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Quick check-in: I wasn't clear on your plan... I also was sensing you might be ready to move on with the murderer quest, so I was trying to use the NPC Brydum to communicate "You have an out of this little dungeon if you want it"...

Brave tackling Vecna! Hope your Cyberpunk RED goes well. I love the story beats section that Pondsmith wrote – top notch stuff for any GM.

Last month I ran an online AD&D 1st edition one-shot of UK4: When a Star Falls. It's a good adventure! Some rough parts at the beginning (hook is weak) and end (surprise, it's dragons from out of nowhere), but the adventure sites are evocative and the idea of a recurring "dark rider" pursuing...

Hah, going to have to fully crack high-level play issues & playtest playtest playtest first!

Indeed. Well said! I’m much less active in the 5e space recently (in terms of play, purchasing, publishing/writing), but I do like seeing creative approaches to 5e. I think there’s a lot of creativity out there & lots of earned wisdom through play. One of my long term goals- my last personal...

So... Yeah, you and I may be more comfortable with the "eyeballing/intuiting it" approach. For the benefit of the OP (and others in same boat), I will elucidate further.... First of all, the Easy/Medium/Hard/Deadly designations are notoriously bad guidelines. You'll notice that's why in my...

Huzzah! @Daztur Well said. There are definitely ways to do "rules not rulings", but I think games like 4e and PF2e do a much better job. WotC seems to have difficulty – imho – sticking the landing with concise precise clear rules language. I get it – that sort of writing is very difficult. As...

The wizened GM with the Bruce Lee method. I bow to your flexibility. oh, ow, there went my back

Well, you can cite me as a N of 1 for @Daztur 's observation! There are no actual numbers I've seen. Perceptions will differ, but the conversation online about a "DM shortage" picked up in Nov 2022 from this Hell Gate article (behind a paywall). Ben on Questing Beast posted a video around the...

I've run a fair number of one-shots, typically for 3 to 6 players. I also have run campaigns with up to 8 players. I cannot think of any modules I've run for one-shots that I would recommend for the 5th edition system for a party of 8 players. None of them would fit in the allotted time. My...

Don't plan to switch, stick with 2014 (house ruled). And Switch to another game system.

A few other recent polls: https://www.enworld.org/threads/have-the-2024-phb-reveals-changed-your-intentions-re-purchasing-d-d-2024-25.705837/ https://www.enworld.org/threads/youre-not-planning-on-getting-2024-d-d-why-is-that.706092/

You have lots of GMing experience, so I think you'll get an intuition for how to gauge 5e fight difficulty pretty quick. Best thing I've found is if you have a combat for an upcoming session that you're pretty sure will happen, share a quick blurb of what you're thinking on ENWorld – 5e, # PCs...

So... there's a "multiple monster XP modifier." In scenes with lots of monsters you don't use RAW XP for encounter building maths in 5e – it gets adjusted by this "multiple monster XP modifier" due to just how big of a factor having an action economy advantage is. I'll attach a snapshot of what...

This is something I put together to articulate my own process more clearly. There's a lot of art to it, and the Adventuring Day Budget "Approx. Max %" is something I developed wholly by feel with my play groups and playtested up to 12th level. My point is YMMV. But the principles here are sound...

One mind flayer can wreck a party in formation within 60 feet if they roll bad on their save vs. wands – being stunned/unable to act for 3d4 rounds is...it's a death sentence if the mind flayer has any minions. So some of this depends on specifics of the scene / scenario. Well, not some, MOST...