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If they were ever to publish a 5e GH setting book, I'd assume that they follow the guidelines of the PHB for the rarer races. Basically that they don't exist in the setting but if you want to include them in your version of GH they give some basic guidance on possible ways.

Regarding the dumbing down of language, I think there's a sampling bias in claiming that people 100 years ago were better educated and more erudite than they are today. You're reading the letters and books of the highest educated people in society, who's primary means of communication at...

Don't forget The Blob.

At the opposite spectrum, my son and a friend last week were rolling their first-ever characters for D&D and the friend rolled a 3 (4d6 drop 1). Despite being an old-school 3d6-in-order kind of guy, I took pity on him and let him reroll.

Glad you had a good time! If you go regularly enough you might find yourself eventually getting invited into a group. When I started playing again I had no friends to play with so I went to monthly meetups and played in one-shots. Eventually one of the DMs said he was starting a new campaign and...

I remember facing some orcs in the Caves of Chaos and making the poor decision to run deeper into their lair. That was a short life.

My son and his friend were blasting through the Rebrand hideout and got themselves down low enough they needed a long rest. They suggested they hole up in a room and I told them absolutely not. If they do that, the rebrands will most certainly regroup and attack them. So they wisely decided to...

What is GoS?

In the megadungeon I ran for the last year, I asked one player to be the mapper but I didn't require them to map based on my descriptions. I would sketch out the dungeon as they went on my chessex battle mat and it was up to the mapper to transcribe that and make any additional notes. This...

Personally once I discovered Target 20 System, I never looked back. http://www.oedgames.com/target20/. 1. Works with descending AC. 2. Doesn't need any tables or lists, just the player's single +X to hit. 3. Keeps monster AC secret. 4. Mentally fast as it uses only addition of small numbers...

From the modules I've DM'd and played, making a memorable module to me all comes down to one thing - creating an interesting environment independent from the PCs, then drop them in or give them an excuse to go there. Any reasonably-sized environment (~30 locations/people) will have multiple...

Wouldn't it be 3d6-6+INT, minimum of 1 point of damage?

Monsters with the same initiative count (ie. Same monster type in group) are using Ready Actions on you whenever they move to flank, then each attack - you just didn't notice because they have the same initiative count. The DMG specifically recommends this (Pg ?) (rather than the DM always...

While most monsters don't have a way of spending healing surges during an encounter, a short rest allows healing surges to be spent - I had just assumed this applies to monsters as well.

Quickest answer is that having the same initiative number doesn't mean that they all act simultaneously - everyone still takes their turn one-by-one. You and monsters have opportunities and powers to act during other people's turns; initiative doesn't matter.

I've come to realize that with the exception-based design of 4e, the DM 'rule mastery' of previous editions is impossible. The best I can hope for is to make sure I keep on top of the players' character builds and adapt to their choices. With 16 classes, each with 2 or 4 builds, many paragon...

Take 10 is a 3.0 rule. I'll leave it up to the many previous threads to explain why Take 10 was 'un-fun' and removed. Passive checks are really just that - passive. A player doesn't instigate them. After carefully reading through the books, reading the forums, and giving it some thought, for...

I think that's why it says no ally is closer than you. That way, you can be the same distance and still get prime shot.

One of my players has the Onxy Dog and no one has any complaints about the expense of the minor action because there isn't really anything the Onxy Dog could do with a minor action (maybe pick up an item). So at the table what we normally see in actions is this: Standard (PC), Standard...

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I hadn't seen anything that would give players healing without requiring the expenditure of surges and it looks like everyone has confirmed that. Until now the PCs have been wandering around in the wilderness with fewer than 2 fights a day, so they've...