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The marilith is a nifty monster who gets six reactions each round, one for each arm. She can use those to parry, increasing her AC 17 by +1d6 each time someone attacks her with a melee weapon. Add on advantage for any magic save, and half damage from most elemental damage, and she's a tough...

Yup. I run into this myself; until recently I had one player out of 6 who really loved 4e's tactical combat. I wasn't crazy about it, and prefer to not always use miniatures during combat, but we made sure there was a balance of both types. And (to get my part of the thread back on topic) I...

This is one of those rare cases where making a point was more important than looting. Although one PC did say, "let's give it a few months for monsters to move in, then hire a bunch of low-level adventurers to burrow down there and clean out the newly-made dungeon."

Folks, a gentle reminder to everyone: it's fine if other people don't agree with you. Please stay away from insults (including sly backhanded ones) and ascribing intent to other people. I'd much rather the thread stay interesting. I mention this now to forestall problems later.

Rotgrub, I don't think I'd agree with that at all. Can you please give some examples?

In my high-lvl game the other day, a wizard cast meteor swarm on top of an enemy's mansion, followed by earthquake to swallow the burning remains down into the earth. It was a stylish form of urban renewal. 30 seconds and boom, no more mansion.

Two campaigns, but both are converted from 4e: Elven Rogue/thief Dragonborn Paladin (unrevealed playtest vow) Tiefling warlock (unrevealed playtest patron) Half-elf warlock (Great Old One) Half-elf bard of valor And in the other game: Human rogue/thief Warforged (house ruled) wizard/evoker...

Right on. I've provisionally converted my two 4e campaigns over to 5e (20th lvl in 4e became 15th lvl in 5e) and so far, a couple of games in, things are going wonderfully. In one game the PCs are tasked with removing a self-proclaimed empress of a rebellious province, but it's complicated—the...

As a side note, I'll never understand the impetus to play a character with mechanics that the DM hates. If my DM hates psionics, and I want to play a psion, it's pretty unlikely that we'll find cool psionic monsters or treasure or NPCs or organizations in the world that my PC can relate to...

Again: allowing new mechanics, or not allowing them, can have nothing to do with trust in the players. Nothing. And I put the word in italics and everything, so you know I must be serious. My watchword when dealing with player requests: is it fair? Is it fun? An easy example: I love plenty of...

I love the adventure, but man, I find that the locations and NPCs suffer fairly badly from what my players call "bad naming syndrome."

This is excellent. Yoink!

It would suck less if it were cast as a reaction, I suppose.

I totally have that bias. That's how our games work: DM sets the boundaries, players create characters within those boundaries. (They can lobby for expanded rules, but no is no.) It's good to be reminded that other peoples' campaigns work differently. An even better reminder! It doesn't affect...

Wood elf ne'er do well who started as a pirate before being trained by a captive as a monk. Now retired from piracy, he still takes advantage of all the acrobatic skill he learned reefing the sails when he adventures in land. His pirate captain considers him a traitor and wants him dead… and...

I see a huge difference between the DM having a vision that he'd like the players to adhere to, and the DM being generally dismissive of player agency. I love it when the players change the world. For me, that's the whole point of our D&D campaigns. That's an entirely separate issue for me than...

I try to be really clear to my players about what's allowed, disallowed, and just discouraged. For instance, I don't love the flavor of dragonborn as written. I don't dislike them enough to disallow them, but were I starting a new campaign, I'd either rewrite the flavor (and inform players of...

Fantastic story! We have SPOILER and SBLOCK tags to use for spoilers, so I swapped yours over.

Ah, the Blowfish Kid, bitten by a rogue mutant blowfish in the same seafaring incident that killed his parents. Truly, all of Liberty City owes him a debt of awesomeness. :D

That's really something. Not heroic, but your players will talk about this for years.