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Off-topic, but I seem to recall (from 2nd Ed anyway, where I started), that the chances of success for creating an item were affected by only 1% per +X of Enchantment, so making a +1 weapon was ~75% of success, but going for broke with a +5 was only like 71%? I remember thinking that even as a...

Mild spoilers: When I ran my party through this, they had a Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Monk (who died and left halfway through) and Sorcerer. The Druid healed once or twice, and I don't recall the Paladin ever healing. The fights either tended to be relatively easy or pretty hard for them, without...

Well, I asked because a lot of signature abilities (Extra Attack/Fireball) are gained around level 5, which is 3 levels to your next ASI. A person could be tempted to change starting at level 6, but know that they're delaying an ASI by 1 level (or worse if they wait until 6 for something like a...

Here's a question: Do any of you think that you and/or or your players would multi-class more often if the ASI was treated the same way as a Proficiency Bonus? I.E., you'll get them at 4/8/12/etc. regardless of which classes you pick? (assume that Fighters are adjusted to just be given Bonus ASI...

I thought that there's not actual demons, just a animation that was caused by a singular demon right before the demons were kicked out of the world? Kind of like the curse of Lycanthropy. All of these corpses are being reanimated by the magic/essence of the original demon, but filtered through...

Not very common in my games as a PC or DM. That ASI every 4 levels tends to discourage it unless you're doing levels of 4, and since so many classes end up with significant features at 5th level, that ends up meaning at least 9th level before someone takes another level. Seen a Fighter 1/Wizard...

This leads to the thing I found most appalling in the adventure: If the PCs somehow act smart and are able to get the McGuffin earlier than the end of Chapter 4 through cleverness, the McGuffin itself feels like they haven't "earned" it, and attempts to force the PC to lose it and wipes their...

Yep. Attempting to match the alignment system to fiction typically shows the flaws of the alignment system. How could you define Giles as Lawful Good when he later murders an individual for the greater good? The alignment system itself doesn't handle committing acts of extreme evil for good...

View it as a recipe that's got a lot of great ingredients but is organized in a very confusing way and if cooked as instructed could lead into an unappetizing mess, but if some work and creativity is applied into it, could result in a fantastic meal. The amount of work is up to you, but some of...

When I DM'd this, I wondered what the intended experience was supposed to be. It almost seems like you need to run this on a Meta level like you described. There certainly isn't a lot of natural information flow to the PCs to make appropriate decisions to solve the adventure as written.

Other than a home base for players to hang out, it didn't end up being that much involved in our running. My players were initially interested in tooling around with it, but after the first ten-day where they rolled a 95 on "Running a Business", they managed to cover their costs and make a...

This was one of those bizarre adventures to me. It's getting lots of love in reviews, but I have to wonder how many of those are from people reading through it as opposed to actually running it, because it's a huge mess. Lots of great idea, but horrible execution on so many things. You CAN make...

If you don't mind, I'm going to use a variant on this idea, minus some of the Faction stuff (mostly because I didn't set them up ahead of time). My PCs found the Box last night as the last encounter of the evening, and are intrigued by what's in the box, along with the requisite Se7en quotes...

I still remember a 3.X adventure called "The Ettin's Riddle" where the key aspect of the riddle was it was using the Player's Handbook description of a Cleric to guess the answer, which was related to a Cleric somehow offending their deity and being turned into an Ettin in penance. I read the...

But they did make a Dragonlance movie 10 years ago, well, an animated film. They even got a few big names for the voice-acting. And it bombed, and is currently sitting at 4.9/10 on IMDB. But if you were wanting to go that route, I would recommend starting with another animated series, and get...

Ran this last night, worked out really well. Players were very happy with the presentation. Thanks again.

Have you read this? https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=680

Melee attacks against an unconscious person are automatic Crits, hence 2 Death Saves. Plus, at least one other person mentioned the fact that NPCs can truly be killed when they reach 0 HP as well. When they drop, the player states whether the final blow was lethal or not, and they are then...

Thanks all. Downloaded paint.net and it seems to be what I need. See my previous post including the image from what my PCs have explored so far from Level 1, which was done using the layers feature you all mentioned.

Thanks. I pondered using PowerPoint, but didn't think it was the best tool for this what I wanted to do. It seems better for having a lot of discrete map areas as opposed to a single large map that gets gradually expanded in a variety of ways, depending upon where the PCs go. I suppose I could...