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I love great art, so it's pretty important to me. That said, I don't think you need color artwork at all. Some of my favorite pieces are pencil sketches. Scan through Richard Whitters Twitter feed and find some of his sketches: they're wonderful. https://twitter.com/WhittersRichard

I think adventures should be challenging to promote a sense of, well, adventure. This can be done in many different ways. A tough encounter is an obvious one, but I'd encourage you to run a wide spectrum of difficulties as it keeps the players guessing. Besides, even "easy" encounters drain...

Happy about the Call Lightning changes.

I'd play this character as somebody who believes that they are an alien from another star system and their visit here is like some kind of field trip.

Purple worms need to eat too! What do you have against purple worms? Poor guys.

This is great. Thanks for offering this up to the community, Tim!

Consider also the number of times you might be attacked (that's a lot of zombies). So, let's assume that I (only) mitigate 15% damage from the horde of zombies that's cornered me here with the original example. That's still pretty attractive. What if I have a high AC and am already severely...

Sinister. I approve!

I'd certainly allow the use of abilities (including spells) to flee. In fact, I think that's fantastic. I turn the lich! Poof! He teleports.

I'm a mastermind criminal and I know the city has access to all kinds of divination magic. Perrrrfect. Excuse me while I pause to steeple my fingers. Ahhhh... The pitfall of spells like detect thoughts and zone of truth is that the casters of such spells have a proclivity to take the...

A couple of other common Dodge uses at our table include Patient Defense (aka Monk tanking) and combining with Spirit Guardians (cast and then subsequently dodge while moving forward to just let the spell melt everything).

The mantra at our table is, "When in doubt, dodge." Basically, if you don't know what to do with your action or none of the obvious choices seem attractive, dodge instead.

5e is high magic for sure. From a quick review of just the Player's Handbook... 40 subclasses Only 4 non-magic using subclasses (spells or otherwise) available: frenzied berserker, champion, battle master, and assassin The other 36 subclasses have either spells, a magical ability. or access to...

Unless necessary, they are without stats. I focus on agendas (both public and private).

Torture is absolutely evil. Any argument counter to this is sophistry.

There's no right way to do these things, but one reason we've never expanded past one-shot or wounded for our minion rules use ease of tracking. We just toss a little red plastic bead on the map next to the wounded monsters, effectively removing the bookkeeping.

We use a pseudo-minion rule, which is basically if you don't one shot the monster it dies the next time it takes damage. No hard and fast rule as to what kind of monsters are minions, but generally orcs and other "support" type monsters once the characters are of sufficiently high level.

If the players don't care about money, it's because they have too much of it. They either have too much of it because the DM has been too generous or because there's nothing they need to spend it on (or somewhere in between).

I'm playing a 12th-level evoker, which is a ton of fun, but I pretty much just ignore this ability.

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