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To throw another wrinkle in here, the encounter design rules say don't calculate xp for monsters that don't pose a challenge. So 20-30 goblins vs level 10 PCs can be excluded from your encounter difficulty xp calculations.

Introduce a new technology for war. During the battle, the bad guys should roll out some new kind of war machine that turns the tide of battle. Everyone then has to figure out how to handle this unexpected form of attack. This is a common trope in many fantasy stories to make the war exciting...

It is Texas, so is it a Bob Wills message board?

13th Age is great. If you like Fantasy RPGs this one combines all of the best aspects from other games. I also recommend all the Sine Nomine games-Stars Without Number, Scarlet Heroes, Godbound, Silent Legions.

* If what you usually do (kick down the door and fight stuff) isn't working, think about another way to approach the problem. * If you're bored, its because you're boring.

I don't know exactly how Lew formed the analogy, but there is a reasonable chance he read the Michael Lewis story in the NY Times about Texas Tech and the rise of the passing offense and The Blind Side about why the Left Tackle became the second highest paid position in football (because so many...

The rules say OA don't apply to teleporting. The Polearm Mastery feat says you can make an OA on someone entering your reach. So you will have to resolve it yourself with the "Rulings not rules" declaration.

What CR is Morrus?

Knights have virtues and in the game, monsters and situations will "attack" these virtues (force you to make dice rolls, if you fail you go along with the NPC). If you constantly act virtuous its easier for you to resist the bad guys forcing virtue rolls on you. For your class flair, things...

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This sounds like a fun game. Tell me more about the tiefling teenager's mom and dad.

WotC has created new settings, in Magic the Gathering, and ported them over to D&D 5e. Example: Plane Shift: Zendikar.

Tequila Sunrise Do you have some sort of bonus system for people that follow the alignment rules here? Just from a glance, it reminds me a little bit of the Pendragon RPG with its chivalry rules.

I've got a question- is it $3 per month if you buy a year all at once? So its $36 a year, but if I just want one month its $5 or $6? I could see myself subscribing for a month of two, paying $3 to use it at a convention and not haul books around.

Old-school Rolemaster. Where the murder hobo was an actual NPC hobo.

8th level at the time they "died". Thank you, this is a perfect solution for me. The main PC that wanted this rescue mission was the bard (parallels to the Orpheous and Eurydice myth) and this gives me a way to reward the bard's selflessness and fits the challenge of the setting. Dead people...

Wait, that's division by 0. The PCs (intentionally) died to enter the land of the dead so everything they encounter must also be dead. Maybe a zombie ogre.

That's the bargain the PCs made (with an NPC). They wanted something to happen, an NPC struck a bargain, and they've got six sessions to go to the place, do the thing and reverse the deal.

:) No kidding. This Death at 0 variant is more about highlighting a setting (the players chose to visit) than increasing challenge. The death saves just don't match the setting fiction.

The death saves mechanic doesn't match well with the fiction of the setting.