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I forget, what is the exp requirement to get from 1st to 5th? And how many level 9 encounters would it t take to get them up to 5th.

Hex works with Eldritch Bolt as well. The issue with Blade locks is that yeah you have a weapon and can even get a second attack... Those attacks will never be as good as Eldritch bolt. Using Eldritch bolt, plus hex will always be better than using your class feature granted weapon... Unless...

Except the entire premise of the warlord is one of intelligent and charismatic leadership. That's its entire power and concept basis. To issue commands to nearby allies. Commands that they expect to be followed, that's how the warlord is effective in anything it does, by telling other people...

I agree with this pretty much entirely. Though in the near future I'm going to start experimenting with mix level parties (very viable in 5th). I rarely use experience for determining leveling but in the case of adding a new character that is level 1 to a party of level 11 characters that...

Well I mean technically the scag has expansions to help out previous books. Mainly the cantrips in it. They make Blade lock a viable build that will actually use its weapon rather than Eldritch bolt all the time. I think that's what I'd have an issue with here; that at the moment if I was...

It isn't a flaw in the position, it is an inherent fact of the position and thus ironic as heck, but that doesn't make the position flawed.

No it assumes the planet is of a different size than the planet earth.

And a living world doesn't mean you let the players unwittingly roll into the end of the game. Living worlds are also rampantly non living. For instance you say hey if these guys walk into this dragon den they are dead, and it is their fault... Why in this living world is the dragon always...

Did you have any sign posts (literal or figurative) that say 'here be dragons low levels need not apply'? If you don't, that would be your dming failure. No amount of what you say will make that not your dming failure. You had a giant hole full of 'the game is entirely over' sitting in your...

Exactly, that's a totally fine encounter except for the hippogriff screw up. It's designed to challenge, but not kill. Except you failed a little bit and accidentally put the players in a highly deadly situation. Any death there would have been a failure on your part to account for them...

It wasn't so much an assumption about you, it's just a consistent problem I've seen with some DMs. Not realizing that players are supposed to win often. I think every DM likes seeing their players overcome challenges in unexpected ways, but at the same time no player likes sitting there and...

There is definitely a chance your character dies but the game is rigged for that to be the lesser chance and as the DM I'm supposed to play into that fact not get pissed when the players always succeed.

For the most part yeah, and I don't feel bad for you.

You are missing my meaning here. I'm not saying they make it through without question. If they just stand there and let it happen then the monster eats them. Bad rolls happen and you get eaten. However if I have designed an encounter the PC's can't hardly defeat without using the exactly...

Oh I'm not saying the conga line issue isn't an issue. That's definitely a thing that can happen when holding a choke point you just have to hope that the one holding the choke point has a good ac, a good healer backing them up, and that their ally's are launching attacks at the goblins that...

They aren't meant to lose automatically but they are meant to lose in the end. They are there to challenge but most assuredly not stop the PC's.

I agree with everything here. I will amend my previous statement to make room for situations such as this where the player actively volunteers for death. Though I'd likely let them know they are doing something real dumb, especially if the character has a decent int.

I'm not saying the PC's are supposed to win without some adversity, but outside of harmless non killing pc drops, the monsters are supposed to lose. It is a central premise that a lot of dms fail to realize, that in the end the players are supposed to succeed. As the DM it takes no effort to...

I pretty much never prep. I know what types of things are around the players, I generally know what my big bad guys are doing around the same time. My big thing when I run games is that I let the players do whatever they want. If they want to spend the whole session going over the events of a...

I have to agree, the dumber I play my monsters, and by that I mean playing monsters as though they don't know they are in a game system that can be gamed, the more fun my players seen to have, and the more willing they become to also not game the system. Does this mean I purposefully have my...