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You could make it more interesting by doing damage 6d6, plus chance to pin PCs under it. Since the telekinesis pretty much directs it to where it is going, have the PCs make Dex saves to try to avoid it. If they fail, they can be pinned (restrained) until they wriggle out with an additional...

I've got to include these old buggers: Tolkein (and Terry Brooks - Sword of Shannara so derivative of Tolkein's work) Moorcock Fritz Leiber (Gray Mouser!!) Lovecraft Andre Norton (Quag's Keep) Joel Rosenberg (Guardian of the Flame Series really kept me interested as a teen) I would even add...

Hi Mort, I just picked frostbite so that I had a different means of attack and I just liked the flavor of it at first. It's something I can do even when engaged without suffering disadvantage and if it hits it grants disadvantage on the creature's next attack. I just like playing with...

Update...in the Phandalin campaign I'm in now, I'm a 4th level Bladesinger. I can get up into melee, but I don't like staying up their for too long. I've just taken mobility so I can dance around a lot, especially when I have bladesong up, and I can pop a shield spell sometimes when I want to...

Session 20 – Retreat, but blocked by a storm We knew that our Rope Trick would end soon, but we also feared that Nezzer, The Black Spider and her minions would be waiting for us in force. I was pretty sure that none of the bugbear or Nezzer saw us actually go into the Rope Trick, but I was not...

I made an adventure where the PCs had to infiltrate a tomb where archeologists were over run by goblins and a bugbear. In the main hall, accessible by a ladder from the surface, there were scaffolds 20' high up on the north, south and west wall (and a passage leading under the west wall...

I wish I would use "The Rule of Cool" more often...as player and DM. Seriously, I like encouraging players to try cool stuff. I also echo the inspiration sentiment. No matter how I try, I often forget to award inspiration. I think I'm going to allow players to grant inspiration to the PC...

Yes. 10 minutes is fine. Last night in our Phandelver campaign we came upon a marble double door with strange lettering. My Bladesinger started to read the comprehend languages ritual. Before she could finish two other party members were surprised by wandering stirge. My Bladesinger stopped...

Session 19 – Straight into the Heart of Darkness Although Yut was injured from the last fight, we decided not to take a rest. Brigby applied his divine healing to our monk and the monk still had some additional vitality from his last kill. After making sure that the west door was indeed...

Session 18 – To the Wave Echo Cave Back in Phandalin, Gundrun kept pushing us to get a move on it to the Wave Echo Cave to clear it of the evil that has overrun it. He was concerned about his brothers, Nundro and Thardin, but I think he was more concerned about the mine itself. He offered us...

Congrats. I've still not completed an entire adventure path for 5e. I'm still running Princes of the Apocalypse (although I've been taking a break for quite a while to play in other games instead). I love the scope of these adventure paths, but I think I'm much more of a mini-campaign...

Ancalagon It looks like Xanathar's Guide will have a War Wizard. From what Jeremy Crawford says, it will have a mix of evoker and abjuration spells, some kind of innate magical shielding, and be beefier than a standard wizard so that it can stay in the battle and survive. I wonder how this...

Here's another one worth thinking about, I think. Say that the Phantasmal Force is of a giant frog (or frog like creature that can swallow a creature)...it faces the victim and swallows it. The victim fails the initial Int Save so it thinks that it is inside the frog creature...perhaps taking...

Here's my question for DMs... If a player does use Phantasmal Force to create a ring of burning flames around the target, how does the DM decide what action the target takes based on the perceived situation? Is it just a judgment call or do the DMs out there make some kind of check? Scenario...

Don't forget...if BS gets hit while concentrating on Blur, make con check or lose concentration.

Session 17 – Rescuing Gundrun Rockseeker and Running from Targor’s Warband We made our way back into Cragmaw Castle and everything seemed pretty quiet. We let Yut lead us since he was the one that saw the owl bear. He weaved his way to the tower where the owl bear had probably nested and he...

Session 16 – Cragmaw Castle – Goblins, Hobgoblins and Owl Bear After the Rope Trick ended, we dropped down to find that many of the goblin bodies that littered the ruined dinning hall had been dragged away. Slightly concerned, we kept exploring to the north. As we opened another door into a...

Session 13, 14 and 15 – Lenora meets new Adventurers I was able to catch a ride with a farmer who was taking some of his goods to the outskirts of Waterdeep. Then I made my 3 day journey to Phandalin. Exhausted, dejected and alone, I checked back at the Stonehill Inn. Toblin and Myrna, the...

In my main campaign, strangely, almost none: 1) I just let players spend inspiration after the fact to get another try at the d20 roll they don't have to declare it before they make their roll. Players hate when they roll with advantage and both die rolls are good. They feel like they wasted...

If they made fighters and rogues any better nobody would be playing the other classes! lol