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If daggerheart was to upend anything, it would be due to the clout of Critical Role rather than the system. And Daggerheart is honestly not that different enough from dnd to upend anything imo. Now will the fame of CR get a lot more people to try it than most other indie RPGs....sure I believe...

I have done zero prep before. Basically its the classic "you all are in a bar and X happens" and then we go. A few important notes: 1) Now the key is, you have to be exceptionally good at improv as a DM. If you aren't relying on plans, then you have to be able to pivot and create on the fly...

Yeah this was my main complaint. Its not that I cannot find the devils in the new book (it is more work but I can find them), but so often I find that when I am using monsters I rarely go "I want an IRON golem, I want a BLACK dragon, I want an ICE devil".... instead I start from "I want some...

most notes about "cultural appropriation" I think are complete BS....but I do respect the offense of taking something that in that culture requires dedication and the earning of through some task and then just having it "because you like it". That one makes sense to me.

The OG Thread: D&D General - The Big Thread of Interesting Combat Examples In order to keep that other thread as a nice tight reference, this thread is for any commentary on the fights, questions, things you think could be tweaked etc.

The purpose of this thread is to provide examples for people of combat's you ran (not just thought of) that went very well. Combat's that were interesting and exciting to your players. This provides a nice reference for DMs who want to add more spice to their combats. For people's convienience...

The debate seems to primarily wage on this quote from the DMG (not sure if this is 2014 or 2024 or both). Normally, creatures in the Border Ethereal can't attack creatures on the overlapped plane, and vice versa. A traveler on the Ethereal Plane is invisible and utterly silent to someone on the...

If I can see an ethereal creature with lets say See Invisibility, is there any effect, magic item, or spell that can actually injure an ethereal creature? Or do I simply have to be on the ethereal plane?

The million dollar question (which I as a long veteran DM can no longer answer) is....how do newer DMs pick their monsters? Do they just look at the index see a cool name and go for it? Do they go "ok I want a dragon"....and then just start looking at dragons? Do they just flip pages till they...

I'll go for a real oddball. 3rd editions Hero Builder's guidebook. The character background generator in the book is solid gold. For a dirt cheap price, I can't tell you how many amazing backgrounds were generated at our table by people just rolling on the table and dedicating themselves to...

So I've been using my copy of the 2024 MM for a while now, and I can confidently say, I DO NOT like the organization. I want a devil, don't know what kind of devil I want I just want a devil. Old Book 1) Go to D for Devils 2) Peruse the devils, find the one I like. Or heck, maybe two different...

I ran an avatar of Bane a long time ago as an end boss. What I wound up doing was running like 4 different avatars to represent differnet aspects of Bane. Bane's Divine Body Bane's Divine Will Bane's Divine Power etc each one had different attacks and provided the group some resistance. For...

Ultimately this is a question of, is this a character problem or is this a IRL problem? Aka are you just getting caught up in teh emotions of your character, or do you have a problem with killing in your RPG? If its the later than yes best thing to do is talk with your group and see if that is...

Note that is a medium challenge for 4 4th level PCs, for 5 it would be an easy encounter. And also we all know that a medium challenge is 5e is basically a cakewalk, more of a narrative speed bump than a real fight.

yeah but as they were also some of the more popular classes. so now that most classes have the means to generate saving throws that can cause a boss "big problems" it puts more pressure on the legendary resistance. Now I'm all for that personally, I hated that LR was this weird minigame between...

agreed, you are really rolling the dice on that one.

that last image is solid, really like that one.

I fell asleep during it. It was boooooooooooooooooring.

the first half of the first season, I can respect this notion. I can say it dramatically improved, they toned down the fart jokes and added in a lot more depth of drama and plot. Honestly by the 2nd season it was no longer a ST parody, it was more ST than ST to me.

hopefully they learned some new jokes too:)