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multiple checks are a no no imho. why? Because many pcs will not have high proficiency in athletics or acrobatics. that way if they try to climb anything with even a low dc they are destined to fail. so the only correct way to go is fix an appropriate dc, give advantage if something like a rope...

if you plan on some "low magic" then also consider restricting casters a bit, otherwise things might get shifted in balance a bit at higher levels. suggestion mages do not get free choice of scrolls, they might have to find/buy what is available to learn new spells. take some spells away which...

do not fix it if it isnt broken. no, seriously, the toolkit is in your hands, it is called DMG. a capable DM can fix any issue with the game. E.g. Solo mobs: Make the dish out heavy melee damage if they are melee, give tgem some resistance and immunities, have them start at range, if they are...

nope, both are improvised weapons. Also i doubt that you can throw a rapier in any meaningful way since 70% of its mass are concentrated around the hilt. So you have no chance to hit with the piercing end. i would also rule that you have disadvantage and deal a max of 1 damage. the xbow as a...

As a dm i might come up with an enemy flying sorloc targeting the pc sorlocs flight spell with a distant dispel magic at some point...

900ft is the far edge of modern ranged combat situations, without resorting to target telescopes. but I dunno, what is this good for? Asuming the sorc got flight on he would be out of reach for most mobs in the open. This would require the dm to tailor scenarios to make them still a challenge...

d&d combat has been slow before 5e. Except maybe 2e darksun. 5e combat is much faster still than any other edition. D&d combat can get slow, if you run many opponents though, but there are dm tricks to work around this. other rpgs have more or less complexity, deriving from their game...

i, as a dm who tends to restrict race selection (and have been criticized for that in this forum) to meet the campaign flavor, but for sure would allow a kender in a DL campaign, would ask you: Do you follow that session 0 principle of yours also for other choices? What if elf is one of the...

If i would happen to DM a DL campaign, then of course, in FR definitely not, but i voted yes since i assume you meant that?

current group is 40 i am 54 i dm gh. They heard the name and knew a tiny bit of it since it was 3e standard but that's about it and they did some 1e and 2e stuff as kids

please could you elaborate on the topic elemental echoes of the prime a bit? i never heard of that, is it something like shadowfell and feywild connected closely to the prime, with some weird things going on with prominent landmarks showing up altered depending on which plane you are?

i tend to define a tech level equivalent to some RL epoch and area. For me and hopefully for my players also it helps with immersion into what the setting looks like. That might imply that even firearms exist, but also that eventually greatswords and platemail do not. the main assumptions you...

i use many 2nd ed and some 3e principles, but i play 5e of course. Some of the things i keep: Deity ranking Spell level needs 10+ level for casting attribute. i use pantheon of published settings, but i reduce the number of gods at least those available to the players i normally loathe non...

whats a clusterbleep? Non native speaker just asking trolling :P

Atm covid is the show stopper for my group. Some do not.like to play online, they want to meet face to face or rather not play at all. 😒

A good table can support any attribute distribution, evven if counter class as in not optimated. It really depends on the type of campaign: A investigative campaign wit hloads of RP and social skills would rather have everyone put soem points in Cha, Wis or Int for the social skills, whereas a...

I got both types of players / DMs in my rounds. Some really hate divine (or High level NPC) interventions, especially if they are the only means of winning. But i think you got to differentiate here: As a plot device, or being far back in history these things can really rock, and i found no...

Nah i thought we cleared that up already, the fire giants below do it. But that's not the point of the discussion atm.

i do not know if this is official lore or taken from some discussion about if it is ok to slaughter innocent civilians in ravenloft, since they are no real people anyway. it might be like that in some domains to explain inconsistencies, but it is imho no general principle of the setting.

i understand you and the other posters with similar opinion. Of course a game can work just fine, if you take the environment like the background of some simple scrolling computer game, one of these were you cannot interact with the "environment", even if you wanted to. But for me a ttop always...