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    D&D 5E (2014) Tales From The Awning Pothole

    At the base of the tunnel they espied their first quarry trying to reach the surface: A small pack of...................... ... utterwolves. On seeing the party-splitted-party the utterwolves snarled and turned on them, growling disapproval. Their leader, Black-Ears, demanded utter loyalty from...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 101 Kender Apocalypse Ideas

    I was going to post in this thread, but someone small and cute seems to have 'borrowed' the Reply box.
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    D&D 5E (2014) CoS Nightmare

    Seems to me that your DM is stacking the odds against you and killing your enjoyment of the game. If a creature is grappled, it isn't helpless; it can still attack or attempt to break free. Did you not know that? Also, AFAIK there is no rule in the 5e books saying that you have a 50% change of...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Tales From The Awning Pothole

    Alber't'ickle screamed, swayed on his feet and collapsed, his arm pumping blood. Tippy was there in a flash, applying a tourniquet from his medical kit. Ha! returned looking as white as a sheet, holding Albert's severed hand. There was a general air of that didn't go well, did it? GlibbleFleep...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Tales From The Awning Pothole

    "Well, mummy, Uncle Toothpaste - he's got lots of books - and my friend Claude and me ..." began the Tickle part of Alber't'ickle, and he went on with an account of the rather unlikely sequence of events that had brought them from the Awning Pothole to here, on the shores of Lake Detritus. "I...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Tales From The Awning Pothole

    Something stirred in the water...................... It was something huge and terrifying and the water rose and fell fifty feet at least, throwing miscellaneous rubbish around like discarded toys. An eight-foot long wooden pole fell randomly at Alber't'ickle's feet. He picked it up, thinking...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Do You DM or Play with Flair?

    The party were down on hp after the last skirmish, and Ignatio, Cleric of All Gods and None In Particular, started healing his comrades. When he came to Bobbles the Halfling Rogue, a voice from on high suddenly intervened. "Rogues are chaotic and healing a non-lawful creature is non-lawful...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Do You DM or Play with Flair?

    I agree with the comments above. Alignment restrictions don't make characters more entertaining and fun, they are just another form of railroading.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Are You Planning on Subscribing to D&D Beyond

    No, but don't let me stop you.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Tales From The Awning Pothole

    "Flaplyjacklespanglyploop!" Which Tippy roughly translated as...............................a warning to everyone to Swim Away! Swim Away! With a sudden roar of flames, the hypersonic dance chamber shot back up its tunnel taking the evil gang of four back to the surface world to continue their...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Tales From The Awning Pothole

    Then it happened. Alber't'ickle advanced the volume throttles up to full military power and pushed them right on through the gates. The afterburners kicked in with a roar and the whole room vibrated violently as it went through Mach 1. For a short time, skeletons were tossed in the air...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Tales From The Awning Pothole

    A metal gate barred their way. Igoatunot looked up from the book he was reading, Schweizerdeutsch für den kleinen Zauberer, and recognised the situation immediately. "Kes problaam," he said confidently and voiced a few arcane syllables. There was a loud SMANG! noise as his Knock spell went off...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Tales From The Awning Pothole

    Igoatunot tapped one of the screens experimentally with his staff to see if it was made of arcanium or something ordinary like glass. Seemingly in response, a pattern of runic characters suddenly appeared across the bottom of it. They made no sense; for one thing, they were all different. He...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Tales From The Awning Pothole

    Footnote sat down in an archway and wept. Before him was a vaulted stone chamber that was the legendary Crypt of Javas. Windows to left and right had cunningly-wrought screens set into the frames. The screens were blue. They were the blue screens of death. In the middle of the floor was a...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Tales From The Awning Pothole

    The sand was suddenly kicked up by a beating of wings, as Flora landed in front of them. Or behind them, depending how you look at it. "Daddy said you would be here," she announced cheerfully, "but he didn't say you would be walking backwards. Why are you doing that?" "Because of the medusa...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Tales From The Awning Pothole

    "I'll get them eventually," muttered Time to himself. Then he had a cunning idea. "Time is an illusion," he reminded himself. He would cover the real oasis with an illusion to make it look like a mirage. Then, when they got to the oasis they would think it was just a mirage and go off searching...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Tales From The Awning Pothole

    It's time's fault. But it works pretty well if we pretend they happened in reverse order. And so the car rolled toward the oasis........ "Dang!" said Time, "I though I had them then. If this wasn't such an average thread, I would have done, too." Time went back to his abode in timeland and...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Stranger Things 2 doubles down on D&D

    There are some official monster minis on the blue map, bottom centre of the picture. I remember the tiny giant rat one that's nearest the camera, but I can't make out the others.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Tales From The Awning Pothole

    "When opening a Troll Gate," recited Ikidunot reading from The Practical Odometer, "it is important to know the serial number, which will be on a bar code on the back panel. Depending on the model, it may be necessary to remove the fascia assembly first, which will be retained by 17 self-losing...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Tales From The Awning Pothole

    Tippy was just about to get the plot moving forward again by asking the dragon about her daughter when.............. In the city of Babylon, Marduk spake unto his pet dragon Mušḫuššu and he spake thus: "What are these idiots doing? I sent them to drive mine enemies from the Oasis of Pain and...
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