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It was really hard to take down characters in 4e and it‘s very challenging to kill a character in 5e. I def equate lethality with ‘older school’ but I also think of old school as having to do with how the math changed from pre-3e to post-3e mechanics.

Agree. In the wild there are too many predators that have the advantage in ‘their’ domain.

And next time have a room full of various chests and tables so that they don’t know which one to target. :cool:

Another idea might be to have the group be entirely focused around stealth and sneakiness. Always having to get the drop on their enemies, tactically think through surprise rounds and giving advantage as much as possible. Allow the (optional) flanking rule for a +2 to attack bonuses to help out...

In our group, we max all the dice, then we roll all the dice over again and add that to the first number. This applies to heroes only. The DM just rolls all the dice. It’s actually more dreadful for the players that way.

I played a tiefling sorcerer with the performer background and he was the lead singer of a band. The actual bard in our group was lead guitarist. Thaumaturgy and Prestidigitation were used to maximum effect along with dancing lights, minor illusion, etc. As a drummer, your sticks could...

My first reaction to Tasha’s and the latest Mordenkainen’s was that WotC is experimenting for the sake of the 2024 release of 6e. Taking that approach, I found it was easier to me to process the content.

We’re happy to have any backers with the project, but there’s something especially warm about local love. When I first moved to metro Atlanta in the late 90s there just wasn’t much in the way of DND love. Now there are stores and gamers everywhere.

I know that this isn’t Free RPG Day related, but I like to think our efforts helped out…our first project is now funded and we are continuing to crank along. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adrift/a-game-to-remember-volume-1?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=A%20game%20to%20remember

Project is funded and has several days left to run!

I saw one post for a DEX-based vengeance paladin and would like to toss in with that idea. An elven, rapier-wielding, vengeance paldin with dueling as their marital style and smites can dish some serious hurt. Your DEX bonus is capped in heavier armor, but you still benefit and can add a shield...

One thing I’ll do, so as to not entirely eliminate the initiative mechanic, is that if my players have initiatives that are stacked in a row, I’ll let them trade out who goes in what order. So let’s say my bard has a 16, the rogue a 15, and the fighter a 10 on their initiatives. Let’s also say...

I love trolls. There’s an encounter in our volume 1 supplement wherein a young man is morphing into a troll, but it can be reversed if the players decide they want to save him in lieu of just outright killing the fellow. I do think the idea of having a savant sahuagin who looks like a sea elf...

I like the fact that the sahuagin are toxifying the environment on multiple levels being a huge tie in for any druid, ranger, paladin (ancients), or cleric with a nature domain. Depending on how hard you wanna go with the environmental theme, you could do a series of mutated non-sahuagin to...

Do you have any interest in tying the ‘mutants‘ in with any Lovecraftian-style elder being, or just keeping it more along the lines of arcane/semi-natural pollution that creates the more powerful versions? Might the sea elves have some ancient stash of written lore that they’ve forgotten about...

They moved catty-corner within the same shopping complex and ended up right next door to Wasteland…which didn’t bode well for Wasteland. On a map, they’d appear to be in the same spot, but now they’re in a massive corner space with tons of natural light and plenty of space. They’re always moving...

A few pictures of the packed Level-Up Games in Duluth from Saturday; large groups of people were going in and out the entire time Hannah and I were in there showing our book to RPG groups.