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Have this sound effect cued on your tablet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FHw2aItRlw

Moving wall - the wall itself is 12" thick and has a false, thin veneer at it's bottom that conceals a 10" diameter stone roller which crumbles away when the wall begins to move. The wall is pushed forward by three powerful iron screws that are powered by poised counterweights and connecting...

Or maybe you play one game where both exist together? Isn't magic supposed to warp reality? By it's very nature, magic is not a mundane force on call like some subscription service, meekly circumscribing well-heeled limits. It's the stuff of creation, a dangerous force harnessed tenuously by...

I'm just getting into that with an 18th level Evoker. Your spell DC and to-hit goes up, which is nice, but you're encountering more things with high saves, counterspells and Legendary saves. Any caster worth their salt will have Warcaster and Resilience-Con by that point but concentration...

The whole concentration mechanic and save-every-round spells brings them down to earth in the lower levels. Restrictions - spell ID, etc - chops at them, too. Less intense. I was reading PirateCat's Defenders of Daybreak chronicles (3e-ish) a while ago and the magic meta on top of normal...

I've had too many experiences with cheap, lazy DMs to say that it's okay to skip reading the rules of the game. The majority of times I've run into these folks they were running linear games that suited their ideas of how the game should go, arbitrarily resolved encounters in they way they...

Unfortunately that ship has already sailed for D&D. Armor will always equal armor class which determines how hard it is to hit a target. It's been baked into the game for so long that any change from that model is practically impossible. Given the trend for simplified rules I don't see...

The 5e version just moves your soul and abilities at the time of death, so no power drawbacks. It's wise to include a spell book near the clone, however.

Or use a group check for the mob, essentially boiling it down to their passive score since the dice would even out around there.

With 'V' device (for Vampire AND Valor) if your PC actually defeated Strahd.

You can really see the influence computer games have had on RPGs in this thread. Terms like balance, fairness, etc were just scudding clouds on the horizon when I started playing D&D. I don't see the need to codify gold/magic/'power' in D&D to an absolute scale. It's like trying to make a...

I hear you and please don't take my endorsement of the Mists as pleasure. I was not pleased with S4, the hardcover was okay and the mods were among my least favorite. But I think it's important that we continue to honor it's restrictions for those who went through it. Apparently the mods...

I was just playing one of my Barovian PCs last weekend and we have frequent recollections of Barovia in my neck of the woods. There are still lots of CCC mods that lend a nod toward the Demiplane of Dread, too, as part of their story. Although I wasn't a fan of the rule when it was announced...

Like I said, some ideas work and others don't. I admire the AL team for stretching the game to keep things fresh and interesting. Sure people can sit out a season because they're annoyed. Or they can jump in and deal with the challenge. Dealing with the Death Curse has been a serious issue...

Or not. See XGtE. Or the DMG. Or the DM's Guild for all kinds of ideas. It's there. You may want more, but WotC doesn't owe you that.

We shouldn't say that being trapped in Barovia isn't a problem. It can be. But there are ways out and no one forces a PC to have to go there. As I've said, I think character portability is important in AL but I was also swayed by the Admins' assertion that one thing they want to do is shake...

Okay. Take it for what it's worth ... some guy posting something on the internet. In any case, the bounds of your inquiry don't allow for a reasonable answer. Or you could do what we used to do back in college - have a poker night using stakes from our PCs' treasure.

I'll admit that for certain implementations, like AL, ToA is an express train that really gives you practically no options to use wealth (not that there's a ton of wealth in the book, or a ton of options to use wealth in AL...). But if you're not bound to the narrative of ToA (and it's 77 day...

Not sure why you wouldn't have downtime. Downtime is a concept that is baked into 5e so it should be an option. If you're referring to the WotC hard cover adventures and their whirlwind of advancement, well, that's just a small part of the D&D experience. I recall a home game in 1st ed where...

Suggestions are just that, suggestions. Play your game.