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Very rarely I will adjust enemy/NPC HP during a combat depending on how hard/easy things are going, particularly if I feel like my encounter difficulty was off. I will also have monsters flee, or reinforcements betray their allies and leave, or have a monster act non-optimally during an...

"Hey folks, come on over to my Martini Bar" "You're limiting my choices!" "You're removing my agency as a drinker" "You're a terrible bartender!" ;) Overall, I agree with @Remathilis and @Minigiant, and what others have said in the thread is that there is no "DnD", per se. We all use the...

I might buy this if I every time a DM (new or old) comes onto these boards, or other boards I’ve frequented, asks about curating races for a campaign, or limiting the options of PC races, and then been jumped on for “limiting choice”, “being a bad DM”, or “removing player agency.” Overall...

I would have the player who is readying identify when they will cast magic missile: 1) When an enemy begins to cast a spell? (Any enemy, the first enemy?) - ok. 2) When an enemy goes invisible? For me, that's not a sufficient trigger. What happens if they Misty Step? It looks like...

My biggest concern is that they have a set taxonomy based on color. Only Red ones do this, only Silver ones do that. For my next game (granted this is 2e Ad&d), I'm making those color based abilities "tales your grandpa told you." You can believe them if you want, but IF you ever meet a...

Ditto. My experience over 40 years follows a path from early learning of how the game "works" (meaning, we didn't know squat), so it was mostly fighting with maxed ability scores, and much dying, to battling against the "adversarial" DM, but having a blast doing it (although I'm not sure he...

But you have to be careful, attacking intelligently is a fine line from "punishing a character for using their abilities as written" :rolleyes: My NPCs would need a good reason to focus fire on one PC, unless it was obvious they were the source of an effect. If the whole party has a "glow" or...

Bolas Type: Exotic (or Simple) Ranged Weapon Cost: 1 gp Weight: 2 lb Proficiency with a Bolas allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it. A Large or smaller creature hit by a Bolas is Grappled until it is freed. A Bolas has no Effect on...

If I must just list one in each category (my earliest inspirations): Movies: Krull TV: Farscape Video Games: Valheim (I don't play many DnD ish video games)

Black Company - Glen Cook Misplaced Legion - Harry Turtledove

We used FR for a really long time, 1e, 2e, 3e, and 5e. Switching to Greyhawk was great because most of my players (and we've been gaming together for 40 odd years) don't know Greyhawk as well (or at all, really), so its a blank slate for homebrewing while keeping the countries, deities, etc...

It really ends up depending on how often the party needs perception in the dungeon/house/castle/whatever using Darkvision. If using a module or adventure, it might come up more frequently. When I ran my game, and everyone had Darkvision or the Twilight super Darkvision, even the disadvantage...

I just started two different campaigns with two different groups In Greyhawk in a ‘homebrew’ game. One group is using Beyond the Wall for characters and gameplay based in Sterich, and I’m incorporating some of the BtW concepts into the game. The other is running out of Veluna and Furyondy...

I'm finally realizing that my avoidance of mounts and carts and such has always been that our DM always did wandering monsters, always made even the cities dangerous, etc. So no one ever bought a house or established a base (it would get broken into, burned down, whatever), or bought mounts or...

Having played wizards with and without familiars, and DM'd for a 5e chain pact warlock with Imp, I still don't really think the familiar fits in with what 5e (or really all editions of DnD, are about). In the research I've done around familiars in mythology, folklore, etc., there is actually...

And I'll contrast with @Helldritch, showing how different tables handle their games: I would take that Dwarf, and that background, and roll it into the "homebrew" sandbox that I am running. However, I would also have you play that Dwarf and that background, with the other characters/players...

Its easy: 5e: Character with 172 HP goes down to one HP. Rest overnight. Returns to 172 HP (Heals, resets game state, resets resources, whatever) 1e/2e: Character with 172 HP goes down to one HP. Rest overnight. Returns to 2 HP. (Natural healing, whatever) So its considered...

Agree about liking 5e, but it also requires me to do so much futzing (as a DM who plays with optimizers), that it becomes unfun for me (directly to the adversarial vs cooperative DM). That being said, I also think a lot of the disconnect (at least for me) around these discussions has to do...

I think I get what @tetrasodium is saying. Basically, the DM/GM would be able to hand out and sprinkle those additional weapons, powers, and abilities across their game as suited the DM/Game. Thereby allowing the DM to sculpt the game. 5e has taken that "ability" from the DM, for the most...

Agree fully. Though in our campaigns, the magic items came and went, it was only the Staff of the Magi, the Vorpal Sword, Holy Avenger, for ex, that were 'signature elements'. Most of the time that +2 sword was dumped overboard for that +3 in a heartbeat. And heck, who didn't have a whole...