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Mike Merals released an Unearthed Arcana on downtime to help address this concern. In the announcements of Tomb of Annihilation it sounds like they put those downtime rules in the book. Others in this thread list some great ideas. I would add that I've allowed magic items to be purchased. I...

Check how the pillows interact with the perfumed veils. Since the pillows causes a creature to become blind and not able to breath, I don't think the character affected by the pillow would also be affected by the perfume. I'm not sure if this is your intent. For the saves against the...

Agreed. I thought of that same idea when asking the question. In my mind I see character that is sleeping on the pillow not having any breath to hold and thus the OP statement to apply easily. However, I'm assuming the pillow is flying from the bed at the PCs face. It would seem reasonable...

Why would a character attacked by the pillow loose all held breath? As a player I would find this rule to be unrealistic and unfair. As a DM I find it hard to make suffocation a threat in game play. I made house rule to help with that. In the case of the pillow I wonder how the pillow harms...

What occurred to me while reading the responses is that there is opportunity for the players to "win" regardless of the outcome of their characters. Let's say the characters actually defeat that encounter. Then the players feel very confident and they have proven that they are more powerful...

I've been watching Chris Perkins on Dice, Camera, Action for about two episodes. He seems to have a vast knowledge of the Forgotten Realms and a skill for taking a player idea that wouldn't normally work and working with it to incorporate it with the history of the world he has the game in...

I had a player playing a weretiger. I allowed the strength stat bump and limited the damage immunity to resistance until level 10. The character never progressed passed level 7 though. It was played from level 3 to level 7. The character was a rogue assassin class. The player did say that...

Since I started running AL games with the PotA story I've found XP difficult to hand out. The PCs are kind of over their heads looking at higher level creatures that most likely can defeat them. Because of this, they spend more time in parlay than combat. I've started to think about the NPC...

I have Inspiration tied to critical fails. I have a 3d8 critical fail table with the three values near the average listed as "Nothing happens." When a player rolls a 1 on the attack roll, they can choose to roll on the critical fail table and receive an inspiration chip and pass one along to...

The way I would run the situation you presented would be as follows: 1. The DM describes the situation with specific verbge of "You have your bow drawn taught ready to shoot the enemy as it rounds the corner. As the enemy rounds the corner you release your arrow. Roll for initiative." 2. The...

I would caution you in using the barrel indefinitely. If your DM is on board with the concept then you would have little risk of loosing the barrel. However, per DMg p 246 - 247 the barrel would have an AC of 15 and between 4 and 18 HP assuming it's a wood (AC 15) barrel and the condition is...

I would recommend keeping it positive. I also hand out inspiration on a roll of 1 to hit, but I use it as a risk vs reward system. If the player wants the inspiration then they accept a roll on the critical fail table. The active player gets one for themselves and gets to hand one to a fellow...

I want to make sure the story with Isis ties back into SKT. Given she is concerned with home and hearth then the hill giant raids on the farms in the north will affect this aspect. In addition, Isis is linked to storms, but I feel she is not as strongly linked as the other deities of storm...

I'm with crowd that keeps it simple for something like this. I would leave it to the player to ensure they can role-play if their character is aware of the terrain. If you feel the player is role-playing In a way that is breaking your dis-belief, then ask the player about why they feel their...

@ Demetrios1453, thank you for bringing the Mulhorandi to my attention. Although the 4th ed FR campaign guide indicates the diets left I can adjust that as needed to make a good story. I'm going to shift my plans to use Geb in place of Goibhniu or Gond. Geb will have stayed in FR with a few...

I'm working on a plot for the level 15 - 20 game that will approach in about 1 year. I plan to run a portion of Storm Kings Thunder as the main story, but I would like to include a secondary plot that intersects with the SKT plot and helps develop the PCs. One of the PCs has a strong...

My players really enjoyed Red Hand of Doom. I'm not sure you can fit the entire story into your 24 hour time limit; however, you might be able to take the concept and adapt it to your game and time limit. The thing that the players enjoyed the most was the feeling of accomplishment as they...

I like some of the systems I've seen in this thread. In my game I use a simple set of equations with a save. The goal was not to simulate reality, but to allow a low level character to have some risk from falling a short distance (10-20 ft.) but know that falling too far is deadly. This...

The video is on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6MLI30n7Ak Enjoy.

Matt Coville has an interesting commentary on the DMs control of time. In the scene you gave initially there is a question about the guards noticing the barbarian reaching for it's weapon. With the control of time, the DM may say something like "As you reach for your weapon the guards ready...