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Birthright 14 Blackmoor 22 Council of Wyrms 16 Dark Sun 28 Dragonlance 13 Eberron 23 Ghostwalk 10 Greyhawk 30 Jakandor 19 Kingdoms of Kalamar 19 Lankhmar 25 Mahasarpa 17 Mystara 26 Pelinore 10 Planescape 16 Ravenloft 11 Spelljammer 22 Wilderlands of High Fantasy 18

Birthright 14 Blackmoor 22 Council of Wyrms 16 Dark Sun 25 Dragonlance 13 Eberron 22 Ghostwalk 14 Greyhawk 30 Jakandor 19 Kingdoms of Kalamar 19 Lankhmar 24 Mahasarpa 17 Mystara 25 Pelinore 14 Planescape 17 Ravenloft 12 Spelljammer 22 Thunder Rift 8 Wilderlands of High Fantasy 18

Birthright 18 Blackmoor 22 Council of Wyrms 18 Dark Sun 23 Dragon Fist 10 - I don't know what this setting is and I'm out for blood Dragonlance 18 Eberron 23 - My first real campaign where I felt like I knew how to DM. Also I love the setting for so many reasons it's impossible to list in this...

I think I barely managed to get over twice a week on average, but I might be underestimating each campaign's breaks, so I might be on the merely twice a week plan. Nearly all of that was as a DM, though I got to play a wonderful few months of Storm King's Thunder before the LGS I played at...

I have run for a while at level 20 or higher, my main thing is: At that level the game should be about your players, which means encounters should have ways to exploit their weaknesses or minimize their strengths. Naturally always having everything be perfectly made to counter them gets tiring...

I think the Rogue as written is a very solid class. The only things I would really change is updating the assassin, having seen and played many rogues, I think assassin is the worst of the subclasses when you use all the rules as written. The fact that you can set up your main assassinate...

Do you have your rogue sheet because 50 consistent damage in a round seems absurd. Surprise round hand x-bow with assassinate is at best 10d6+8 (Shot 1, auto crit from surprise and sneak attack (1d6+4 + 3d6 + 4d6 crit), Shot two auto crit for 2d6+4) for an average of 43 damage assuming he hits...

The resting thread combined with my own readings of other systems and playing 5e have brought this question to my mind. Often times we discuss balance, between classes, of an encounter, in a party, or in the abstract, but it seems that the definition wildly varies between people. When we make a...

I think of one shots as I would an episode of a TV show. The session has a singular overarching plot that gets resolved. I generally try to keep things focused and moving towards the plot of a session. If you like seeing how players react to difficult choices just start with a difficult choice...

Monster stats can be made in a vacuum, the characters resting is something that must be determined in play. Questions based on this. If a specific party is finding the threats in a given adventure far easier than their CR would indicate (A pally/cleric party in Curse of Strahd for example)...

To echo what others have said, light cleric relies on spells more than other cleric types so boosting your spell save DC is the most important thing for you. Any wisdom boosting race is ideal, and there are enough that you should have options for any given backstory. I would do a pretty standard...

It sure felt like D&D. I'm actually not a fan of starting at 1 for any group without new players in 5e. When I start a hexcrawling game with this group they will start at level 2. If we do a more plot based adventure style game they would start at 3. At this point I don't get inspired to DM at...

I vary between a and b, but in my current 5e game, a is the way to go. But I also really think there are differences in the options. Save or Suck spells in 5e are way easier than in say PF or Basic. In 5e your party can attack the person who cast it, and usually it has a save every round. I...

I too had players harvest a dragon, mine was more simple, but I actually like the mini game idea. Mine was a simple skill based on which part they wanted to harvest., but the skill challenge style sounds better. As for what they make, I based mine off of the Dragon Scale Mail. They could craft...

I do think the story plays a big role in the epic question. In this situation they uncovered an Item of Great Power, and had meetings with Gods, Dragons, and Planeswalkers. Moving to Epic made sense there. I am currently running a more old school style hexcrawl (They get less xp for killing...

Ending at level 20 was my original plan, but I let things get out of hand as I mentioned in Lesson 5. The threats I had in mind were appropriate to high level characters, and I was happy with the escalation by the end. But in an ideal world I would have just not had them level up as much between...

My first major campaign finally ended last month, it took the characters from level 6 to level 29. I learned a lot, and now I feel qualified to tell you all about it. I put it all in sections so you can read the overarching plot if you care, if not you can just get tidbits that I learned about...

I am a firm believer in making an effective character, but if something fits the flavor to a T taking it over optimized options. In that vein, if you envision yourself using crown of madness I support you. I do think that spells like Hold person or Dispel Magic, or Hold Monster are overall more...

That all looks pretty solid, With EB you are never going to lack a good option in combat, and it seems like you have a solid handle on how you want to act out of combat, so no real issues there. Just remember you can change a spell and invocation whenever you level up (Except Mystic Arcanum I...

Ignoring the terminology criss-cross: When I make a very challenging character for my players to fight, I make their combat ability an extreme example of the characters skill. A semi-recent example was when my players were gearing up with their final showdown against a Rakshasa Maharaja who had...