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Might be kinda cool if it starts with the players being revived from the dead. Not sure how it'd work but putting the heroes on a timer always makes 5e sing.

How do you handle skills?

Sounds fine to me. You probably don't need to go easy on them. The Druid can turn into a beast and the Bard and Druid are both great healers. Sorcerer and Wizard offer a lot of utility. You'll have 2 characters with high charisma, one character with high wisdom and one character with high...

Yeah, the economy in my campaign is pretty weird. Players rolled their stats and they are all super weak, they have no starting equipment and leveling requires GP. So having extra money will be some high level stuff and buying crappy single-use magic items shouldn't over-power them.

I am working on the exact same thing I think. I'm calling them augments and I'm using them as a way of letting players buy weak magic items in my campaign, but it's a pretty weird campaign. Anyway, you can buy weapons, armor, spell focuses and amulets with up to 5 Augment Slots. They have 3...

Sorry, my little joke at the end probably threw people off. They do take some notes. I just wanted to make it part of the in-universe fiction with a prop. I was (and still am) trying to spare ya'll the gritty boring details of my next campaign, haha.

Our next 5e campaign is about to start. I was thinking of getting my players on of these: https://www.amazon.com/Dungeon-Chronicle-Pages-Catherine-Thrush/dp/0991478878 Just as a fun souvenir for keeping the notes. Has anyone used one or a nice looking product like it? Any thoughts? How many...

I'm not sure I understand where this conversation has gone and how people are using the idea of "metagaming" as a negative for DMs. If there is a dragon living near the village that eats people, it stands to reason that people would know not to go there the same way I know not to go to certain...

Can you export player sheets as pdfs yet?

I see what you mean about the races, but at the same time the racial modifiers make it exceptionally harder/rarer for certain races to reach that peak and by the time they can, they are essentially superheroes anyway. Not to mention, most tables would let you make an unusually tall halfling or...

In my next campaign you'll just start with an inspiration point. You can only spend it when taking actions that are thematic with your traits. You get it back by invoking your flaw. That way, it's the player's job to remember. As is, I also use it as a carrot for characters who lose a...

Out of curiosity, what is the omission?

This sounds smart as heck. Is there a demo module I can mess with?

How long do official modules usually take to drop onto Roll 20 and FG? Day and date?

This has all been super helpful. Thanks so much ya'll. HONESTLY, I think this thread has convinced me to try just sticking to google hangouts and TOTM gameplay. I kinda assumed that running Tomb of Annihilation on a VTT would take most of the prep work out, but it sounds like this is not the...

This is exactly how I think about it and I haven't found any issue with it in practice. If I need something to be more nuanced than that, I can just say it is and let the player go through.

Thanks! And, no this will be just for fun. The problem you describe is exactly why we normally play TOTM. I'm wanting to use this asa chance to do something different.

I am thinking of running Tomb of Annihilation for some friendly acquaintances. My regular group will be pretty busy with our normal campaign, but I wanna try it. So, with that in mind, I am considering Roll 20 or Fantasy Grounds. In my home games I NEVER use a map or minis, but part of that is...

Maybe or maybe not. In 5e, money is usually not a big deal but even assuming players had a lot of wealth I don't see a ton of players (in my games) wearing something heavier than half-plate at level 4. On the other hand, Warforged Barbarian and Monk builds could be pretty interesting. At higher...

Ah sure. Makes sense. Yeah, I think I was erring on the game balance side and letting melee attacks bounce further forward on the scale just because I don't want to DM a bunch of fire fights.