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Ok, I went back and re-read everything with my new found understanding. What I was failing to do, was pay close attention to the wording in the rules. Re-reading, had me questioning prone and standing back up. Under combat, the rules state you fall unconsious. In the conditions section, the...

WOW! Combat is more deadly than I was actually playing it. Thanks for the clarifications all. I appreciate your help. :)

+1 to this. I am a new DM and all the players are new as well. We are running through LMoP and we are all loving it. Highly recommended!

Hello all, I think I may have been playing dropping to zero hit points, or less, incorrectly. What I have been doing is this: When a player drops to zero HP, they fall unconsious and have to make death saving throws at the start of their turn until they are stabalized by 3 saves or a...

PC in fighting is not cool IMO. Players get upset when the other players aren't on their side. There is a bit of this going on in the PF game I play. We have a player is who playing an evil character and he is fully staying in character, some of the other PCs are NOT happy, in game or in real...

I was not aware that the different D&D settings aren't all connected somehow. Still though, they could write a movie that doesn't tie in with any existing storyline, but could set the adventure inside an existing setting (Forgotten Realms, etc). Most of the general population wouldn't have read...

I think smiteworks has a good idea with the animated series. I feel that if there were to be a well made D&D movie (I would like to see live action ala LOTR), and if it were to be well received, then that would certainly open the floodgates for an animated series that could tell the further...

So far, I have simply started reading ahead a bit. I am pretty sure my players will want to recue Sildar, then head off to rescure Gundren Rockseeker. Of course, I cannot say this with 100% accuracy, but I am fairly certain that is what they will do. Having said that, I am going to plan for...

What I did to avoid this was have a player with darkvision look through the small hole at the top, then had all the players climb up to the top (I know this isn't realistic given that the rubble tapers at the top, but the players came up with a good way to climb, so I went with it), and they did...

Thank you. It feels good to have done it, and been successful at it, based on player feedback. To be honest, it was a lot more positive than I had expected it to be. Ultimately, I realized something that gets said a lot. Let the players have fun with it, even if it's not part of what you...

Actually they didn't. They just got into the bugbear's room. They fought the monsters in there, and collected the treasure. Next session, they plan to go back in, explore the rest of it, and save Sildar (who they realized has been taken there).

After the fact, I realize that I was probably over thinking everything. My main concern was trying to learn all of the rules AND trying to figure out how to run the thing. Luckily, the players were all engaged, so they made it easy to make up stuff here and there as we went along. They would...

Hello all, First, I want to give all of you a hearty and sincere "Thank You" for all of your support, help, tips, ideas, and encouragement. This past Sunday (01/11/15) was my first time ever playing 5E, I was the DM, and we had 4 players, who had also never played before. Two of the players...

Tnank you to all for the suggestions & advice. There's a lot of great/helpful stuff ITT. My worry is that they will find the bugbear, kill him off, and leave the cave without further exploration. That skips out on a lof of fun/exploration.

They did, along with Wal-Mart's web site. That is one thing that has always annoyed me about Amazon/online shopping in general. It's like being a commodities day trader!!!

We haven't actually played yet. I was trying to learn character creation from reading the rules and using the pre-gen characters as a guideline of sorts. Some specific things that threw me off were the way the numbers were written in for the attack roll and damage roll. I couldn't figure out...

Hello all, This Sunday will be my first day actually playing 5E (or any edition of D&D for that matter) and I will be taking on the role of DM. I have some questions about the adventure, as well as just want to ask for advice from all of you. 1. The book has the adventure broken down into...

A big +1 to all of this. As a new player, this is exactly what I am thinking. New players need to know how to do the math. Looking at the completed pre-gen character sheets is nice, but when you don't know how the numbers written on them were reached, it's a bit of a challenge to decipher all...

Very cool! I wish I had the skills & tools to do something like that. Impressive, to say the least.

That's really cool. :cool: I have read about those, but have never seen any of them (even in pics). From my understanding, they were cardboard, but covered to look like wood. Is that correct? :confused: