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Welcome to another edition of Klaw's Tomb of Annihilation post-game show. This is really in reference to session #3 this weekend. (No conflicts arouse from session #2). Before i get started, heres the player line up again: - Laucian, the moon elf ranger from the Emerald Enclave, - Gank, the...

All good points. Thank you. At this point, the drama is over. It was a bad move on her part, but admittedly, I as DM could have been softer, i suppose. You live. You learn. Unfortunately for her, this is Tomb of Annihilation, and PCs cannot come back to life.

Good point, Iserith! You always have good input on these boards! So yeah, i think she just got fed up with the rest of the group who were mulling over how to handle a tribe of 40 goblins. There was discussion among the group members previously, but no consensus was made, and she just decided to...

Thanks. That's refreshing to hear. I'm not claiming to be the best DM, but i definitely thought that i played the goblins true. The goblins actually tried to communicate a trade with the other players, pointing at their pack lizard (beast of burden) in exchange for the corpse of the dead monk...

I like your idea about giving the goblin boss the ability to talk to the characters, either in common or some other language. After all, the Monster Manuel says goblins can speak common. I just felt they were a backwards race of rarer goblins living in the primitive jungles of Chult without much...

I've never done a story time, but i don't mind objective feedback from time to time. I'm a veteran DM playing since 2nd Ed. I just wrapped up Out of the Abyss, and now, I'm running my first session of Tomb of Annihilation. Of course, i always make sure to gauge how my players felt, but bring...

It took us three years to finish that adventure path, and we concluded the final battle with Orcus beating everyone. It was definitely fun with the battle royale as all my players got to fight against each other using their favorite Demonlord!! I had Graz'zt make a deal with a powerful NPC...

Fair enough. Would you then, allow, say the 20th level wizard in the party to cast Wish to tame the ferocious demon possessed red dragon? Cause i suspect that's what they plan on doing if i rule against the rogue.

LEvel 20 stuff is really good, but players still just want to stretch it to be more!

Good points all around....especially about explaining ahead of time.

All deals with Graz'zt have turned sour over the course of the game. This is the final session, and there is no more working with Graz'zt. It's do or die!

Stroke of Luck is pretty good, but i don't think that a 20th level rogue would be able to use Stroke of Luck to tame a demonically possessed red dragon (by Graz'zt) in our epic finally boss fight this upcoming weekend. He wants to use it sort of like an ability check akin to Handle Animal...

Wall of Stone. My player (a dwarf druid) wanted to cast the wall of stone in the air and have the whole stone wall fall down on top of a beholder for ungodly amounts of damage. Like an idiot, i allowed it. The campaign is over now, and this has always bothered me because i never looked the...

This thread is specifically for those DMs who have decided to allow third party source material in their games. We are starting up Tomb of Annihilation soon, and a few of my players want to be monster races from Volo's Guide (which is fine), and even new classes from Unearthed Arcana (what the...

Ive been DMing for many years now, and enjoy it very much. I just finished up Out of the Abyss, and it went great. However, it almost felt like we were "power gaming" by the end of the adventure path. As I normally do with almost all my games, I allowed my players to roll their stats at the...

With our group, we try to play weekly, so that everyone is immersed in the game, and we can look forward to kicking butt after a tough work/school week. everyone in the group understands and agreed to make this a sort of committment, but we all understand that emergencies happen, and things...

No offense but I don't like it. I don't think my players would either.. It's a nice try, but no one wants to keep track of something else in the game.

Fair enough. Im just wondering if its worth it to get all excited about the new Tomb of Annhilation book when it seems that i could very well make my own Chult adventure and toss in the Tomb of Horrors dungeon from the Tales from the Yawning Portal without buying another book whose main dungeon...

Aceterak makes another "dastardly tomb"? with the same green devil face and juggernaut?

i dont think its a good idea to take a level of exhaustion to regain something else. it doesn't make sense. However, im considering making exhaustion a more important part of the game. Giving exhaustion levels for all sorts of things like suffering a critical hit, becoming bloodied, going on a...