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My players stop reading now. My biggest problem with this Adventure Path has been the lack of motivation for the baddies - release the elemental princes and be evil just doesn't do it for me. I think I've found a hook that fits for my campaign and it may be useful for someone else. Right from...

What general dissatisfaction? Have you got any non-anecdotal evidence to back that up? I think the concentration rules are a good thing and I've seen nothing to make me think I am in a minority.

Here's my latest installment, in which the party are completely overwhelmed and narrowly escape with their lives. It really was very close to a TPK, but no-one actually died. That's the kind of game I love. At one point the party was split into 3 different groups, all of them in strife. Very...

I'd think thematically about the goals of each character, and how a dragonmark might help enhance their abilities towards that end. Because it is house ruled you don't need to worry too much about balance anyway. I actually don't like the ideas of dragonmarks giving you spells. It just doesn't...

I haven't gotten that far yet. They have just made their way back up to the surface of the Sacred Stone Monastery, coming up two separate stairwells (they got separated in the running battle). Helenrae and the rest of the cultists are waiting for one group up the top. While the other are just...

I'm playing an Eberron game at the moment. None of the players had taken on a race or class that were Ebberon, but one has a dragonmark. We worked out a homebrew dragon mark (as the UA version was awful) based on House Deneith and the characters background and motivation. It works well for our...

Just finished a new session with my group now. Like you it was in the sacred stone monastery. Unlike you, my group went downstairs, and then further downstairs, and they went without a plan. The party got separated from each other, everyone got blocked off from the exits and they were completely...

Not all of us live near a city. It would involve a lot of driving for me to participate and is prohibitive. At the same time, there is plenty of material out there without resorting to piracy (Arrrrr). The only reason I feel the need to pirate (Arrrrr) is so that I can have an e-version of the...

I'm playing the Starter Set, aka The Lost Mines of Phandelver with my 7, 5 and 3 year old. They absolutely love it. I am basically running the dungeon complexes only, with some narration to join them up. I'm not expecting them to have good roleplaying at this stage, but 12 year olds should...

I'm currently running Ebberon for Princes of the Apocalypse. The fluff is absolutely fine, and I'm happy to wing it with NPC dragonmark abilities, Warforged etc as they don't need to be particularly balanced. But Eberron does lack conversion for PC races, classes and dragonmarks. I found the...

Yeh, I've been without games for a few weeks as well now. A funeral, school performances and work have meant my evenings are taken. I'm getting antsy. I need to roll some dice.

And I'm in a different camp. I found the factions and the plot hooks really bad and they just felt tacked on to me. I recommend taking some time with the players for them to design their characters and their backgrounds, and then make some adjustments to hook them in based on what they decide...

I reckon they should get some cool abilities from it, but the agonizing process should do some mental damage. I would either get them to design or choose an appropriate flaw for their character, or pick (or roll) a madness from the table in the DMG. Of course if they make some very high...

Both Hoard of the Dragon Queen and Princes of the Apocolypse are set nearby if you want to stay in the forgotten realms, and the first parts of both adventures are not essential - so you can ignore the earlier levels of the adventures and jump in where your characters are currently at. Both...

I'd set up a matrix, with risk on the columns Low, Medium, High. Low risk activities mean not much chance of a good haul, while high risk activities mean a possibility of a big payday, but also very bad consequences. Then roll a percentile dice and add appropriate modifiers. If you roll low...

I think a very high stress situation is a good reason to allow rerolls as well. One of the very fun encounters in my campaign involved the party being stuck down a dead end alley, with the town guards pouring in to kill them all. The only escape method viable for them all to escape was to pick...

Sounds rough, but sounds fun. My players also felt a bit overwhelmed at the start, but once they started carefully considering their options rather than just barging in, things started to go a lot better.

I would argue not to worry about setting right now. Start with the Starter Set - that has enough setting that you can get the 'real' D&D feel without having to get overwhelmed with details. After that you can decide whether to go further with the setting that the starter set includes, or whether...

Entering the Sacred Stone Monastery Continuing on from the groups non-PoTA related political shenanigans (or a side adventure if you like) The next morning, they decide that they must do what they can to stem the danger posed by the cults, and that they are unlikely to get any help from the...