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That's actually an excellent theme for this type of exercise, because it does some of the heavy lifting for you. You don't really have to work too hard at emotionally engaging the players, since they'll be the ones in danger and they'll be engaged by default in self-preservation. You basically...

I'd recommend reading over "Don't Prep Plots" by Justin Alexander. Come up with a situation that can be resolved within 3 hrs of gameplay, and keep combat encounters small/on the easy side. Personally, I always like to start with the antagonist and his motivations. Then I just keep asking...

If these are more of the same standard configuration sheets just layed out slightly differently, I'm not interested. I'd like to see a character sheet where everything is arranged with an eye toward quickly locating pertinent information; not simply grouping skills, traits, and ability scores in...

No. Invisibility specifically states, "The spell ends for a target that attacks or casts a spell." You're doing neither here. It depends on how you interpret the rule for using an item. Personally, I think magic items should be special. Technically, since you're using an action to play an...

Or they just disagree with you. There is that. Quantity of skill proficiencies as a part of class identity is a past-edition paradigm. 5E uses Expertise instead.

Since a primary tactic of drow has long been to incapacitate opponents with sleep poison, that their most hated opponent has always been other elves, and that elves have been immune to magical sleep in every edition I can remember, I'd say that sleep poison probably works on elves.

If it didn't work the way your player is using it, I don't see why they would give it a duration of 8 or 24 hours. The way I play and DM it, it's "up" as long as the PC wants to maintain concentration within the duration.

why do you want to play a large race?

That sounds awesome! Nice work; I'll totally steal this at some point.

This is a classic problem that shows up at many tables, so you're not alone. The bottom line is that this is a real life problem, and needs to be dealt with in real life, not in the game. In my opinion and experience, the group needs to stop enabling him. By choosing not to kick him out to...

As a player, I wouldn't stand for it. I'd ask the DM to trust me to play my character, just as I trust him to adjudicate the game fairly.

2d6+6, reroll 1s and 2s

Naturally, since you didn't design the game, nor do you have the authority to issue official rulings. I don't necessarily agree with everything Jeremy Crawford says, but I also understand that when I choose to do things differently at my table, it's a house rule. :)

It's rather comical that you accuse him of making the same mistake you are guilty of in this very thread. See above.

My apologies for being unclear; that's exactly what I meant to imply. You and I are in agreement.

That's untrue. A dragon's multiattack allows it to use Frightful Presence then make several attacks, all of which are attacks. Breath weapons never enter the equation.

Whenever I start having problems like this, I first ask myself it I might be the problem. For example, are my gods worthy of respect? Sometimes I think I've come up with some amazingly cool thing, and the players are totally unimpressed. Second, I'd simply ask the players about it. If you have...

After a long hiatus from roleplaying, I finally got a group together to play this past weekend, and it turned out to be one of the best sessions I've run in a long time. The setup: I knew going in this group would take a planned adventure off the rails quickly, and I prefer a sandbox game...

If anyone's curious, here's some email traffic between myself and Hillside games since last night. My initial message to Hillside Games:Dear Hillside Games, Your recent actions with regard to The Wyvern's Tale are deplorable. Cybersquatting on your competitors' domain name may have seemed a...

You should check out their addendum then. They apparently (and obviously, IMO) never considered gender rules a serious option.