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One of the things I like to do with skills is differentiate between what a trained character can do vs. an untrained. For example, anyone can attempt an Arcana check, but if the character isn't trained, there's some information he simply won't get, no matter the roll. This helps avoid the...

Seriously? You're getting snarky because I pointed out that you only told half the story? Sounds like a huckster who says "My product will make you a million dollars. Oh, did I forget to mention that it costs you two million?" If you want your posts to be taken seriously, you need to make an...

The middle two items you list are almost always concentration, which severely limits the druid's options in combat. More than once I cast entangle, spike growth, or a conjure spell, then each round said, "Well, I guess I'll try to hit someone with my shillelagh." I found that very boring...

Um, can you show your math here, because I just can't see it. 4th level sorcerer has 4 sorcery points. It costs 2 points to add a 1st level slot, 3 points to add a 2nd level slot. No way a 3rd/4th level sorcerer can add 2 extra 2nd level spell slots per day, at least not without sacrificing...

I'm in agreement with the others - talk to the GM, in a non-confrontational manner to get a better handle on his concerns and what your options are. One thing I've been doing for some time now (whether as GM or player) is say, "I'm not sure if this is balanced. How about we try it out and if...

My two cents: If you're just tacking on one or two abilities, a sidebar is fine. For example, for a goblin rogue, you could just add a section about sneak attack damage and taking bonus actions to Hide, Dash, or Disengage. However, pyrohydra has a lot more changes. "It has maximum hit points...

Well, by design, the game does put the spotlight on the PCs. So sometimes players forget to treat NPCs as anything more than props. That's when the GM needs to remind them, which I did. It definitely took the players completely by surprise, and they haven't repeated that particular mistake...

I was running a different adventure from Primeval Thule, and had almost exactly the same situation. I modeled the chief along the lines of Shaka Zulu - violent, assertive, sensitive to slights, but also very shrewd and cunning. The PCs literally mocked the tribe and chief while talking to him...

"Will your campaign be purely adventuring?" Depends on the players. I have four players. - One is really excited about building a stronghold similar to the Continental from the John Wick movies. She's also mayor of Phandalin. - One is motivated mostly to add as many spells as possible to his...

This sounds so much like many of the Greek myths, where attempting to avoid one's fate becomes the cause of one's fate. Imagine the lich casts divination as you say and the spell points to a particular party. The party has no idea the lich even exists, much less is going to interfere with its...

This is exactly what I did and it works fine. All characters have the same point buy (29 points), so no one starts at a significant advantage or disadvantage. Still, my players would rather roll, always remembering the character that rolled two 18's, never remembering the ones that rolled...

It's an old idea (most are), but how about a small colony that is suffering from some sort of plague and they don't know how to fix it? Could be anything - something environmental, "mad cow" disease, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, or some such. Other illithids will have nothing to do with them, for...

Gilderoy Lockhart from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

(Failed my Perception roll...) :erm: Well, maybe our responses will help the next person to run the module.

The PCs in my group finished PotA at 10th-12th level. I'm now adapting (very loosely) the old G1-G3 giant modules, mixing in some Dungeon adventures for variety.

I'm not sure anyone in this thread has said you cannot do those things. Based on comments I've heard over the years, however, I suspect that most folks don't equate megadungeon with the Social Interaction pillar of RPGs. So the question is, why not? Is it because too many megadungeons have...

Note: nothing that follows is terribly profound. I just think we need to figure out what we mean by the term megadungeon before we can discuss why we like/dislike them. What's a megadungeon? This is the question I've been asking myself since this thread started, since the term "megadungeon"...

Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any such collection. If you're willing to put in the work, most of the art can be found via Google image searches. For example, type in 5E Hobgoblin and the first pic returned is the one from the 5E Monster Manual. I use Google to pull most of the...

Excluding the second (clear victory conditions), this seems to describe a campaign world. So my question is: When we speak of "megadungeons", how are they different from the campaign world? Put another way, isn't a campaign world simply a "megadungeon"?

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