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Oh I see, fair enough then. This wasn't clear from the first post. If it's accepted that randomness is a feature of the campaign, that should be absolutely fine. Personally I would focus on buffing or fighting though, rather than trying to land save or suck spells since you'll find that...

Sounds cool and makes sense that monsters would be emboldened. If the heroes are like officially sanctioned asskickers, it also makes sense they'd be deployed first. Is there supposed to be a diplomatic option for dealing with the situation? Like are the monsters just killing anyone who comes...

If this is nearby a city, why do they even need adventurers? Just send out an army. The adventurers themselves are probably wondering the same thing. A city that needs adventurers every time they have an oopsie is advertising it's weakness to other kingdoms/cities. Anyway, no I wouldn't change...

Are you guys really advocating low score casters? Great advice guys. This is the bit where you tell me you run these characters "all the time" and how your group ''really really" supports your low score caster roleplaying choice because its soooooo unique and special.

If he doesn't mind not being effective and having the group roll their eyes every time he casts a spell, sure it sounds like a fantastic character.

What LordEntrails said. If the spell said "affects enemies" I'd let it affect all the drones without having to identify them but this says you must "designate creatures you can see" so I reckon you have to specifically select who gets affected and who doesn't. Having said that, I'd let the...

Not that I can think of. You'd have to make it up. I'm not sure how you'd get the menace of Alien across either. Remember the PCs are warriors so it might be more analogous to Aliens than Alien.

Yikes. Transformers are Hasbro. Anyone want to take a guess at the "universal truth" of Transformers?

Yeah, could be pretty traumatising. Like what if your parents were swingers and an aboleth, a leprechaun and a treant turned up?

You :) are disturbingly :) free with smiley :) faces. :) lol Our group doesn't really worry about this in civilised regions and even in wilderness, there's usually someone with survival skill who can forage. However, if they're in wilderness and there's no one proficient in survival... well...

For me, it's that the sub-classes play it too safe. The class ideas are pretty awesome but the actual execution is conservative and underwhelming, especially in the upper levels. Having said that, I'm not sure adding more feats is the answer. As Tony mentions below, you're potentially just...

All of these criticisms are valid but we must remember that it was the devs who designed this woeful and pathetic class in the first place!!! The thing that gets my goat is the way they obviously rolled this out without any QA or testing!

Exactly, anything you use on the PCs will be used on your NPCs so be careful when setting this kind of precedent, especially because they'll pull it out at the most unpredictable moment. Like talking to the king...

Isn't it just initiative? If you like you could give the NPC advantage on it but he can't catch the PCs unawares. He's a hostile NPC casting a spell right in front of them. The only way he could get away with it is if he was using sleight of hand to conceal the spellcasting and even then I would...

But back on topic, ideally the method of their demise should cynically reflect their curiosity and thus the authors folly at introducing such a stupid race. 11) a villain gifts the kender with a huge statue of, I dunno... Tasslehoff for kenderholme. When it gets in position a magic trigger...

Yeah you could explain it away like that but they were allied enough to create a city together in the first place and even enemies will (temporarily) put aside their differences to work together against a common foe. Especially wizards, who are generally looked upon with suspicion by regular...

Oh, I thought you meant Dragonlance would be destroyed by a Kender Apocalypse. I can't support destruction of Kender. They are a cool race. If anything, Fizban and Elminster should elevate them to a race of god beings so they can go to other settings and spread cheer and irrepressible...

ZERO extra hp. If you want to play a death-at-0 game, giving extra hp is just kidding yourself.

It's just a game man, it's really not that sad.

Maybe a third to half the session. Occasionally if the PCs are dithering, they don't even get to a combat encounter and spend an entire session planning or talking to NPCs.