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I would reduce the hp given out by twilight sanctuary to 1 + cleric level per round.

Part of Lathander's portfolio is athletics.

In my earlier post I talked about my Savage Worlds game where most of the party is optimized except for one player. It got me thinking about the reverse case -- when only one member of the party is highly optimized and the rest are not. This is what I call the "Diana Ross & the Supremes" or...

In my experience an increase in campaign difficulty is what happens when a significant number of the party members are optimized. That's fine. The problem is that it can turn into an arms race where the PCs are optimizing more and more and the DM keeps jacking up the difficulty. Eventually...

I have another thought about optimization as regards to my current Savage Worlds game. This group has been playing Savage Worlds off-and-on since 2013. We are very experienced with the system. Our characters are optimized. But there is one exception. We have one player who is new to both...

This is an old story from my D&D 3.X days (2001-2006). I think the sorceress player was a new player. But the other two were actually "experienced" (I use the term loosely) players. The fighter player is actually still a good friend of mine today. Back then I think he was only interested in...

I played with a badly unoptimized party and found it frustrating and horrible. We had an 11 strength, 13 con fighter who insisted on fighting with a longsword and was constantly going down like the old woman in Life Alert commercials ("I've fallen and I can't get up!"). There was as cleric...

I have been able to stay positive about the upcoming movie partially because I have mentally blocked out that 2000 D&D movie. I can no longer remember what happened in it beyond a few vague generalities. Some memories are better left repressed.

Killer DMs certainly existed when I was in middle school. I was possessed by a demon (no saving throw) and my soul was forever destroyed. The dragon swooped down out of nowhere and incinerated me (no saving throw). I sprung a trap in the dungeon which killed me (no saving throw). There were...

Awesome! I am excited to see this when it comes out! As someone who was a child during the 1980s satanic panic, I never thought I'd see the day so many major stars were attached to a D&D movie. Of course, that was all before Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones.

Brave Sir Robin ... ! I was told the card-playing ranger/darkness-casting cleric player dropped a lot of acid (and not the black dragon breath kind). If so that explains a lot.

These are some examples of the useless lame-o PCs I have seen -- *Most often the PC hides in combat and just sits there. Not launching sneak attacks from hiding, just sitting there like a bump on a log. I have played with rogues who spent combat looting the bodies while the rest of the party...

I like the Talisman Adventures RPG.

1. Chaotic Stupid (Neutral) as an excuse to do evil/ridiculous/insane bull$**t. I have seen this many times and I am sick of it. 2. Lawful Stupid Paladin. Thankfully, this has become much less of a problem in 5E. 3. Slutty Drow Priestess/Assassin. 4. All dwarves are ugly, the...

My initial interest in Critical Role was watching professional actors play D&D, which was a novel idea I had never seen before. I never conceived of D&D as a performance piece. I am not a professional actor nor have I played with any. They have the craft to inhabit characters in ways most of...

It was very successful! We destroyed the evil druids and twig blights infesting the Wizard of the Wines. It was not too difficult. Thodak and Fornn ripped through the twig blights while while Balore targeted the druids with nasty necromancy spells. Afterward greedy Thodak helped themself to...

This session was fun! A good mix of roleplaying and action. As we hiked through the forest to the Wizard of the Wines, we came upon a caravan of Vistani including Madam Eva. They invited us into their caravan for a meal. I rolled a natural 20 on my insight check and sensed no ill intent, so...

We continued on the road through the forest to the Wizard of the Wines. We encountered a group of four human travelers on the road with a wagon and a dead horse. The ground was covered with blood. They said wolves had attacked and killed their horse. As we passed around them, they...

It was the first session of a new campaign. We are playing The Curse of Strahd online. It was a bit disorganized as first sessions often are. But overall I thought it was a good start and am looking forward to the campaign. Town officials in Daggerford sent us out to hunt werewolves. We got...

I had the urge to make a party of four half-elves in Solasta, lol. But I resisted and only had one in the party. Of course, in 5E tabletop half-elves are one of the strongest races. So I suppose Solasta is being faithful to the 5E source material.