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Interested to know if your players are experienced or relatively new to DnD? I've had a very similar experience with brand new players that I wrote about here and basically I've found that tactics (or the lack thereof) will lead to vastly different outcomes. Also surprise rounds make a massive...

Huh, had not thought of it that way. That would mostly fit with what I have seen and what I have experienced... ha.

I would have thought the idea be to take the standard balanced threats and tweak them to get your own flavour of crazy that matches your situation. It certainly makes more sense to me than taking someone elses crazy and try to squish it into my own setting/campaign/etc. To that end I personally...

I have come to the realisation that the chances of a TPK in the starter set are largely down to the actions the party decide to take. I say this as a totally new DM after having run 3 2-3 hour sessions of LMoP for my wife and two kids (7 & 10) who have never played a session of DnD (or any...

I'm running a DMPC during the current 5e Starter Set campaign I'm running as an introduction for my kids and my wife. Given that they chose an Archer (will be a ranger), Wizard and Cleric I rolled up a Mountain Dwarf Fighter with a background that included a massive head injury that means he now...

Except that that's Valindra Shadowmantle from the online game by ARC (or whoever), and came out before the new 5e art, so may not be representative of 5e art. Still I guess like the Owlbear some art is going to be taken from outside of the pieces specifically commissioned for 5e? Same would go...

I am loving the artwork for 5ed but none of it more than the new Monster art. I read an article on Wizards from a year or two ago about the progression of the design of the kobold where they looked at the changes over time from the original descriptions through the different editions artwork...

So I can't recall WHERE I read it but there was an article or a tweet or something from Wizards that suggested that ALL the gods are in the new FR setting. I was checking because my wife's cleric needed to be a morninglord of Lathander because it fit her outlook on life so so well and the whole...

Ran the first session of the Starter Set for our two kids and a reluctant wife who was brought in to make numbers, she had a very similar reaction and is now also looking forward to the second session this weekend. Not anywhere near as much as our 7 y.o. it has to be said, but then he was in...

Wouldn't that be because in previous/other systems it's been possible to use one hand crossbow in each hand and fire & reload each every turn? Sure, there are other reasons for hand crossbows (not the least of them in my mind being pure role-play / character design considerations), but that...

And then couple that with the old "hand crossbow on a cord" that was prominent in the Salvatore novels so you can drop the crossbow and still have it handy for later.

Merric, these write-ups are making me wonder if it really is ludicrous to consider driving up from Melbourne on a Wednesday evening to join in. Before driving back Cranborne/Pakenham way to get home afterwards! Obviously it is, but it really does sound like you have some incredible...

This pretty much outlined my thoughts on this as well.

Apologies for crossing streams and mixing genre specific metaphors like that... I had just read a Simpsons related tweet and was thinking in that frame of reference when I read your post which reminded me of an old school Simpsons scene that still makes me giggle 20-odd years later. So take it...

Levitate (2nd level spell) also?

WHO IS GABBO?

Attacking will give away your location the same way making noise or charging out of cover will.Hence the Goblins skill to be able to hide again as a bonus action. Edit: my point being that if you do grant advantage for being hidden, it only lasts for a single attack as once they attack they are...

so... would this decision (and announcement) have anything at all to do with the Necromancer Games? I'm still waiting to see what WoTC's reaction to that is, they have been pretty quiet over the last week. Not sure whether that's due to deadlines of releases or something else...

I could be wrong about 5e's mechanics, but I'm pretty sure there are two things messing with your math here: 1) you can only re-roll 1 die. so if you roll 1 and 1 on 2d6 you only get to re-roll one of those dice and... 2) you must accept the second roll. So if you re-roll your one die from the...

Earlier I had no idea what you were talking about and assumed it was something on your end, but then I got off my Linux laptop and onto my Windows machine and opened the file in Reader... now I know what you mean! Something about the font that doesn't play well on that combination. I assume...