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Yeah, Attack Wing is a no-go for minis, IMO. You can do way better on price at CSI, MM, or eBay. I've spent way too much on minis. I have a combination of prepainted, reaper, star wars, and the D&D collector's stuff from GF9. If you're fortunate enough to have access to a skilled and...

I fall into the first use-case here, I currently use Roll20 to facilitate a hybrid game, linking my iMac to a splitter that runs the player view to a projector table and a big screen TV. In addition to Roll20, I actually already own a lifetime ultimate license and all the D&D goodies for Fantasy...

Agreed. Especially if you're trying to build something beyond a sack of hitpoints with direct damage attacks. If I were to guess, I'd say the two parts of prep that take up the most time for me are maps and custom statblocks. I don't even use custom statblocks that often, mostly I just reskin...

Ditto to this. Half the reason I buy the APs is to look at the included NPC stat blocks, especially to see where they fall on the CR spectrum given their role in the world. Chris Perkins mentioned on twitter that greater deities aren't statted out, but they have avatars that are roughly the...

Relevant twitter exchange with Chris Perkins.

I switched to milestone after the Hunting Lodge when I realized my PCs would be going into Skyreach at level 6. Knowing that they were going to be fighting a vampire and an adult white dragon, I made the transition, handwaved everyone to 7th level, and haven't looked back since.

Yeah. Tier system doesn't really make sense anymore. You can do it, but it's not as meaningful as it once was. Exception being Beastmaster, which I agree is bottom tier or whatever you want to call it, unless I'm missing something. Whenever I see these lists, I'm always like "Hm. Interesting...

Typically when roleplaying gets stale, it's indicative to me that the group needs to take a break for a while. YMMV. That being said, I don't have a problem with PCs inflicting major wounds on enemies that incur lasting penalties because the difficulty of an encounter is typically high enough...

I run a group of pretty well-organized PCs that are tactically quite competent and well-equipped. I find that the above scenarios you describe were starting to occur with increasing frequency as I ran them through pre-written modules - many of the encounters in these are extremely bland. Here's...

One of the things that can really enhance this module, I think, is fleshing out some of the NPCs a bit more. Langderosa Cyanwrath is a memorable villain because he's so overwhelmingly powerful when the PCs first encounter him, but most of the other fights in the module aren't as lopsided and...

Funny you should ask. That Vampire ended up having a fairly interesting demise and yes, it did involve grappling her. The ogres wound up targeting the PCs only - they recognized the Vampire as a friendly. The Vamp ended up hustling out of there with legendary actions. The party tried to pursue...

Wow.... I... I literally never realized you could use dancing lights that way. Suddenly this spell seems so much more useful. I never understood the point of it before. That said, I want to support what was said here: something similar happened in my campaign a couple weeks ago, inadvertantly...

No worries. This is a great writeup, I'll pick up the book today since I trust your analysis more than most on these boards. I've seen you mention this before and I really like it. Have you codified your parameters for evaluating the efficiency (and therefore, under your system, difficulty of...

I honestly haven't had a chance to pick it up, but the party sorc has asked me about it. I may have been a bit quick to say "no" but I wanted to wait until some wiser minds had taken a look through it to help me know what to keep an eye on as far as potentially disruptive or imbalanced spells...

70 skeletons!? This is crazy! I'm just curious, how do you manage combats at this scale? I use Roll20 which is great for managing a ton of creatures at once, but after running a fight against like... 20-30 bullywugs and giant frogs, I got kind of turned off to the concept (PCs bottlenecked them...

Yeah, this is the one I have. Either DM David or Slyflourish made a bunch of tables specifically designed to fit into the mini version of this. They were pretty good. I no longer use a DM screen (my iMac functions as this for me) since I use a hybrid physical/digital DM style where I project the...

I can only handle so much ENworld in one day for this reason. So much of the D&D online community seems to be absolutely toxic. I started going to the forums when I came back to D&D after a long hiatus, as a dungeonmaster for 5th. I wanted to see all of the cool stuff and ideas that creative...

My speculation is based primarily on what we have seen Wizards do thus far and the questions they're asking and the way they're asking them. What they're asking One thing that stood out to me is how the most recent survey asked me what adventure paths I had completed and was currently playing...