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    D&D 5E (2014) DM Advice: Running a "Climactic" Combat

    You might have to separate them for that to work. Maybe one of them casts a spell and the land under them rises 60ft in the air like an earth node and creates an area of difficult terrain where it was and leaves the smaller bad guys on one side and the PCs on the other. Summon in some more bad...
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    D&D General How Long Did You Play Only D&D Before Trying Another Game

    Think it was a couple years and recall trying Runequest once or twice and tried Twilight2000 once or twice. Cannot recall any others unless the 90s MagicTG counts and the odd convention slot of Pathfinder since no D&D was available.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Eberron - skycoaches and bastions

    Practical, and game practical are far apart. If everyone needs a 5ft square to use, only like 8 people can fit, then add some room for having a cool combat and such. Otherwise, I recall the Army Blue-Bird busses fitting like 80 people with gear.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Eberron - skycoaches and bastions

    Would being able to use the coach's medallion allow you to take over another coach not being used, a bit like carjacking? Would this be a cool ability for the cabbie NPC that comes with the hot-rod garage room to your bastion?
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    RPG Evolution: Eat or Be Eaten

    I think Cragmaw Castle near Phandalin was home to 6-7 bad guy groups of scum and villainy before the PCs had some henchmen settle there and build a proper road.
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    RPG Evolution: Eat or Be Eaten

    @unjulation I usually welcome new members to the site, but welcome to un-lurking, de-lurking? I would tend to say something pithy here, but you know how it works by now. Cheers Creating dungeon ecology can be as real and time consuming as the group wants it. I mean, how many dungeons never...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Two Weapon Fighting and Nick article

    @Hellbard welcome to the site. I was hoping the thread being brought back would mean that something was cleared up, maybe in the new errata or such.
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    D&D 5E (2024) DM Screen inserts & why/why not like the 2024 screen

    The first couple pages look like something any game can use. The last couple are more pirate focused. I like the name list, they always come in handy. The insult list may be a bit too much with some of them, but it does help to get into the spirit.
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    DDAL Jasper DMs Princes of the Apocalyse

    I ran it and made several PWYW supplements for DMsGuild. They mostly follow the adventure book but have a few side quests and such and give you all the statblocks printed out. The mid-level adventures in the valley are easy to side track if the PCs miss some clues and do not find the other...
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    How long before you tire of a thread here?

    I see that it at least has the 'extra absorbency' needed for some threads when people start goin back and forth saying who is more right.
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    How long before you tire of a thread here?

    Sometimes I see the same threads over and over for days and weeks. They keep popping up after I thought it was beaten enough. Some I find stay relevant like the one about memes and the other about people dying. Others I find that I stop looking at them after a point. It might not be a post...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Running several combats in a row

    There could also be a rotation weather on offensive or defensive. Like you say, everyone pulls back to regroup and after an hour or two fighting starts again. Depending on the types of forces, there could be breaks to gather wounded and pray even.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Running several combats in a row

    There is a chapter I think called Leilon Besieged in the After Icesp[ire Peak module called Divine Contention on DDBeyond. The town is attacked by a group of undead and a group of cultists at the same time with both forces trying to get something from the tower in the middle of town. The PCs...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Rate My Encounters for Level 9 PCs

    Is this right? It is just the 1200 is less than the 1800 and way low compared to the 15,600 so I'm not sure if something was types wrong. I never use the budget and just wing things. The encounter look cool though.
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    D&D General Made a list of beginner D&D essentials (and shiny extras) for my fellow dice goblins

    @OhSo welcome to the site, thank you for posting some links. The link seems like it is a site for people to make lists and tag links for third party sites like Amazon. It is an ok list, but the majority of the things are more expensive than what I would say are starter things. The books are...
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    AD&D 2E DM seeking advice

    Maybe the issue is that you both are coming into the game with a memory of how you played 20+ years ago. You thinking how a thief should be played and him thinking how he wants to play it. I also had players who just want to break out and play a game where they can do reckless and silly...
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    How do you handle gems as a GM?

    Good thing Google does, I sure as heck did not. But I see I can get this lot for $12.00
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    How do you handle gems as a GM?

    I had a player last night asking a NPC if they could be paid in black pearls worth 500gp for a job, He just got 6th level spells and wanted to take circle of death, but it costs a 500gp black pearl to cast and he was not sure if he should take it. I think he is taking it now that they are...
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    In-person Game cancelled. What do you play?

    I play with my father, brother, and son when he is not at college. If one cancels we tend to not play. If I know the week before about something, we might play a 1-shot dungeon or play with the henchmen of the main group. I have made some 1-night adventures to play with a B-group of PCs...
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