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Yeah, I ran that twice, with two different groups, and the results varied somewhat. Basically, the "maze" effect wasn't the highlight, it was more the misdirection and hit and run tactics of the Kenku, which could force the players to not be sure exactly how to cover their rear, so to speak...

p.s. I think nerfing the Roc and/or the Monk's Stunning Strike is a terribly bad idea, especially if it's just to try and make a single encounter more balanced. As a player, I'd argue that the Monk's Stunning Strike is supposed to 'always work', unless the creature is immune to stunning...

Curse of Strahd features a Roc in Tsolenka Pass, which is aimed at 8th level PC's, however it's not intended to be a TPK the Roc just wants something to eat. My players encountered it as they were leaving the Amber Temple, and from what little I remember it was pretty rough in that the Roc is...

Totally agree with many others here - sounds like we have a fairly new set of people, playing low level PC's, and when the group finally decided they were in over their head and tried to escape, they got screwed over. At least that's most likely how the players would have felt, which is the...

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I don't recall the Fighter types being a problem at higher levels in 5e (I've run up to 21st level, currently playing at 10th), so don't see why you'd want to try and make them more like 4e was or whatever. The whole point of 5e is that each type of character...

Short answer: there's nothing at all in the 5e rules that stops me, or fellow DM's, from running the Style of game that we want... Bearing in mind that style is too difficult to describe, e.g. above I see "old school" then straight after are a bunch of things described that for me are...

I'm not 100% clear on what you have left for the players to do in your campaign, but I do wonder if giving your players a choice at the end of the campaign is the best way to round things off. Ideally, give them one or more situations to resolve, like a classic BBEG to defeat, loose ends they...

1) totally depends on your world view - in my world, maybe no-one? Maybe go find Elminster? WotC have tried, in 5e, to make the Sword Coats a place where level 10 PC's are heroes of legend, with no obvious high level NPC's around. 2) you know your group better than mine (I've never played...

My game isn't even quite that far advanced, but I've also given it some thought, for the same reason. My initial thoughts were as tabled here, but now I'm thinking more like these options: * the last two adventures from Rise of the Runelords (not just fighting giants, but very much big...

3.5 psionics were huge, like one really big (and good) book, with another splat book (not so good). Converting it to 5e, even half of it, is a massive undertaking. The Mystic is definitely rough around the edges, but if you rule no multi-classing, and only use the lower levels, it's probably...

In Scooby Doo, one of the most common sayings was always "Let's split up and search for clues". It made for great TV. And of course, nothing bad ever came from it... :lol: I have no idea why my players never try the same tactics, not even when I was DMing Curse of Strahd.

There is a very clear, and intentional, differentiation between Objects and Subjects/non-Objects in 5e (e.g. DMG pg 246). Therein lies your answer.

No-one here can tell you you're wrong, just offer an opinion. Even old-timer DM's like me are never too old to learn and change, even if it takes much practice. Anyway, personally, in the case of the rope, I'm reminded of the very early Conan story, The Tower of the Elephant. Conan and Taurus...

I'd switch the question around and say, "as DM, are you trying to trick the players into bad decisions, or help them understand the situation and make an informed decision?" See, these arguments usually only occur when the players don't have perfect information, so assumptions get made...

Most players are not especially good at giving useful feedback, especially in a public forum. Totally depends on their personality types, of course, but usually when I've asked for feedback it hasn't given me much if anything to actually act upon. As a DM, I see it as part of my job to look...

Some good advice here, the thing I'll add is try not to punish your rogue's player for actually caring enough to create an optimised character. If their PC is OP compared to the others, feel free to let your players sort that out, if indeed it might actually be a problem (which it probably is...

I have a really simple rule that has worked really well ever since we started testing the 5e rules all those years ago - the Player who this Affects reads the PBH and Works it Out before play starts. If they really need or want to, they can tell me how it works, but as DM I find I usually...

I have the original box set, and it was rubbish. Some of the regional expansions that came afterwards were better, but unless you liked the Dale-lands, the original boxed set was very thin. So updating it to 5e would be completely pointless.

Along those lines is fine - the level of detail you require depends on how you are used to running things vs making stuff up; personally I tend to map out ideas for a week or two prior to a session, make too many notes, then at the table I actually don't refer to my notes much at all, but then...

I would recommend it has some structure, which guides and/or forces you to go from once area before the next. So for example, you start in Prime Material, and have to do something to enter the Feywild. There, you have to do something else to enter the Shadowfell, and finally you have to do...