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I guess I can see that. For me there's a pretty stark contrast between TSR D&D up through 2nd edition and WotC D&D beginning with 3rd. I can see why players who were very into 3e and/or 4e would say 5e is "rulings over rules", but when I think of my 2nd edition days... hoooo boy those games...

It’s interesting that you went to mechanics first as where you get that 2nd edition feel from. For me, 2nd ed was all about the lore and just going crazy with lore. By my completely anecdotal/personal metric, 5e’s lore is anemic in comparison. Thus, on that front, I would disagree with Chris...

EDIT: Oh shoot, that last paragraph wasn’t supposed to be there! (I copy-paste from the RotFM adventure when guiding my area descriptions but then I deviate from that according to our game needs, and I must have forgotten to delete that). Fixed it now! Thank you for catching it Taran!

Definitely the Forge of Foes! The core maths were released as open content: The Lazy GM's 5e Monster Builder Resource Document

No problem. The giants rats are not attacking. They're responding like wild animals usually do to people...dashing away a safe distance (west toward the split-T passage) and then watching to see what you do next. Generally here's how I do initiative for PbP... There may be an "inciting event"...

My mistake. Will correct when next posting map and have time. If it’s “want to kill rats”, no need initiative. If it’s “want to attack cultists”, yeah we’d do initiative. Initiative is set for the PCs (you don’t roll). I roll for monsters (using a tighter bandwidth). Details in house rule...

I posted in the IC just to keep it moving: (IC) Quickleaf's Rime of the Frostmaiden

GM POST Aric, in giant spider form, ferries the entire party to the waterfall mouth. The narrow passage churns with fast-moving water below you, as one-by-one you brace yourselves against outcroppings in the walls, moving carefully to avoid slipping into the current and being swept down into...

@Aethmud @happylace @Neurotic @VLAD the Destroyer @TaranTheWanderer Sounds like your plan is to “ferry” the party (sans Jack who flies) - and the kobold leader Trex? - across to the narrow waterfall passage. The waterfall sound should automatically conceal sounds of your sneaking from cultists...

Are gnomes monsters and do they have…a lair?

@FitzTheRuke Are there monsters that could be conceivable summoned that restrict ability to take Reactions? If you’ve noticed any. Asking for a friend fighting a 2024 dragon with legendary reactions. ;) Edit: Sort of a double question as I don’t know how summon spells work in 2024, if there are...

For sure! I’m an old hand. It’s more for younger/newer players like my nephew and friend’s kids I’m asking for.

Are there species trait templates offered in the new MM? For example, “drow uses the scout stats”…and then you have list of drow traits (faerie Fire, 120’ dark vision, etc)? Or is it just the scout stats and nothing to differentiate drow scout from svirfneblin scout?

The YouTube video -that I can’t remember creator of- where I heard him reference that …something Goblin something blog interview with Jeremy (I looked it up but feels like ages ago)… in that video the creator drew a parallel to the internal WotC approach and the 2024 playtest of the Rogue’s...

I don’t know either. I’m sure other folks have ideas about why WotC chooses not to be transparent with their monster design/math process. I can offer one insight…from something Goblin something blog… interview with Jeremy where he describes their internal process of translating conditions into...

There is absolutely a system – lots of references Jeremy Crawford made to spreadsheets/maths used internally in interviews. I've posted them before, don't have time to look them up again.

Teos put up a nice summary video following up on the maths video!

If you're thinking of going along the Northeast waterfall passage... it's a tight squeeze for Medium creatures. Jack, Lumorolur, and Logrim (and kobolds) would fit no problem. @Steve Gorak Aric, in Large spider form, wouldn't be able to fit in that passage.

@I’m I actually really enjoyed your follow up comment about your experiences teaching and our formative cultures… However the unfriendly tone of this message leaves me feeling you’re more interested in scoring points than having a polite conversation trusting in the other person to present...