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Nah, I use gold like normal but account for regional inflation once characters start spending big. Once, I even had a town become abandoned after the adventurers started tipping people 50gp and purchased hundreds of GP worth of goods/etc.. Those amounts often equal decades worth of income for...

Seemed useful to me. When I check those notices, I'm going to click onto the link anyway to respond in most cases, so there's basically no reason to have the entire thing in a preview.

The end of that description also mentions they aren't allowed to enter the throne room. That tells me the other giants would rather not have hill giants interrupting their little opera and politics thing, so decided to assign the hill giant envoy to simple guard duty. You'll also notice that...

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Stop thinking points of damage equal physical wounds, and it makes more sense. Sharpshooter just means you're capable of putting more offensive pressure on your opponent by targeting more difficult-to-hit areas. It's pointless trying to narrate that extra 10 points of damage (and extra 5...

Bad game design.

To be fair, the concept of ToD was pretty good. The execution just sucked.

I tend to equate old-school D&D as the precursor to modern board games more than modern RPGs.

Still no PDF release... that's literally all they need to do.

I think adamantine armor was simply a special case, perhaps for legacy reasons. 5e doesn't really have an alternative material system in place, which means adding something like adamantine in would mean also adding other materials like heartwood and stuff. With the "less is more" design of 5e...

Sounds like the players missed the whole point of tracking the treasure in the first place. It was never about retrieving it to be returned to the looted towns, but rather used to determine the full scope of what what's going on, including where it's being taken and why they need it. You...

5e expects about 6 or 7 fights per long rest, and it seems like the expected pace is a long rest per session. I personally feel like that's way too much outside of a dungeon crawl, so my games tend to aim for 3 fights and *maybe* an easy random encounter thrown in somewhere else. As for...

This forum needs thread caps.

It's normal for this site.

And yet you create a hidden poll to do so... You place it somewhere and the DM determines the DC to find it. If it's a scenario where you want some kind of active challenge or the details are arbitrary -- perhaps a character wants to try and smuggle a weapon into the city by hiding it in a...

I buy the books, but I also have to pirate them for the PDF versions. As a DM, it really sucks having to cart around 3 to 6 hardcover books when I have a perfectly good tablet to use, simply because WotC has something against digital copies. Because of that, I have no problem if my players...

In terms of encounter balance, I've found it's a good idea to have enemy HP be max rather than average. This helps prevent a couple of good player initiatives from screwing up the action economy, which is the real problem. Outside of combat, you'll probably want to get into a good RP format...

How interesting of a character development choice is it really? I didn't mind so much back when it was split into several skills, but 5e Perception is really just an obvious pick for everyone in my experience. Does this bother anyone else?

I guess I'm not seeing the actual problem with Con. I've had plenty of characters do just fine with a 10 or 11, and had a player run with 8 once.

I chalk it up to people just not really having a clue how the stuff works. For a lot of these guys, a "game engine" is a magical entity to which anything they don't understand gets attributed. The most recent example I've seen is with the Mass Effect games, and how Turians have a more...