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Tippy spoke to a passing urchin. "Blessings upon thee, small urchin," he intoned, "We are travellers from afar, seeking a place to stay in this city." In exchange for a copper piece, the urchin recommended somewhere he called "The Eppy" and when Tippy looked blank, he elaborated. "The...

Flora helped Tippy up and cast Mud to Marmalade because it was funnier that way. They walked on and, with Tasha's local knowledge to guide them, they soon reached the city without further difficulty. The guard at the city gate asked for their documents and checked them thoroughly, which took no...

Just then, Tippy managed to slip on the only banana skin for a hundred miles and fell flat on his face in the mud. SPLAT!

"You're overthinking this," Albert explained a the perplexed Macfeece. "Tasha, here, is a Half/Orc. She is half Half and half Orc. One half is a Half but her Orc half is a half too, so that makes two halves, both of them Half-Orcs. I don't understand the problem?" "It's not in the books ..."...

Yes, that's the way experienced players play and it's a normal part of the "social contract", even if it's an unspoken one: "Screwing up can be fatal." But the OP has described a situation where the players apparently hadn't taken that thought on board or, if they did, they hadn't taken it...

You weren't being unfair, but you weren't making it much fun for the players. TPK isn't fun unless it is magnificently heroic. They have learnt that if plans go wrong you won't be forgiving and the risk of character death is real. Suddenly, the game isn't funny any more, and they weren't...

The good news is, that the 5e rules for hiding objects already exist. The bad news is, they are written on papyrus scrolls inside a canopic jar covered by a permanent illusion to look like a figurine of an ocelot; the jar is concealed inside the false bottom of a sarcophagus inside one of the...

She started to stir.......... Flora groggily opened one eye and saw nothing special. She was aware of being wet and ... oops, how embarrassing, her chintz dress seemed to have disappeared. The blushed green and hoped there was nobody about. Then she groggily opened the eye on the other side of...

Yes, I get that. You want the players to know about, and operate within, what is described in the PHB. But let us remember that 5e is the first time that the complete playing rules have been included in the PHB. Previously, right back to AD&D, the rules were in the DMG and players weren't...

You missed out "Swing from Chandelier", "Throw Halfling", "Somersault Over Opponent" and a few others. If you teach players that they have exactly 10 options, it limits their imagination and turns it into a video game with 10 buttons on the controller. Let the player do anything - it's up to...

Keyes returned shortly, waving some envelopes. "The mail has arrived," she called. "Looks like we've got some replies to the intern advert." "Great," remarked Foghorn, "Let's see what we've got. Here, Tippy, you can help us sort through them. We need dragon-finders, no experience necessary."...

"Please don't get up," said Sister Jericho as she joined them. But it was to no avail; Tippy, being in the presence of a lady, automatically sprang to his feet as old-fashioned good manners dictated. In doing so, of course, he knocked over the table and spilt his beer again. Why are we not...

I cast Augury first, of course. Then ignored the result because I didn't like it, and cast Create Thread anyway. I'll check the new thread later to see how you guys want to drive the narrative forward. No pressure ...

Simplify the game. Let the players use average damage and write it on their own character sheets for each weapon or cantrip attack. It saves worrying about which dice to roll. Put away your dice and resolve everything that is hit-or-miss, including attacks, with the toss of a coin. It's just...

Foghorn was happy. Since he had retired from adventuring and hung up his Battleaxe1, keeping a tavern was what he did now and he was enjoying it. The striped canvas awning above his head rustled gently in the breeze; it was covering the place where some totally disinterested old school druids...

I think we ought to start a new thread if we are going to do that. How about "Tales from the Awning Pothole" as a title? New thread

While you're working on that, I've got this idea for a 3D model of the Druid's Head in cast resin. It will have a makeshift roof of striped canvas covering where the thatch is missing, and a big hole in the floor leading down to mysterious underground caverns. Just the thing for adventurers to...

Oh, we don't need a DM. We can just make stuff up as we go along. :D

Char-Ging was dragged away, bound and gagged, and put on trial on a great many charges. It didn't help her case that the judge's wife was Cholmondeley's aunt Lettice and words had very pointedly not been spoken across the breakfast table that morning. Not that that affected his impartiality of...

Explain to your players that you will be working from the Third Printing of the PHB but don't tell them what's different. Let them worry about it.