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Definitely find the MM stats for the creatures as the playtest bestiary will be weaker in general at least in my experience. I remember the vampire in the bestiary more like the vampire spawn in power. The MM Vampire will be much harder especially if you give it fighter ability. You may have...

I'm finding that as the players understand their characters more, they are mastering situational awareness. For example, the ranger last battle dropped a spike growth down in front of a corridor a guard ran down. This prevented 2 invisible enemies from just running out and causing trouble...

I like number 2 and I might use it for the monk that just started in my game. I'm not sure about the amount of Ki points yet so I'll hold it in reserve for after some more play.

Another way to approach it is like feats. You can get the Martial Adapt feat to get Battle Master type powers. It could be possible to create feats for different sub-class powers as well.

I was bringing new players and dead players in at level 1 and they would level very quickly. Once the highest level was 7 though, I started bringing in new players and replacement characters at level 3. Not too much of a difference but it lets players come in with their subclass features and...

We originally tried to play with 3rd edition but that was hard for the 10 year olds in our group to follow (and some of the older players too). Found the 5th edition playtest and it worked better for the group. Haven't made any major modifications to play and working on improving...

I run an open game session at our church (Unitarian Universalist Church of Long Beach) and we can have any where from 2 to 9 players show up. Some have dropped out but we add more. Few players showing up means they have to be smarter. A lot of new players and younger players so trying to...

The church in question is the Unitarian Universalist Church of Long Beach. The Unitarian Universalists are not a church which generally considers role playing in a negative light.

I'm running a 5th edition campaign that started with the playtest and we've converted to the PHB rules when they came out. Home-brewed world using some converted adventures modified to fit into the world. Party is messing with Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil right now which I've modified...

My players are working on this. Right now they have a Black Dragon, a Warlock Mindflayer, an insane Druid and a Dwarven Vampire all wanting them dead along with a few minor henchmen of former villains. Mostly due to the villains having good exit plans and the party not quite getting the...

This. When the party recently bypassed a couple of monsters and then had those same monsters attack them later after another encounter, it caused on player to believe something was tracking them from behind. (Correctly) And caused them to figure out how to lay a trap for their shadow. The...

Depending on the environment, the easy encounter is an opportunity to get past the speed bump to surprise the bigger threat. Get hung up on the "easy" encounter, and the enemies in the next room get to prepare and maybe join the fight if things don't go smoothly. (Though when enemies are set...

One of the players in our current game has a Dragonborn Sage Moon Circle Druid. So far the party is a group who know things they shouldn't and this is pushing them in lots of "fun" places.

I've got a world I'm building with the players that we started the playtest with. So far it is a small set of city states with enough trouble to keep adventures occupied. The party is aiming for building their own city state out of some wilderness on the edges. There is a deeper thread among...