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I believe it's not about size. A dungeon is a place where one, or at most, two factions of villains practice their villainy with temporary living accommodations. And a band of heroes might clear it in half a day of adventure. A megadungeon is a place where more factions are not only practicing...

Here are a list of ideas, mainly cosmetic. Some with real gameplay impacts. The player who holds it gradually becomes left handed if not already. The player's touch becomes unnerving to other creatures. They feel like a sting of pain at the slightest brush of his main hand. Whatever the...

Maybe the mage suffered a loss that makes him/her want to be free of emotions. Maybe the ritual to attain lichdom is in fact a failure. Maybe the first mortal to try and accomplish the ritual had another idea in mind (godhood or something else) but his/her failure is still passed on as a mean...

My player's party just made it to Omu. They breezed through the jungle since they were lv 7 when they started the campaign. Their character made it through the first part of Out Of The Abyss, and I decided to run TOA in between the two parts for a change of scenery. The plot hook is they have...

If I'm right, the average "adventuring day" is tailored around 6-8 average encounters per day. Wich is a big amount of encounters. If you run less encounter per day, I suppose you can reduce the amount of xp in proportion. But honestly, I'd rather do away with the whole xp system. Gold, magic...

Average amount for each opponent. If the first one drops too fast or I feel like the combat will be too easy or if my init roll for all the monsters sucks I give them all max hp. I have this unspoken rule that either I adjust their HP on the fly at the very start of the fight before any of the...

Since you mentionned me (thank you for you kind words ^^), I would say: thinking about how to go the extra length to penalize a player on the things his class is most good at is a bit overkill. A Wizard with disadvantage on most of his attack rolls, intelligence checks and saves will already...

I never use more than 2.5x the number of player. That's the absolute maximum. Because it gets dangerous, even with lowly monster, because each of them as a chance to crit. And also because it's a pain to run. The Monster's Book has plenty of options to provide a challenge without relying on...

It all really depends on the frequency of the encounters you throw at your players. For example, I'm running OoTA with this rule, and since they run into trouble in the underdark wilderness only every two or three days ( two times a day if they're particularly rash or unlucky), it hardly slows...

I use the following houserules: 1 - Exhaustion When a player gains a level of exhaustion, he/she chooses one of his stats and suffers a disadvantage penality to all related rolls (skills, saving throws, attacks...). If all her/his stats are affected, he dies. I was reluctant to give players...

Hello Everyone, I'm 33. I live in France. I play a lot of D&D5. I work as a translator and writer. Looking forward to share with you about my favorite games!