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Well, if they didn't die, it was not a "kill." ;) My group also had a total party defeat last session and ended up captured (the 3rd time of the campaign!)

Well, if they didn't die, it was not a "kill." ;) My group also had a total party defeat and ended up captured (the 3rd time of the campaign!)

I like/want generic lore that is phrased like “Vecna is often said to be/have/do X, Y, and Z,” where at least two of X, Y, and Z are contradictory. Anything definitive or more specific should either be specific to an adventure (not even a setting book) or homebrew.

My group used speed factors from 1989 to 2000 when we switched to 3e. But then again we also used weapon type vs. armor type. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Quick update, the crazy excel spell spreadsheet is basically done (I need to go back and add a category for spells that were revised or renamed and where to find the new version) but currently I am going through each class's chapter and making edits and adding some tables in place to clarify...

Back in the early and mid 80s when I was first playing I probably heard it both ways (drow as in "grow" and drow as in "cow") about 50/50. But as time went on and definitely by the early 90s, the former pronunciation died out in my circles and I never heard it again (except in derision of the...

Ya think the Sea Ghost is big. . . check out the Emperor of the Waves from Salvage Operation!

You are not wrong, but that degree of swinginess is a feature, not a bug to me. Some adventures are short sidetreks and others may be multi-part epics and that gives me some leeway in terms of when to award XP and how much. Sessions, on the other hand, as I suggested, might cover as little as...

So the inspiration for this thread was not actually my campaign that has lasted 56 sessions so far. It was joining a campaign that was about 25 3-hour sessions in, where the characters are around 8th level. It made me realize that my in-person group, who had just completed around the same...

I think that was a thread I started!

After last year’s post on this subject I told myself I would keep better track this year, and then promptly didn’t. 🤷🏾‍♂️ But I mostly spent $ on minis and similar accessories. The few books I got were gifts.

I used "would" over "should" very purposefully. "Would" suggests what you imagine they'd be given your general view and experience of 5E. "Should" suggests there is a right or wrong answer, which I definitely am not remotely suggesting or believe.

I don't know. . . I am sure you can find something interesting to contribute regardless. Like, at what level do you generally end a campaign? How many sessions is that? Are they 3 hour sessions? Etc. .

Yes.

A relatively simple question as the title suggests. . . Given 56 sessions, each lasting approximately 3 hours (sometimes 15 minutes more, very rarely 15 to 30 minutes less), involving 4 players (and no deaths), what level would you expect the party to be in a 5E game? For the sake of the poll...

Quasar an elf I rolled up using B/X rules in 1983, only to arrive at the table on actual game day to learn there was this thing called AD&D and "elf" was not a class and they didn't allow multiclassing. So I played Quasar as a fighter for one session. I don't think I played another PC (only...

Yes. And a couple of other similar examples. . .

I don't announce DCs, I prefer to simply describe it as "You think it is easy/medium/hard. ." whatever it would seem to be (and probably is, but not always) and then the actual DC can be within a range of that number without them knowing for sure, and that way they can roll and decide if they...