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I would never let newly created characters pick their magic items personally. I am a bit off the idea since 4e. The idea of a character build built around an item, or the expectation of an item has always bugged me terribly. Having groups where the barbarian has 8str because he expects gauntlets...

I think that letting somebody try and disarm with a bonus action is cool enough, without the double proficiency thing. You could say the DC is 10+proficiency if you wanted to move it away from being a Str reliant athletics check, make it statless instead.

Certainly in my games the DM always controls what turns up and where it turns up. Sometimes if placement is important, the caster makes and arcana/religion/nature roll to reflect finesse in their spell casting and plop a creature in a certain place. More often than not this placement is...

I'm not quiet sure what you are disagreeing with as the post seems to be talking about heavy armor getting discouraged due to the armor piercing quality of guns. I'm a little confused. Is it that pistols are not as piercing as rifles? I certainly couldn't be bothered modelling that personally...

Stealth > Athletics > Investigation for me. Everything else comes in pretty far behind those.

Regarding the OP about guns ignoring armor, I have a simple rule that barring anything unusual, guns treat all ACs as 15 max. - It discourages full armor when you know you are going to face guns, why bother with plate if fighting musketeers? This mirrors a historical shift in progress pretty...

In a somewhat infamous game at my local shop (not one I was involved in) somebody found out they were a wereboar when they came too in a pig pen, having got randy... If you never want to DM again, I suggest that route.

Yeah, that link Rabbitbait is a very good resource. I am a very experienced DM and still found it useful. Partly because I read up on the bits my PCs are NOT doing. That way if they go off the rails and end up in another area, I at least have an idea of how the adventure could flow and the basic...

Isn't a Dex barbarian giving up a lot of the benefits of Rage or is it Reckless Attack, that only works on Str attacks? The Barbarian in my group is Str based and has 14 Dex which, with stealth trained should be fine to play with the rogues. They go a bit ahead, then signal you up when needed...

Further to this, the stereotypes of races vary by village IMC. PCs are often surprised when they find that the Dragonborn is fine at one place, but the Dwarf is not. Here is some fun racism (not a term I have used before hehe) that I have used in the past: Dwarfs = They took our jobs...

Certainly IMC Beholders could still fly in an anti-magic field. Otherwise such a field would kill all undead, the tarrasque would collapse and shatter its own bones because of its impractical weight, a dragon could not fly either due to terrible aerodynamics, elementals would simply cease to...

I DM a 1 character game where the PC is a Paladin. It is extremely hard to balance encounters when any save effect is unlikely to land at all. I have played in a game with two paladins in it too, an ancients and a devotion one. They split up to cover the whole party in their auras. Given that we...

I picture any place where people don't leave their village for fear of the lurking horrors of the unknown eating them, or worse, will be xenophobic to say the least. I would say that any traveller will be looked on with great suspicion. Anything different about that stranger at all will be...

My reading of the adventure is a bit different then I think. As I plan to DM it, it is pretty clearly Earth -> Air -> Water -> Fire. That is not to say you are done with one then move onto the other, but that is the most common order to meet them I think. As for myrmidons in particular, I have...

IMC we use medicine checks to help during short rests. You can use medicine on somebody with a DC of 10, or two people with DC15 during the short rest. Their hit dice expended during the rest are rolled with advantage.

Douchbaggery can be funny and diet-coke-evil can be dramatic. I have actually played a character based on Captain Hammer before, funny you mention that. He was a favored soul, so figured he was good by birth and above all of the none-name nothings of this world. Because he was good by birth...

On a side note, my PCs just picked up a Belt of Ogre strength. The attuned guy has found that he is really hungry all the time and has worked out that is a side effect. What the belt is actually doing is turning him into an ogre, he grow and grows until his size and shape match his strength.

pukunui is your intention for this to be just flavourful, or do you consider this to be treasure? I can't see any PC wearing that, or being allowed to wear that. It is fine as a flavourful thing that they see then put in their packs and never use, but if it is treasure, then the curse is too...

I have used this before: Belt of Masculinity: - Can only be worn by females - Changes sex to Male - Brings height or build to upper end of racial limits - Brings str up to 16 and con up to 14 if they are lower - Wearer becomes physically attractive, a real adonis The players found it very...

The one thing I won't do is play in an evil party. I just sometimes get the feeling that those type of games are feeding peoples' mental illnesses. You should never have to hear somebody describe an action that turns your stomach and I always wonder if people that are into that are actually...