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Actually if you award XP as suggested and your PCs don't go grinding for levels, then they will most likely be 1-2 levels below the suggested level in the official adventure paths, so there you got your 3 deadly encounters per day.

My players know the damage their attacks make plus I narrate something like "The attack doesn't seem very effective". But I don't tell my players the max HP of a creature, so they first need to fight it once to be able to estimate it. Alternatively my players can also do a nature check on a...

What I mean is that it's wasted if the trigger condition is not met. Because it still consumes the spell slot (unless you use an action to keep readying it, then it wastes a turn instead).

Honestly, if my players really wanted to do something I consider would ruin all the fun, I just honestly tell my players just that rather than making up in-game reasons why it doesn't work. That being said, I'm quite flexible and try to work with player ideas as much as possible, so it takes...

Life Cleric combined with Goodberry Druid = Powerful Heal Wild Shape can also make Druids the best HP sponge tanks that can also heal on top of it. Other than that, it depends a lot of party composition. For example my current party has a lot of "push back" classes, so our Druid just casts...

If a creature is flying, I just strongly abstract it and just declare "If you are on the ground, assume the creature is x feet away from you, no matter where you stand", everything else is just a lot of work for little benefit. (Hint: If the creature only has melee attacks, x is usually half...

Yup, readying a spell is powerful, but also a good way to waste spell slots.

Probably would need to know the context of the surprise. Might very well be that the DM doesn't even play out surprise itself properly. In my games surprise is only really an option around every 5th battle anyway. And usually a PC has a 80% or higher chance to notice at least one threat even...

Well for me, it depends more on behavior than on age. I actually don't even know how old the people are I play with, but if someone misbehaves, I'll kick him out, adult or not. I can see that D&D has pretty dark themes, though I never had nightmares from it myself yet, even though I'm actually...

I'm undecided into what action to take next, so I was wondering what you think: So the situation is that the group went to Sacred Stone Monastery and freed Bruldenthar, who told the PCs his tale. Consequently the PCs know now that the Feathergale Knights (who the PCs are befriended with)...

Pure Adventuring = Talking with NPCs, getting and resolving quests, going to dungeons, fight.

The thread title question is the opposite question as the one in the poll, which probably causes many people to vote the opposite of what they think they do. Anyway, in my games PCs will always stay adventurers that explore dungeons and fight battles. I'm not interesting in political stuff.

I play by post. One post per day.

I played through LMoP the past 2 years and then started PotA, which will probably take 5 more years. After that my plan would be to go for Curse of Strahd. And after that I wanna check out this one, unless something more interesting appears until then.

Let's say a dungeon has a pool or a well and someone falls in. What does cost would you apply to get out of it? Half of your movement? An action?

Well, it's within your power as a DM to determine what constitutes difficult terrain. So yeah, I'd say ruling that for a blind person everything is difficult terrain would be within your RAW powers. However, I personally like 5e because it's simple, so I'd rather not add additional rules on top...

So I haven't played all official adventures yet, but all of the ones I played so far had a sense of urgency for the players, because usually someone was kidnapped and the players are like "Yikes, we need to hurry up or else he is dead before we find him". Granted, the official modules don't have...

I personally, give some responsibilities to my players. Instead of getting the character's backstories and then making something out of them, I give my players the list of possible adventure hooks and then ask them to work their backgrounds into those. I give them suggestions of course in how...

Going by how I read RAW, notice a threat refers to the moment combat begins. If a creature in plain sight starts attacking, then the threat is instantly noticed, even if it was not noticed as a threat before the attack was declared. After all the rules clearly state "If neither side tries to be...

I personally don't let monsters do "called shots" at all. No PC will ever lose his eyes or an arm or something, unless the player of that PC tells me he wants his character to have such a fate.