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A lot of the advice in this thread is "beginner DM" advice, so I'll give a little "advanced DM" advice: When preparing adventures don't plan the plot of the story; instead know and understand the motivations of your NPCs/monsters and use those to drive the action - let the story flow as a...

19. No show for a game at least once per quarter to make sure they know how much they depend on you for their fun.

Our current campaign has been going 21 months, and we've played 68 game sessions (scheduled weekly, but rarely do we play every week in any month). We rotate a stable of characters among the seven players (at least 2 characters each; many have 3 or more) and three DMs. We have about a dozen...

Similar for us, but I'd say it's about 3/4 playing and 1/4 hanging out. We have a scheduled start time of 6:30. We're usually well into "game time" no later than 7:00. We play until 11:00 or later (rarely as late as 1:00, but sometimes it happens).

And I received my brand new MM via FedEx today.

This right here. The Battlemaster is a little bit ahead of the curve with 4 dice at 3rd level, but by 5th level they fall back into the middle of the pack with other classes. The Eldritch Knight gets a big jump at 7th level with War Magic if s/he has a good attack cantrip like Booming Blade or...

This. But with less pondering on my part. The "role" in roleplaying is absolutely about playing a part (or personality to use the terminology from the poll) in an unscripted cooperative story.

As I previously mentioned I had my PHB replaced last year. They sent a FedEx guy to pick up my old book and replaced with new in less than 10 days. Yesterday I sent them a request to replace my MM. I got a response within a couple of hours asking for photos of my MM including showing the title...

Are you prone to being a jackass in general or just in this thread? You haven't contributed anything of value to this conversation. Your sniping and gotcha questioning of everyone is ridiculous, infuriating and distracting. Hemlock is one of the most reasonable posters on this board. I'd...

Weekly (mostly) game. 7 total players including the three rotating DMs. If at least 6 of us are available we're playing every week.

I returned my PHB to WotC. Using the Customer Service link above report a defective book. They scheduled a FedEx (or UPS?) pick up of my old book and sent me a new one; no questions asked, no cash out of my pocket. Whole process took maybe a week? My MM is in the same sad shape now, but I...

-5 to hit/+10 damage significantly increases the character's average damage against low to mid AC opponents and marginally reduces average damage against highest AC opponents (excepting the rare case of needing a 20 to hit before taking the -5 penalty). That's how the rule works, and it's...

This is the "irrelevant argument' at which you should stop and pay attention. If you're finding that the use of these feats reduces your enjoyment in the game either change or eliminate them. There is no doubt that both feats are extremely effective. There's a lot of doubt that they are "broken"...

Yes. By level 12 if the most important thing that characters are doing is the same "remove hit points from foes" that you were doing at low levels then you need to think about what kind of challenges your DM is putting you up against. The game should change to recognize new character...

is a gate.

They did offer space for your to write your own answers. I don't recall exactly what I said, but I did say more spells, specifically 'world building' type spells like permanency and such that can have long term impact on the shape (literally and figuratively) of the world.

For pure mechanical awesome: devil's sight - being able to see in magical darkness is incredibly useful and if your character doesn't already have darkvision then it's a no brainer. Eldritch Sight for at-will detect magic is good and saves you a "spell known" slot. Same can be said for Armor of...

On ENWorld two different people had diametrically opposed claims of absolute truth? Unpossible!

In my current campaign, 4 of the 5 original PCs showed up as half elves. WTF?!?! So, we decided we were all siblings. :)

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