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Broken usually isn't about numbers, but whether it works or not. By the time a fighter can do that, an opponent can drink a Potion of Fly. Then create some fog or turn invisible when the fighter pulls out a bow.

Take a look at this post about mounts: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?729186-B-AD-amp-D-2-ED-Did-Gary-Gygax-quot-Hate-quot-spears-why&p=18029974#post18029974 Dealing with rep can easily be divisive. If you have two charismatic PCs and two who aren't, the uncharismatic ones either don't...

Pathfinder isn't really less balanced than 3e. Arguably better, since there's less material to squish together. However, Pathfinder didn't fix most of 3e's problems either, and introduced a few new ones. Save DC shenanigans. We have a DM who used to run a lot of Pathfinder, though he now runs...

I have literally never had a drunk PC before. Not once. And I've never seen a drunk PC, unless a player specifically wanted their PC to be drunk. So while it's a hard and not particularly balanced encounter, it's probably not going to be all that bad. PCs don't have to be hard drinkers to...

Fortunately he has Plot Armor. I'm not expecting even extremely cautious 3rd-level heroes to survive such an adventure. They have a DM who can at least act reactively, and maybe proactively, instead of letting the script save them.

The Magic Map ritual, 9th-level, is probably what you need. It lets you follow someone ... on a map! It's better than a "this way!" hand too. Of course this means you need a map of the area you think the warforged is in.

This is just my opinion, but the idea that 1st-level characters are horribly fragile should vanish. High-level characters select or are forced to confront more dangerous situations. Maybe if 1st-level PCs are attacking Tucker's Cave or the Evil Overlord's Castle they shouldn't last long, but I...

Don't confuse class with job or culture. Class is about how you fight, nothing more. Even if most orc warriors are barbarians, they still have craftsmen, farmers, and other jobs. (Unlike gnolls, who are so lazy they have slaves for everything.) Orcs love war... and steel makes better weapons...

I think orcs could make steel. Many "barbarian" cultures could make steel. When the Celts and Germans invaded Rome, and when Rome invaded them, both sides fought with steel. When the Huns and Mongols invaded Eastern Europe, they were shooting steel-tipped arrows at their enemies. I don't know if...

You don't necessarily have to use Stealth, not if whoever is inside the door is expecting someone to be there. If people walk by there all the time, they won't realize something is wrong until you've literally kicked in the door. There are rules for non-Stealth surprise in most versions of D&D...

That's a failed session 0. I am personally not a big fan of player-driven because PC goals not only conflict with the "plot" but with each other. If the PCs all have one long-term goal then it's easy to incorporate their goal with the plot, but when you have five players with five different...

It does sound like too much. That may be a flaw in the adventure. An "evil" army realistically consists of several people armed with deadly weapons such as rifles and grenades, following the orders of officers you might not like or respect and are responsible for keeping you alive (and...

"Ranger" is a job, not a class. The spear hunter who can sneak up on animals and later serve them for dinner is a ranger. The military scout is a ranger (or rogue). The bandit archer is a ranger. One class cannot mechanically represent all those archetypes. "Ranger" should be a background or...

When 3e was previewed, it drew some bile from those who didn't like it, even after it came out. When 4e was previewed (repeat). When 5e was previewed (repeat).

For some reason opportunity attacks only seem to go off when provoked by movement, nothing else. That's a little backwards. You'll end up with PCs (and maybe even NPCs) so afraid of opportunity attacks they won't move once they've engaged in combat, and that means you can fire a crossbow bolt...

Some of the proposed strategies aren't likely to work. Shield walls worked in older, larger D&D groups (the kind with numerous henchmen and with enough PCs to supposedly need a caller) but not in more typical groups of 4-6 players with only one or two fighters. Even if you had an all-fighter...

Demons have Variable Resistance, and are elemental. Devils are immortals. (In effect, devils seem more like fallen angels.) But the things that tie demons or devils together aren't large, and there's little advise on diverging their behavior. In 3e, the biggest differences between demons and...

You're using black-on-black text, so people have to highlight the text to read it. In any event, the part about "only one line" isn't always true. Back in 2e, elves had a "shot on the run" ability that was written in the text and not in a stat block, as an example. Needs a bit more info. What...

Earlier on, monsters that could work well together had higher Charisma scores. Kobolds and hobgoblins, but not orcs, for instance. I'm sad to see that taken away.

Something to research. I'll stat with Google.