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I almost always roll for damage, but make an exception when there are a huge number of creatures to track. In those cases, it's much easier to just multiply the number of hits by average damage. I also tend to use average damage for things like dragon breath, as rolling so many dice slows...

As pukunui points out, most of the 5E adventures can pick up where the starter set leaves off with minimal effort. So the more important question is which (if any) would you enjoy running and your players enjoy going through? Each has a rather different feel and certain problems. I'd suggest...

And if such acts do occur - everyone has an off night - then make sure there are consequences. When running PotA, we had a character cut down a number of innocents. The entire group was shocked, as the player has never shown any desire to play his character in such a way. Yet, for whatever...

Agree 100%. However, writing "evil" on the character sheet does pretty much guarantee that evil acts will be committed. I've yet to see a player want to play an evil character who then never did anything evil. So at a bare minimum, groups that don't want characters committing evil acts should...

Here, here. I don't allow evil alignments in my games, and won't play in games that allow them. I play games to escape reality and have fun, not focus on the bad stuff human beings do, certainly not be a party to such actions. If others want to play RPGs exploring such characters, that's fine...

Not entirely sure what you are asking here. Feather fall only affects falling speed. Feather fall has no effect on damage taken from attacks or spells. So... 1) Aarakocra is hit by an attack that would cause him to stop flying, but is still conscious. The aarakocra could use feather fall to...

You're right. That's what I get for doing math in my head at my age. :)

I realize the scenario appears to be playing out differently (just one or two PCs involved), but thought you would find my account helpful. A few months back, a party of 5 PCs, levels 7-8) were exploring. The rogue went ahead and was surprised by two invisible barlguras. They hit four times out...

Even if you leave the weapon where it fell, you take away the opponent's option to take opportunity attacks. This could be important if you want to give another character (say, a wizard caught in melee) the option of withdrawing from combat without taking the Disengage action.

While running PotA for my group, the party wizard loved to use this spell. In most cases, it worked fine. A couple times they did have problems - in one, the cultists used your idea to block line of sight, then set up ambushes and traps for when the party emerged. I also pointed out that the...

Another possible pitfall is that the party may simply decide to leave. Long before the end of the module, they will be able to escape the Underdark. Depending on the characters' motivations, they might simply decide not to return! We had this very discussion in my group, with two PCs arguing...

I think we'll just have to agree to disagree on whether or not this is a failing in the module. We (I :blush:) have beaten this issue enough. Back to the OP's original concerns, keep in mind that the module doesn't suddenly get easier after the initial escape. Our party was wandering around...

I think you're missing my point. Our actions were perfectly reasonable, given what we knew. Yet, we didn't succeed. So my wizard was seriously gimped the rest of the way. My point is that leaving something so important to chance is not good module design. It's similar to designing a module...

We tried, but the drow drove us off. We came back after a rest, and were again driven back. The GM later told us that we would need to be around 5th level to have a reasonable chance of success to defeat the drow guarding the prison. We instead went a different direction and ended up in one of...

This cannot be emphasized too much. Our GM ran this campaign and we knew about being captured at the beginning. I ran a wizard, beginning at 1st level. I retired the character at 5th level because I still did not have a spellbook, and I didn't have enough gold to make a new one from scratch. No...

Hmm, I'm going to go against the grain here and suggest that multiclassing is fine. I've yet to see a multiclass character at my table that is clearly superior to a single-class character, and usually they are worse than the single class. They gain some flexibility, but lose a lot in power. I've...

Another option to add to your list: lower the casting time BTW, one possibility with such a system is that every spell could begin as a 1st level spell. Example: teleport. 1st level allows caster to teleport a certain distance, say 30'. Cast at 2nd level and the distance changes, or he can...

I'd love to see this as a fully fleshed-out alternate system, but I would not want it in the core system. My reasoning? Analysis paralysis. I already have players who take forever to decide which spell to cast on their turn. Having them also decide on which options to add to a spell would just...

Yep, one player in my group has learned that upcasting counterspell is very useful, as he's blown a couple ability checks against higher level spells. It's only fair to put the evil mage in the same position... Upcasting bless can be very useful, so one can give the bonus to everyone in the...

Yep, it's definitely creative and not unbalanced. In fact, given that the dragon might not even include the druid in the area of effect, the druid might end up wasting his action completely. So as a one-off tactic, it doesn't cause any balance or rule problems. If one expands this tactic to...