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. Players cannot call for an ability check. Ever. The DM determines when/if a roll is required. This. This drives me mad. Only one of my players does this. He's a dick in real life so it's expected. He'll just roll a dice and say "I rolled 18 on stealth". No you didn't. You didn't say you...

I'm new to d&d and DMing so I went with LMoP. So far it's been quite good, only downside is it gets a bit confusing for my players with the amount of side quests available from so many different NPC's in Phandalin, they didn't know which job to do, who to report to upon completion, lots of me...

One of my players rerolled into a monk because he kept being overshadowed by our rogue, now he's on par with him. They are definitely an underrated class Sent from my HTC 10 using EN World mobile app

I immediately addressed the concern of overshadowing the players, I don't approve of dmpc, but we all have to dmnpc at some point, and it would be more of that, he'd give a back story to the plot, but let them lead, he wouldn't contribute in ideas or planning, and only do basic combat. That...

So I've got the premise for my campaign but I just need some ideas or tips for actually writing it and structuring it. when I became DM, I had my character teleported to another land in a magical portal, now my players are going to Albeir-Tori, where they will bump into my old character who is...

I agree, I prefer the actual role playing, apart from Tiberius, he's a twat, so I'm glad he left. I'm not a fan of Vax either, and I have a Vax in my group, the overpowered elven rogue who wants to stealth everywhere and has ridiculous modifiers completely overshadowing all other players. He's...

My bad, I just watched the dm tips videos by mercer and he mentioned in that that he likes using an hourglass to promote urgency, clearly I misinterpreted that. I'm only on e15 so I assumed he used it in the future. My apologies. Sent from my HTC 10 using EN World mobile app

We did have a half hour break after 3 hours, it was an hour or two after the break they started losing interest. But you're right, they definitely have a limit, and now I know what it is. Sent from my HTC 10 using EN World mobile app

I'm surprised at the number of anti-time limit posts there have been. Matt Mercer uses an hour glass to bring a sense of urgency into combat and Vox Machina like it.

This is an awesome offer. I'm new to D&D, been playing for a year, and I recently became the DM. I imagine you're already inundated with requests but it would be amazing if you could do a portrait of each of my group's characters. Or even just one of them! Kolvar: 168 year old Wood Elf Rogue...

Oh sorry "show them the way out" I misread Sent from my HTC 10 using EN World mobile app

I think snatching their phones and throwing them might be a bit extreme Sent from my HTC 10 using EN World mobile app

The instance in which this occurred was somewhat an anomaly, we were doing a 6 hour session whereas we usually do 4, and it was 3 of the 5 players looking at their phones, two of them have remarkably short attention spans, and the third cares more about football. But the point you've raised did...

Love this. Might adapt it a bit for my group because I fear this would be too effective. I think every player would get advantage on every attack on every round, and tbh they're all way too overpowered as it is. So I might do the initiative tents and clothes peg, leaving it to them to see whose...

Mine aren't so bad, we're all close to thirty so not particularly young either. They're focused at the start but after about 4 hours they lose concentration and that's when the phones come out. It's funny you mentioned character sheets as that's a common occurrence, we meet for a session and...

My rogue wants to start crafting poisons to apply to his daggers. I read the info in the dmg, it says poisons aren't the kind of thing that can be easily purchased for obvious reasons, but it did say they can be crafted if the right ingredients are found. However, I couldn't find any list of...

In our last session, I got quite annoyed, because all of my players were on their phones during combat, ignoring what was happening, who was attacking whom, and more importantly; not planning their next move, and every time play passed to the next person, they spent 5 minutes going through the...

I don't have much experience with secret doors so feel free to disregard my comment, I just ran the redbrand ruffian hideout scenario from lmop for my group and in place of the secret doors, I replaced them with puzzle doors, inscribed with difficult riddles. That's just because I know my...

I made a wooden dm screen. I personally just use notes from the current session, so any treasure they have and the prices if they choose to sell it, monsters that will be encountered in the session, pc's main stats such as ac and mods, and rules for reoccurring conditions or spells Sent from my...

Our first session was 12 hours and I loved it. A month later we did 2 hours. Then our DM got bored and we went a whole year without playing. Finally started back up again and played for 4 hours, DM got bored and decided he wanted to play instead so I took over, now we do 4 hours fortnightly...