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Suggestion: extend OA so that as an alternative to making a single attack you can opt to Follow instead. As the opponent moves away (which is what provoked the OA) you can use your Reaction to move up to your speed to try to remain in contact. If the opponent moves again for any reason before...

Build on that. As a reward for completing a suitable milestone, the king instructs his steward to offer to sell them a plot of land. If they buy it, they become landowners and have privileges not available to the common folk, like the right to bear arms, and travel about freely, and use magic in...

You could offer to sell them a house. They can feel good about having a safe place to go home to between adventures, and it probably won't hurt the campaign unless it relies on hanging around inns a lot. Also, they might have to defend it sometimes ...

You have misunderstood the concept of copyright. You have republished WotC's material. You aren't allowed to do that. That's what copyright is all about. Only WotC has the right to publish its own material. No-one else is allowed to do it without a licence from WotC, and you haven't got one...

Okay, thanks for clarifying. That simplifies things. Decide how many rounds you want the combat to last before all the duergar are killed. Enough so that the players feel like it's been a good fight, but not so long that they start to get bored with it. You know your players, so decide on that...

What purpose does the encounter serve, in the context of the adventure as a whole? What are the duergar hoping to achieve? Are they trying to slow the party down, or to weaken them, or to scare them away, or to take prisoners, or to get themselves pointlessly killed, or ... what?

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I think a practical lesson we can draw from this thread is that if you allow the UA Artificer class, you must expect to have to handle weapons with 500ft ranges. You can accommodate that in TOTM but if you use minis with a scale of 5ft=1 inch, you are going to need a gaming table about ten feet...

There's a reason why no-one else has done it.

"Ah, you want the GT model with leather trim," he answers. "A wise choice. Just for you pal, because you're a good customer, we can do it on special order." "Now, friend," he continues, "As you are about to make possibly the most important purchase of your career, allow me to demonstrate how...

You are approached by an exceptionally small but shifty-looking gnome artificer, carrying what looks like an oak staff. He wants to sell it to you for 100gp, which seems like a lot for a wooden staff. Especially as it radiates nothing at all. But then he explains that this is a barrel stave and...

Instead of requiring attunement, it requires atonement ?

My take on the original question: By declaring that they are readying an attack, the two front rankers had ipso facto initiated combat. So you roll initiative immediately and decide about surprise, before the monsters even appear around the corner. It seems reasonable to say that the...

Me too. Go ahead, Danny, roll the credits.

One problem - the "last updated" time in the forum index relates to the last post, and doesn't allow for updates to the wiki-ized first post. So you can't tell on first visiting the forum if a wiki has been updated unless the updater also posts a comment about it.

Time to confuse things with yet another character According to legend Poseidon (who appeared about 50 posts back) had a thing with Tyro, the daughter of Salmoneus, which is kind of neat. Salmoneus's brother Sisyphus was a nasty piece of work by all accounts and, having annoyed an entire...

That would be brill

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I don't want to damper your enthusiasm, but the examples you have quoted are examples of improvised actions where the DM has to make up his own rules on the spur of the moment. They aren't in the books. In 5e, you can't move through a hostile creature's space unless it is at least two sizes...

Sorry, but I can't make the next session. Something's cropped up that I have to deal with. Hermione