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Yes...this is very important. I also like to create and keep on hand 2-4 interesting encounters that I can drop in at nearly any time to force the players to action in case the players stall or lose motivation or in case I go blank. I also listen really carefully to what my players say and I...

I love it. Makes me pine for the old days. lol. Cheers.

Session 17 – Searching Rivergard Keep and the Dark Stream It was nearly midnight, and the party was exhausted, but before they could rest, they searched the upstairs area in the main house of the keep. Hundar smashed in both a north and south door to reveal a library and a bunk room. Pate and...

I'm late to this thread, but here's my take. There were a lot of passionate people in both the general and the alpha test groups who played, studied, and commented upon the material WoTC gave us. It was a terrific experience that re-energized me and got me much more involved in the WoTC...

I develop most of my encounters without using xp budget and base them almost entirely on what makes sense for the location/stories. Sometimes after the fact, I check them and I find that I create a mix from easy to double deadly which is what I'd suggest. I think variety is the best...

Session 16 – Fighting inside Rivergard Keep, Encountering Grimjaw The party was mid battle inside Rivergard Keep. The sounds of battle, and Hundar’s war cry, seemed to alert more of the cultists inside a building to the north. Before they entered the courtyard, the group gathered and Pate was...

Yup. I'm pretty sure this is what WotC thinks. Like others have said, it is easy to put in sexuality if that's what a group wants even if the baseline is more or less neutral. There is not need to stir the pot with the published material when individual groups can stir the pot and flavor as...

We use all of them depending on the campaign. In some campaigns we used point buy (27) or standard array - to keep it fair and to allow players to create their own PC and bring them to the table. In another (one that I knew would only have 2 or 3 players at any one time) I even upped the point...

In my most recent campaign, pcs are at 5th level now. We have 2 rogues (one thief and one assassin), we have a bard, we have a sorcerer (who is only 4th level), we have a champion fighter. Observations: 1) All of the pcs can do things in and out of combat, and it mostly depends on what...

"Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush* Out on the wiley, windy moors We'd roll and fall in green You had a temper like my jealousy Too hot, too greedy How could you leave me When I needed to possess you? I hated you, I loved you, too Bad dreams in the night They told me I was going to lose the...

Yes! Piano and table legs that are smooth, slightly curved and tapered as they get closer to the ground, like a naked leg. I've read stories of how even the design of such furniture in the Victorian period was suggestive enough so that people used longer table cloths and skirts to hide the...

Session 15 – Travel Upriver, Getting Into Rivergard Keep and A Noisy Battle. The party spent the night at Bethard’s farm near Goldenfields. When they woke up, they had breakfast and decided to head up river to see if they could find traces of the Crushing Wave cultists who had just attacked...

Giving an npc 2 levels of fighter (for second wind and action surge) is fun. And some npcs get spells as if they were leveled as a caster. Those are the most common mods in my games.

I'm a huge fan of bounded accuracy and keeping ac in a 10 to 24 ish range is great for that. Think about this, if an ancient red dragon had a higher ac (say 28-30) what would prevent it from attacking towns, villages and even cities? Bounded accuracy makes it possible for even lower level...

Oh boy. I'm sorry I didn't read this thread sooner. In Bram Stoker's Dracula, the most erotic scene was when the three female vampire spawns set upon Jonathan Harker after he arrived at the castle. The descriptions of their "attack" were provacative, more sensual than destructive. I bet it...

And remember, so often, the downfall of those that know they are smarter or superior is that they actually become too arrogant or they underestimate their opponents. Sometimes it is a curse to believe oneself superior to others. In my PotA campaign, the 4th level party were able to take...

I like the ideas that include a drawback like Glassjaw mentioned. Here's another idea: if activated, use a d6 (like an escalation die in 13th age). The first round, the die is one "1" which adds 1 to damage. The 2nd round, it is "2", etc. At the end of that encounter, or after the die...

I get what you're saying. In a way, I don't like playing the ultra-intelligent villains because I feel like I know more than they would about the party, but they would know more about the world than I do (or it is too much of a pain to figure out what they would actually know about the party)...

I have been thinking about booting him, but nobody else really cares if he is there or not so I'll let it ride for now. The other people in the group make up for his lack of creativity and we kind of "get" it.

Here's an applicable anecdote from my last game session. We play online via fantasy grounds. During the game, one of my players left the game while the party was interacting with their prisoner, then the constable and some refugees from a devestated location a day's journey to the south. He...