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Is this assuming the Roc just swings down and fights toe to toe with the party to the death? Because that is not going to happen. The Roc would fly down, Hit/grapple with Talons for an average of 23 damage, his beak does another 27 damage on average. If he flies up 120ft and drops the PC...

No I meant the Roc would use it's beak attack against the PC grappled in its talons, but only if it deemed it necessary. Chances are, it wouldn't be necessary. The more I think about it, the more it doesn't sound like a good idea to do this encounter. The PCs only have 50-60 hp so only the...

I appreciate the input. I intended for them to already be somewhat across the "relatively" open field when the Roc showed up in the skies. I figured it would circle them for a while giving them time to think about potential courses of action. I want to provide some cover but not TOO much cover...

Alright alright... to keep from making a very hard encounter even harder, I'll stick to RAW on the stunning and frightened conditions. I'm still having a hard time seeing the three of them surviving this. It just seems too "all or none" with the Roc attacking the party. It seems they would...

Do you think that it should be able to be stunned or tripped by a small/medium creature punching it? I can see it POSSIBLY being frightened just as a person will run from a hornet/wasp.

They don't have any horses unfortunately. If they did, they would surely sacrifice one or all of them in order to survive.

All three characters have ranged attacks. The problem is the Roc can fly 120ft per round, pretty much auto grapples on a hit from it's talons and will fly away with a PC. That would be basically instant death to 2 out of 3 characters. I wouldn't allow a medium character to be able to trip a...

Well I can set the terrain up any way I like. That's really what I'm trying to figure out. I want it to be in a mostly open field, but it has to have SOME cover or they would never make it. Too much cover would make it too easy. I thought about adding some cattle or something but then it...

Too hard? Instant death to the party? haha The group consists of a War Cleric, Monk or the Long Death, and a TWF/Dual Wielding feat Battle Master Fighter. These players are OP by means of stats and equipment. They all have 20 AC and a 20 in their attack stat. The Cleric and Monk use a +2 weapon...

The characters will start at level 7 and be relatively even as far as stats go. They are going to be devout followers of Orcus so they're going to get along just great. I'm not sure if there will be any more players or if it will be just the three of them. I kinda of assume all three of them...

Awesome synergy or redundantly repetitive?

The Mobile feat is always good on any character. So is Lucky, Alert, and Resilient.

I'm playing a Goliath Barb with 20 Str in one of my campaigns and he like to grapple, slam, and throw enemies. The DM has been great about rewarding me for flavor. Typically, throwing one enemy at another would probably only do 1d4+str to both while using an enemy as a weapon to hit another...

I was just curious what everybody thinks about the shield in 5e. I like it a lot and I think it's a powerful item to have. Of course it's not great enough that every character should have one or anything, but I think it's a great tool for a lot of classes. +2 to AC is huge for anybody in 5e...

Honestly, I do not see a problem here. So what if Con is important to everybody? I do not see how that is a bad thing or how it could make things boring. I would rather blame the extremely weak standard array or how weak level 1 characters are supposed to be. I have gotten used to starting off...

I like the Monk class and wouldn't change much if anything. I like the Open hand Monk and think the Long death Monk is a little OP, but not game breaking. I am not familiar with the Elemental or Shadow monks. If I had to nitpick, I would like maybe a little more ki? Maybe a 1d10 hd? uh...

Since nobody has mentioned it at all, I'm going to give a shout out to the PALADIN as one of the more OP characters in and out of combat. They can literally do everything well.

Hahaha that would be AWESOME!! Yeah I wasn't sure how fall damage worked in 5e, but I thought it was a lot more than that, and still think it should be. A 200ft fall is only 20d6 damage? Really??? My 7th level Barbarian would shrug that off like nothing haha. I tend to lean towards the...

That's a cool story. Thanks for sharing. How did the characters survive the 80ft fall? I'm pretty sure one of the Clerics in one of my campaigns is expecting greater things from Divine Intervention. I think he thinks his god is going to win entire encounters for him. I didn't think would be...

I'd love to hear some of what you have done as a DM or have had done as a player. I am currently playing as a Cleric on one campaign and DMing a Cleric player in another so I'm mainly wondering about what to expect from it.