mask's archrival, in Japan.