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This also gives you an option to run a solo adventure with the player that had to miss a session, even if its a quick one off via email, chat, or text. Give them a reason to miss the session narratively, but help keep XP totals close.

I don't allow "called shots", but would definitely narrate a Nat 20 as a groin shot. Forgo the extra damage to apply the incapacitated or stunned condition.

Being stuck at home, I just talked to my boys (14 year old twins) about starting a new sandbox last night. Told them level 1. I do think later that "replacement" characters starting two levels beneath lowest current would be ok. I still may do level 1 each time, though. We'll see.

I ran this once. Great fun was had by all.

Found this intro for "new to D&D" players that I wrote up awhile ago. PDF in the link. What Character Do You Want to Play?

I read a bunch of different blogs and watch several YouTube channels. Probably easier to just link my Blog Roll. There are some Magic: The Gathering links in there as well, btw.

Read cover to cover, but that when it was first released. Read many sections since then, but there are probably vast swaths that I haven't looked at since my initial read. This thread, and others recently, have me thinking about picking it back up.

5e-card-a-day has been making D&D stat blocks of Magic Cards. Monsters, magic items, spells, ect...

Theros does away with binary genders for races. There are female satyrs and male nymphs. Greek themed settings are not in my wheelhouse, but I do like to mix D&D and MTG, so I will be getting this. I'm sure there are options I can pull into my game. I'm all for any of the Magic settings...

Heliod also has a touch of Pelor the Burning Hate vibe.

I do like some Magic flavor in my D&D. I'm pulling elements of Magic cards in my home brew world. My 19 year old daughter runs a game for her friends. She describes it as the Twilight Saga set in Innistrad. 5e-card-a-day creates D&D 5E stat blocks of Magic cards. It's a fun resource.

I like herbs in my game as well. Here are a couple resources that I've used. http://zerohitpoints.com/Middle-Earth-for-DnD-5/Herbalism http://farlandworld.com/flora.html https://jonbupp.wordpress.com/2016/03/04/herbalism-items/ https://theangrygm.com/crafting-herbcraft-part-2/

I've used a swarm of orcs, but just used hill giant stats. Multiattack allows you to swarm two characters, and the higher bonus to hit makes the attacks more likely to land. Instead of describing it as a single hit, just describe it as multiple attacks getting in.

This item can be a base of what you are looking for. Not as powerful as you want, but it can be built upon. https://5ecardaday.tumblr.com/search/navigator's%20compass

Found an idea reading an old Dragon Magazine (issue #111!), about magic focusing items. A variant for charged magic items. Here's my conversion to 5e. I write about it in depth here: Magic Focusing: Variant for Charged Magic Items

Fire giant stats also work nicely for a "swarm of orcs".

I play a milestone system, but I give the players XP. I've found that players like tracking XP. Watching the total grow, knowing, "after the next session, I'll level up". I hate keeping track or calculating the XP earned. At the end of the session, I just give an amount of XP that seems...