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If my players are talking to some NPC, and then one of them suddenly pulls out a dagger and stabs the NPC, then I will have them roll initiative, and all the other players and the NPCs are surprised until the end of their turn. Therefore, the player who did the stabbing may act before another...

Well that's when the bulk of material was published, so I'm happy with that time period. Before that, there was a lot left undone by Ed, or at least unpublished, from what I understand.

Would love to see that happen, but only if Ed could do the original Forgotten realms circa 1369 or 1372 DR, and ditch all the nonsense that came after that. That's the only way I'd be interested.

I searched on Amazon for the "deluxe DM screen," and all I found was the 4th edition screen. If you're playing 5th edition,then you definitely don't want that one.

I am confused why you believe this. Do you use passive perception at all? If so, do you allow active perception rolls to be worse than what a passive perception would have been?

I have not read it, but I looked it up on Amazon after you mentioned it. It looks really interesting!

I created a chart for how I am handling a magic item economy in my world. Here's the link in case it's useful to anyone else. The prices in the chart are taken from the recent Unearthed Arcana document on downtime. I've made healing potions a bit more abundant in my world, because I use house...

3 out of 5 rating for Tales from the Yawning Portal This is the product I had been hoping WOTC would produce, and I wanted to love this book. However, I only like it. Tales from the Yawning Portal would have been a solid 5 out of 5 if they had done two things better: 1. A better selection of...

They come up in my games all the time. The NPCs use it against the PCs; the PCs use it against the NPCs. Maybe it's a different style of DMing, or maybe your players are't aware of the ways they could use it to their advantage. In my experience, as soon as one of your players tries to make a...

Sounds like the perfect level of difficulty to me. ;) I hear a lot of people say that characters are too hard to challenge in 5th edition. That's certainly not true in the first three or so levels. And I find that if you play the NPC monsters viciously and smartly, then it's pretty easy to...

Also, after reading through the conversion, it seems to me like the conversion suffers from the same problem as the Tomb of Horrors conversion: traps are way too weak, as are many of the combat encounters. Was that your feeling too after running your first session?

Yeah. This works fine in non-combat dungeon-crawl mode where each round is 1 minute. But it is way too long in combat rounds where each round is 6 seconds. That's why I modified this in my home brew. I ruled it as 30 seconds as a minimum for a Con of 10 and below to hold your breath (5...

Sure, do it how you want to. I just think your way is over harsh. This sheet is meant to be an approximation for speed and ease. The sheet still tends to be accurate enough. It already uses the more harsh optional encumbrance rule anyway. So having a small item click over to take up 1 slot when...

Small items are worth a fifth of a slot, so they should not count as a slot until there are 5 of them. It makes sense. Sent from my VS990 using Tapatalk

I like the point buy system. I creates balanced starting characters, which then can become very strong in a few areas as they level. Rolling for attributes is cool if everyone is on board with it, but I wouldn't let them reroll low scores. You're just bumping up character power too much that...

In our group we use the PHB variant encumbrance rules, and we use this tracking sheet to simplify it: http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpgdownloads.php?do=download&downloadid=1232 I highly recommend it. It might meet the goals you have. On first glance, I think your stone conversion might make...

There is probably some truth to that. And if the whole group gels and everyone is on the same level in terms of social interaction.

I dunno. I got my wife into the game (she's 28) and our group consists of two guys and three women. I've DM'd games with four female players and me as the only guy. I haven't found any problem getting women into the game. Find the right cool women, I guess. With a mixed group you can play some...

I made some improvements to the sheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GEjPFvDY3CyiC0ZFpdxNjfHBhZWXyJSDXdToU_Fyc2U/edit?usp=sharing

It is true that 5th edition, and other editions, seem to cater best to long-running groups that can exist through all 20 levels and beyond. I'm lucky in that I have a group like that. We have been playing together for three years and plan to keep going. Even then, we have only run a couple of...