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Lol, only if he's extra angsty about it the whole time. Hard Agree. Once everyone's chosen their races and classes, I always like to go around the table and have all the players establish something that explicitly does not exist on this particular world. Only rule is that it can't be something...

I haven't actually run this campaign, but once I find some free time again, I'd like to try an all-monster campaign where the humans, dwarves, elves, half-elves, halflings, and gnomes are all explicitly the evil villains and banned as PCs. Those races formed an alliance and have invaded the...

As part of DMing a session zero, one thing I like to do is go around the table and have each of my players change something about the setting. It can be a big thing or a small thing, maybe something added to the lore or removed from it. I think this helps with player buy-in and makes each...

I also read something once that I can't place now, but it recast dwarf beards as essentially whiskers. Dwarves could rely on their whiskers in part to move around safely underground, and gained some kind of bonus to detecting things when they couldn't otherwise see.

When considering these drawbacks, keep in mind how annoying it would be if the party members overdo it. Taking your halfling example, if the halfling has to roll not to feel the urge to go home and hang out, what happens when a halfling player fails that roll and decides they're abandoning the...

I think the most useful way to talk about our hobby and how to improve it is with actual evidence. "Maybe X seemed like a good idea, but what happened when you actually tried it at the table?" "I thought Y would be awful, but this is what happened when we tried it." It's also super important to...

DM style aside, one reason railroading persists is because it is easier for module writers. Whether that's homebrew or published, it's much easier for a DM to prepare for a flowchart, where scene A leads to scene B leads to scene C. When players get off the rails and don't take on scene C like...

The mining company is going to be the main antagonist organization, but it's too big to take down in a single boss battle. If the players want to go that route, they certainly could focus the campaign on breaking the company, but they're gonna have their hands full with just the one dungeon...

Sorry, no. Country roads take me home to Tennessee or to Michigan, rather than to West Virginia. It just seemed like such an interesting combination of history and fantasy that I thought for sure someone else had beaten me to the punch.

I had what seems like a really cool idea. I was wondering if anyone has done something like this before? I want to do a megadungeon delve loosely based on the West Virginia Mine Wars. So it's a relatively standard underground megadungeon along the lines of Castle Greyhawk or Undermountain. The...

If I'm in a hurry, cereal and milk or granola and vanilla yogurt. If I'm not in a hurry, I'll make some oatmeal with honey, cinnamon, and orange zest. Or on special occasions, some homemade buttermilk biscuits with fried eggs and bacon.

I concede a lot of what you said here is fair. If your character concept relies specifically on being able to cast some particular spells, and then those spells get destroyed, you would probably not have a good time in this game. It's not for everybody, and that's okay. On the other hand, for...

I think the easiest way to do this is to just require that all levels be taken in a spellcaster class, or at least a spellcaster subclass. So you can multiclass into rogue if you want, but only if you take arcane trickster. All the players are going to have to buy in to the concept from the...

There's no question that this premise requires a very particular sort of play style, both from the players and the DM. The players have to be willing to be flexible and recognize that the spells they have are temporary assets. The DM, meanwhile, has to make sure that the players continue to have...

That's a good point. I should have made my assumptions clearer in my original post. In the morning when players are preparing spells, that's when they find out what spells are no longer viable options. This would not be something that they discover mid-combat. There might be a rare boss or...

I had an idea for what seems like a cool campaign, but I think I'd need to tweak the 5e rules a bit to make it work. The party would be all magic-users of some kind or another, and they've teamed up to find out why certain spells have stopped working. Turns out there's a BBEG who hates magic...

Someone else probably already pointed this out, but it seems a lot more likely to me that, rather than screening out non-d&d players, they wanted to be able to screen out the more intense d&d players. From a business perspective, if they're trying to grow the game, they need to know more about...

Is there guidance in the book on how to run a campaign that hops around between lots of Dread Domains? I saw something about how the Vistani can travel through the mists, but is that meant to be a big part of the overall setting, or just an excuse for DMs to switch from zombies to mummies when...

As originally pitched, the world is like this now because the gods of the sea were somehow imprisoned by mortals, but then they broke out and took their revenge. Instead of flooding the world with water and killing everyone, they turned the seawater into the thick, enchanted clouds that cover...

I don't know that the unique ideas in Stormfront are a direct precursor to Nentir Vale, but they share a common ancestor in the "points of light" concept. So from that perspective you're right on.