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I quite like the idea of once or twice having the players lose a lot of their camping equipment (tent, raincatcher, bedrolls etc) in a heavy, brutal flood. Just to put them in a precarious situation and force them to gather new supplies. That's why I want at least some kind of system for...

Hi, I've finished my first session of ToA and I'm preparing Port Nyanzaru and the rest of Chult now. Since there's such a great focus on navigation, foraging, water consumption and general preparedness, I'd really like to introduce a more sophisticated inventory system instead of just...

That's interesting. I'd probably keep Speed = 0 as the fifth option just before death (especially in ToA where travel is so important), but I do like this idea. Might slow down the game a bit if they get to choose though, and in ToA there's a lot of Exhaustion. I actually have my first ToA...

Yeah, have the GM roll tons of dice and keep track of even more stuff just so you get the chance to fireball a lot of enemies. Lazy players...

I want to punch all your players in the face.

Ultimate cringe

This is always difficult I find. If I focus fire a downed target while other PCs are alive and fighting, I might seem like a rude DM who just wants to murder. Typically I have monsters change targets once a character is down (unless he's isolated), but it does mean that PCs have an easy time...

Hi! I recently set out to organize a weekly D&D campaign and the group assembled much quicker than I anticipated. I'm prepping Tomb of Annihilation, and would love some feedback. I'll be using the Celler of Death from DMsguild as the intro adventure, but beyond that I'm just looking for...

Variant Gibbering Mouther: stuns and disorients you with relentless tales of her cats, uninteresting weekend plans and failed diets. While in close proximity to the Variant Gibbering Mouther, your Intelligence drops by 1d8+1 and your movement speed is reduced to 0. Weaknesses include (free)...

Don't you see how stupid this sounds? The whole reason some people attacked the other new employee was because of a perceived lack of experience. This person doesn't lack experience and is therefore not subject to the same attacks.

You haven't really moved up the literary ladder, haha! B-)

I always wonder why players are happy to spend months, literally months, in terrible games instead of just DM'ing themselves. People are so lazy. I can't believe all his faults were so obvious to you, but you never considered taking over and running a good game.

Hi, DM's, what brought about your first total party kill? Players, what lead to your first TPK? I am asking because I DM'ed a one-shot this Saturday and I had my first TPK. I've only DM'ed for about a year, and I have killed one character in a one-shot and had several unconscious ones in my...

Sounds underwhelming to me. Permanently losing hit points really stresses the sense of urgency and danger both on a story and mechanics level. Hit dice are mechanically important and work well, but narratively really boring.

From when you enter initiative order, until you leave it again, I'd say.

Encounters per day. See how many RP/exploration/combat encounters there actually are per average day.

I don't understand why this thread is in this forum

Seconded. D&D is just a slow game; I most often can't be bothered to play unless the session is at least 4 hours. Running a dungeon is a great idea. There's lots of dungeons out there of any size, and they don't have to be combat-only. "Tales from the Yawning Portal" might be a cool place to...

Can you elaborate please? The method I currently use is: I write numbers 20 to 1 on an A4 paper, and then have players announce their number, which I then write down. I add the monsters (same monsters are on same initiative). This takes a few moments, but once all the numbers are marked down...

I use average from the MM. I actually hadn't realized some people roll! I'm still fairly new to DM'ing. I can see the advantages; I've had fights where PCs fought a large'ish group of monsters, and they eventually figure out how much damage they have to deal. I don't like when players learn that...