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I had them start with a random uncommon item. Worked out well. Otherwise enspelled items for everyone. Or even worse setting your primary score to 19 after leaving at 8.

I agree about orcs getting something but for a different reason. They don't have much of an identity as rogues and monks. I would like their endurance ability to have other uses.

Maybe I wasn't clear, I said if they fail the social encounter then they're going to die. In my game they did fail.

They were able to defeat 2 CR 5 creatures within 1 round? The yugoloth and mezzoloths should both attack on the 2nd round. If you are just having them be static in their rooms then yeah of course.

You can't put them in the air or have them stretching out far without anchoring them.

Yes, 5e was never designed for buying and selling or crafting magic items so the simple rules they added on top are terrible. Consider that an enspelled weapon of Shield costs 200gp and let's the user cast Shield 6 times per day. A 5th level party could have 2 of those for every party member...

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If I remember correctly it was 4 CR 5 and a CR 8 creature all attacking them at once with cloudkill and blindsight and being attacked from all sides in a small room. How could they possibly win that and only 1 die? This is why I disregard when people say that adventures are too easy.

Really? I'm with you generally with the gate-towns because there are just few encounters laid out (though there is still potential for death like being dragged into water). What about the walking castle? If they don't successfully intimidate or bribe the veterans that is a guaranteed TPK as...

I like it. It is in keeping with how they're paying more attention to the creature types. I like the general trend to tie psionics thematically to the far realm. I actually highly dislike psionics in D&D but as something that comes from outside the multiverse it works for me. It's weird and...

Yeah. I hear that a lot too and then I find out the details of what happened. I have a friend who joined a game recently. They had legendary items at 6th level. In that days dungeon they fought the monsters one at a time and wiped the floor with them. Then I read the actual adventure and it...

I run published adventures and find them to be plenty challenging. I follow their instructions on the consequences for when the party rests and I don't run the monsters as zombies. So far the only published adventures I've needed to fiddle with for difficulty has been Planescape and only...

I would assume the dragon would know who best to target with the banish unless the PCs have some well hidden ability that the dragon wouldn't know about.

Yeah, the quality has improved significantly. I've got a decent collection and now I'm just slowly replacing the older ones with the newer versions as they come out. I'd rather pay more for a higher quality mini. I paint too but not quickly. I've seen people with airbrushes who can do a lot...

The thing with high HP or AC is that being the last PC alive doesn't actually help because the character will still die at that point. I'd have to look at the feats again but Durable might be the worst one in the book. The challenge for him is how he both keeps his party members alive and...

The most dangerous thing is that the 120ft only requires line of sight and not line of effect. So the gold dragon can dump them in solid jails with a window. A particularly well planned and cautious one (which would be all ancient dragons) could have anti-magic fields activated when a PC...

There seems to be a misunderstanding of what a 'hard' encounter is. The 20th level party should be able to kill multiple ancient gold dragons in an adventuring day.

The gas spore is just uncommon too!

And hard still assumes the characters will be victorious with minimal losses most of the time. It is just that if they regularly face hard encounters at some point the variance will result in a TPK. I would expect a party at full strength to crush a hard encounter most of the time and that...