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The folder the sheets come in is something I would like to give my new players. It has helpfull notes on the inside that would come in handy. I passed by this at the store, but if I had seen what was inside I probably would have bought it instead of getting the Character Folio that had way too...

The way it stands right now, large size is an advantage in 5E. If you take an NPC and change him from medium to large you give him more HPs and double his weapon damage. Any disadvantage for being large is inconsequential, and that's especially true when you realize that being small has...

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Whatever a DM wants to do should be fine as long as the encounters are set up with how your short/long rests work in mind. Since the optional rules can make a short rest into 5 minutes or a day, there will be a lot of variance in what would be a typical 'adventuring day' of encounters at each...

I like how the rules say to not have players roll perception to find traps, but I'm not a fan of comparing 2 static numbers. I don't want a trap to always be found by one player and never found by another. I'd prefer to have the DM roll against the static perception. If the trap can be...

And some of the 'hoops' end up looking more like exploits. 5E has been pretty good at avoiding 'must have' builds that pull together different abilities and required items to let players make super characters, and many of us just want to avoid unintended power jumps that are discovered after the...

That's very true about the 'game mechanic' nature of concentration. I was trying to figure out a way to explain it with analogies, but there are no 'real world' examples that make sense to me. My idea was that concentration was like driving a car. You need to make sure you are watching the...

We all decide different things at our table. Players figuring out ways to cheese the rules will be handled differently by different DMs. This whole thread started over the 'bag of rats'. As far as using Pact Magic spell slots to regain sorcery points, I would not allow that at my table either...

I don't think any non-concentration spells that have a longer duration are problematic. RAW or RAI should allow them even at a table that thinks a spell slot can not be recovered for a spell that is being held in concentration. Now that you bring up the Sorceror's extended spell, that does...

I think I missed all the hype. What expansion book?

There is a chance he could not have been surprised even without the alert feat. When someone is waiting to ambush someone else, they need to roll stealth against the passive perception of the target. With the circumstances you've described you could give the ambushers advantage on the roll for...

If he was not surpised it could just mean that he heard them making noise before they got their shots off. They may still be unseen, but he is not surpised in the first round and still gets his move and action.

By RAW I would also think that you could keep a Hex active even during a long rest. There is no need to sleep during a long rest. If it were not for the ability for warlocks to get back all spells slots on a short rest and always use the highest level spell slots for any spell, we would not...

For me, I try to decide if players feel compeled to get the 'one right choice' when selecting options for their character. Currently the veteran players consider hex to be a mandatory spell and assume that it should be active at all times or the warlock is not doing the amount of damage they...

For my table, it has only been a problem when the players like to say they wear their armor every day of their life 24/7. I literally had a player who was woken up in the middle of the night in his castle while he was sleeping in the same bed as his wife and was insistent that he would be...

That's the way I view hex, and why I think a warlock would want to keep it active for a while. He can give an NPC a very bad day even if he never uses the hex to harm him. It's similar to how a ranger can use their hunter's mark to make it nearly impossible for his quarry to shake pursuit...

I think that you should only limit races if they are limited in your campaign world. While the only non-humans in Barovia are elves, the people drawn in from the fog can be from any world. The locals have probably seen some pretty odd creatures, and even humans from outside worlds would stick...

It looks like for a single level 10 player against a single adversary it would be a CR 4 for medium difficulty and CR 5 for hard. So for my game I should keep standard NPCs bellow CR 5 in the common areas of the world unless there is a reason why they could have amazing abilities (possesed...

The same DM could use WIS for spell attack bonus and INT for damage to force all classes to spread their points around. Some times it's just easier to leave things the way they are. I was going to revamp the skills system in my game, but I ended up just making things more complicated and...

I also did not like NPC allies overshadowing the players. I've either arranged for the NPCs to not join the party or adjusted their levels so they are more in line with the players. For my home game, we have my daughter playing the Esmerelda role (level 3 Eldritch Knight) and my wife is...