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Guess we know what the "Princes of the Apocalypse" adventure book next year will be about! ;)

I'll start running the ToD campaign on late September/early October at a local gaming store, for up to a maximum of eight players, most of whom are total newbies (at least when it comes to 5e). To avoid handing out "dump characters" (i.e. the ones who nobody wanted to pick) to latecomers...

Thanks for the advice, folks! Could an admin or mod move the thread or I'm better of creating another in that subforum?

I'll start running the ToD campaign on late September/early October at a local gaming store, for up to a maximum of eight players, most of whom are total newbies (at least when it comes to 5e). To avoid handing out "dump characters" (i.e. the ones who nobody wanted to pick) to latecomers, I'd...

This has been my experience so far, up to 5th level: casters can inflict A LOT of damage with offensive spells, but are quickly put down in pitched battles,-especially those with a d6 for HD. Martials, OTOH, have lower but consistent damage output and can hold on their own far better when the...

I'm DMing right now, but my first 5e test drive character was a Champion Fighter, so I voted that option

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None. Highest level every reached in a campaign was 14, and it was an exception- most of my campaigns start at low level (1st to 3rd) ant rarely go up above 8th level.

I'm also glad adventurers can't just kill the Sphinx and take the stuff its guarding!

I passed the Sphinx Redirect Loop Riddle! :D Love the art.

Yeah, the issue with RSE wasn't that 'big things' happened in the setting, but that gods died, places were destroyed and so on. I'm pretty sure the ToD storyline -or any future storyline for that matter- won't pull off these kind of things. Or at least I hope so.

Ditto. I would rather have smaller illustrations and more fluff, though to be honest the point of the Tarrasque is that nobody really knows for sure where it comes from, hence the "punishment from the gods" myth. When you don't know why something went wrong, blame the gods.

True, although I wonder why does the Tarrasque needs eyes at all if it has Blindsight

Oh noes, it's Teh Tarrasque :eek: *faints* Love it!

MOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR! :D

I definitely want splatbooks, but not more than twice a year- actually, I'd be happy with one 200+ pages splatbook once a year. Quality over quantity and all that. Regarding adventures requiring splatbooks, I'm pretty sure we're not going to see that. HotDQ doesn't even require the MM and DMG...

This is how I see it: for "storyline" adventures, such as ToD, WotC will publish episodic railroads (which I have nothing against, in fact I'm buying ToD). I think we'll see sandbox-y adventures not related to the "storyline" format or Organized Play, but as far as business decisions go...

This is the best answer I've read so far, hands down.

I think the variant is quite better than the standard benefits because the Feat- I'd have gone with Proficiency in 2 or 3 Skills instead of a Skill and a Feat.

I think it's an interesting mechanic- instead of giving the big monsters a bunch of multiple attacks, they can take their turn and take a number of additional actions spread out during the rest of the round. Makes sense to me.