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How long does combat take with your group? Throw a hard encounter at a group of 5 and its easily in the realm for that combat to take 30 minutes. Push 6 of them before a long rest and you just spent your game session in combat. If that is your style of game that is great but honestly why not...

That has to be one of the dumbest rules in the book by far. I challenge you to run 1 hour of combat. It just doesn't happen and no party would have enough abilities to withstand an hour of combat unless they seriously overpowered it and didn't have to use any of their limited abilities. Your...

That really does sound awesome. Is your site public? Would love to see what you guys did. I am having trouble getting my players to contribute. They know I am not a huge fan of 5E RAW. They don't want to help me modify but they are quick to argue when I do change something.

I have plenty of times. After DMing AD&D 1E/2E for the last 30 years the idea of a 6-8 encounter work day was just not part of my thought process. 6-8 encounters per day exists because of the giant action economy that the players have. If you either don't throw enough encounters at your...

Never said that's how I would play it, just stating the rules on prepared spells.

I think that is why my players loved our Waterdeep campaign so much. I ran the intro AL adventure for Waterdeep to introduce them to the setting. It was a 5 hour session that entirely took place in the Yawning Portal. There was lots of roleplay, combat, lots of skill checks...it was a fast...

Of course you are going to fight lesser creatures also but lets use some examples....at level 5 with a group of 5 players....2 Black Puddings are a medium encounter and they are CR4. They have 85 HP each. If you hit them both with Fireball for full damage you just did a good bit of damage to...

You only need the book if you wish to change which spells are prepared.

I disagree about giving up fireball or lightning bolt. They are both classic class defining spells in older editions of D&D, in 5E though they really are just a shell of what they once were. An 8d6 5E fireball isn't quite what a 6d6 1E fireball was. Everyone has more hit points now and...

I guess it's just going to take me time to wrap my head around a new style of play. Maybe if I spend less time worrying about how fast paced the new style of play is I can just spend more time enjoying seeing some epic level play. After 3 years of running 5E it still feels wrong to me. LMoP...

So what is to stop the player's abusing it by simply casting Leomund's Tiny Hut every night? Sure as a DM you can purposely foil their plans but that is also a dangerous road. Sure a group of intelligent casters might take down their hut but that shouldn't be happening often under normal...

See now I think this requirement alone makes more difference to healing than changing the healing rules. There was never a point in our AD&D games that we actually roleplayed out a week in town while waiting for someone to heal up 1-2hp per day, we just hand waived it. If someone wanted to do...

I would love to hear how others handle this also. When do you allow for a long rest? Can you get a long rest while camped about a fire in the forest with someone keeping watch? How about in a dungeon while holed up in a room? When DO you allow a long rest?

Oh and lets not forget the HUNDREDS of pdfs I have bought from DMs Guild over the years. I have years and years of ready made 5E content. Not to only figure out how to not hate the system when the players hit around level 7. I love running the game during levels 1-5. It starts to wear on me...

I have been stuck with this dilemma for a couple years now. At its core I am not a huge fan of 5E. I think everything is over the top. I just prefer a slower paced game with much less abilities. Fast healing, fast xp, big damage just seems like a video game to me. The problem is that as a...

That is one thing I never understood. I know that strict tracking of all resources (food, water, ammo, spell components, encumbrance, etc) can really turn people off these days but to completely eliminate ALL resources just seems like lazy design imo. There are times where limited resources...

That's probably even a better idea.

I really hate the low light visions and abundance of light cantrips in this game. My last campaign had a Bard, Sorcerer, and a Cleric which meant there were 3 light cantrips going at all times. One solution to that problem I am using with my next campaign is to make light cantrips into a...

I will definitely check it out. Thanks.

This is the type of info I was looking for. We have played Dragon Heist and they loved it. They got bored by the 3rd level of DotMM and we decided in the future we will do Undermountain in small bits. SKT and PotA I was unsure of. After my first glance at SKT I thought it might be better to use...