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Reducing treasure is important. Direct conversion of spell casters will leave them weaker than expected. I tend to give spell casters some minions to help keep the party off them so they can cast spells.

I've been running more open games at my church and when I fill in on AL nights at my local game store. So I haven't minded most of the player ideas. When I run less open games, I try to take a page from someone from the old Pyramid boards and do a summary of the campaign and let people apply...

For the Tempest cleric in my game I let them choose to switch a spell's radiant damage to lightning or thunder at the time of casting because there are not very many lighting or thunder spells a tempest cleric gets. When I looked at it, it was pretty much one per level and no cantrips. I let...

I run a group at church that meets twice a month. After about 2 years of playing (starting with the playtest rules) the highest level character is 9th level most others are 7th or 8th. We play about 4 hours each time we meet. Not everyone shows up each time and people who don't show up get 1/2...

I've been adding the PotA content into the Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil and I included having the original Elemental Champion having become the high priest of the Elemental Princes of Good. My players found him and after escorting him to a safer hiding place (and dealing with the...

But I didn't have the salmon mousse. **Some more I thought of** It's just a flesh wound... Call me maybe? The hokey pokey IS what it is all about... I will haunt you... See you in your nightmares There will be others... With my last breath I spit at thee Is your name Inigo Montoya? Do you want...

I generally like rolling and I don't mind getting a weaker character from rolling but I can see that some players don't like it. To me rolling poorly on a character is just a chance to have fun with a character called to be a hero but maybe not quite good enough to make the cut. The last...

No cleric in my main group for a while now. There was a tempest cleric but she has to work the days we play now. There is a paladin, ranger and druid so healing is covered. I find that the clerics of 5th edition are fun. But they don't need to be healers during combat. The only time the...

Now that my PCs are all 6-8th level, towns are a place where they are being asked for help or their enemies are trying to lay traps for them. When in a town each players tells me what they want their characters to do and unless there is some possible reason for failure it just happens. I...

I have a group I run for people at church that I do not enforce AL rules. I started playing in an AL game at a game store in Long Beach. I started GMing last week when there were more people than prepared tables. I had a lot of fun focusing on giving the players a chance to role-play instead...

I definitely can see that. But it's also interesting to watch what happens to a player that has failed two death saves as they try to convince someone at the table to come to their rescue. It puts an interesting pressure on the tactics of the players. If I wasn't running a table with some...

I think my party would be too paranoia to be taking a hooded quest giver at face value. Usually I just let my group hear about any rumors and I've only had two times where I've approached the party with a quest giver like that. 1. When the party was separated and I approached the character...

Sure but even with 10 players (at times) and 4-6 monster types it isn't hard to find the right card and mark the right row for hit points. It also makes sure I have the resistances and vulnerabilities right there. It was lots of fun when the ranger was using a lightning bow and attacking...

Humans are terrible at determining patterns. I have one very lucky player at my table. Young kid of 9. He rolls his dice (damage and d20) at the same time and out into the table and leaves them there to count out the damage. And damn if he hasn't gotten 3 20s in a row with his yellow clear...

I use 3x5 cards for each player and monster. Player cards have AC and some information including this combat's initiative value. Monster cards have stats, attacks, AC and HP. Multiples of the same monster I keep HP in separate rows. This way I can stack all the players and monsters in order...

I would be tempted to have lightning llamas for comic effect. (built up from their wooly coats). But lightning leopards would be good too if you want something allterative.

This had come in my group and since the wraith was on a river when they used bead of force on it, the wraith force bubble floated down the river. Made it much easier to deal with the second wraith.

I run a group at church and I'm never sure how many people will be there. I've had as few as 2 and as many as 11 on a given session. I have a plan and an outline but when the number of people are not what I am expecting I have to improvise.

My group started slowing down after 6th and getting to each level feels like a milestone now. Highest character is 8th but players don't make every session so the levels are from low-6th to mid-8th level and level progression feels good. Players look forward to leveling and trying out their new...

Finally had time to read it and I think the formatting is terrible and the content isn't that interesting to me. I'll keep looking at it hoping to improve but trying to read the material was annoying. The idea that there was text as part of the body of the article and then the same text larger...