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I've got 3 Humans 3 Wood Elves 2 Halflings 1 Half-Orc 1 Dragonborn 1 Tiefling 1 Dwarf 1 Goliath Not all play every session but it's a mixed group.

YMMV, but I enjoy starting from level 1 because your character makes game choices that affect your character's behavior and your character's choices as you progress. Yes you can just create your character's story out of whole cloth at higher levels but there is something fun about having played...

I was bringing in characters at EL1 but after the longest running players hit level 6, I started bring in characters at higher levels. It wasn't as much fun for the new characters being so far behind. For someone who is very new I bring them in slightly lower but then move them up after they...

I've been fortunate enough to run a gaming group at my church and we have about 12 players and the number of players that show up any given session can be from 2 to 12. Makes planning harder but the group is a bunch of first time players as well as a few veterans. Players have come in and out...

My 5e campaign has an over arching story of working to stop the infiltration of beings from the Far Realms into the world. The party discovered that Dragons originally had that task until the humanoids overthrew the dragons (many of the powerful humanoids became gods) and over the thousands of...

My party must have the same teachers. Thunder Wave, Thunderous Smite, Shatter, Call Lightning with knock back (thanks Tempest Cleric). My party brings the NOIZE. The enemy is happy to bring reinforcements to the party though. I think it's because these spells are some of the better AOE...

The wizard in my campaign figured out that at most levels you can only prepare one more spell but get to learn two. He has been focusing on picking up rituals that help the party in non-combat situations. He just got to level 5 and picked up water breathing. Even as an evoker wizard he...

I can see the fluff helping players to have some better knowledge of the legends of the world they inhabit simply because they can't have experienced their lives as the characters (what bedtime stories, fables, folktales are told around the fires of the world) so the fluff helps players feel...

It seems that by forcing the symbol and glyph of warding spells, it is rewarding characters that have a home base instead of the wandering life of adventurers. I agree there should be some spell to help keep wizards from being robbed of their spell books. I'd just let glyphs of warding to be...

I'm trying to understand what you mean here. The last playtest packet Black dragon seems weaker than either the Adult or Young Black Dragon. Or are you talking about the closed Alpha test instead of the the open playtest? Last Playtest Bestiary Young MM Dragon Adult MM Dragon CR 10...

One of the things I miss about the old Pyramid magazine message boards were proposals of campaigns by one of the players there. To play with that GM, you read the synopsis and applied for the game you wanted to play. Each campaign was a limited run for a planned number of sessions. This...

I am not sure. As someone who has DM and played in lots of different systems both old school and Indie, I don't agree that the impact of the system on the game is as great as some people say. After all if you've ever played or DM'd First edition Paranoia you can be sure that system didn't make...

I had this happen to 2 6th level players charging 18 archers. It ended poorly for the players. Both were dropped to 0 HP. Cleric healed them with Mass Healing Word and they were able to avoid dying.

So I was going over the list of cleric spells with Lightning and Thunder damage and the answer was none except for the spells in the Tempest domain list. Now it is cool they get two ways to do lightning or thunder damage (1 at first level another at eight level) but I was thinking about...

So do something different by working with your DM. As long as the critter is balanced with the rest of the choices. Use the imp stats and call it and describe it as something else. Or add something about making it hideous and frightening.

I'm running at game for people (mostly kids but some adults) at my church 2 Sundays a month. I've got a homebrew world but I use a lot of modules with adaptations.

I'm not sure why they didn't add Water Naga to the Naga types.

The design of Greyhawk specifically doesn't have strong forces of good. That's supposed to be the players fighting the evil. This seems more heroic than having a setting where there are forces of good that are as strong or stronger than the evil forces.

In my group (we don't always see everyone show up) Wood Elf Tempest Cleric who left her temple because she learned forbidden knowledge Human Spy Half-orc Barbarian former slave who is going to go back and free his family Human Fighter Wood Elf Shadow monk who joined the party after they rescued...

Not sure how it's gaming the system. If you are rewarding players for overcoming a challenge does it matter if it was 1 giant or 11-12 Hobgoblins? Why shouldn't they get the same XP reward for the same challenge? Or worse why should someone overcoming 12 hobgoblins individually get the same...