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To expand on my earlier response, Trent TREEZnor.

I mostly agree, but I think there's a work around that slipped my mind during this session. The 5E text of mage hand specifies the hand can't carry more than 10 lbs which I think could be interpreted to mean the hand can't exert more than 10 lbs of force. A quick Google of force required to open...

I had been thinking of the two options, insects vs reptiles, as a matter of color overlaying an identical set of mechanics, but I found the suggestion of an intensification of difficulty from insects to reptiles to be compelling enough to bump up the save DC when using reptiles (snakes) from 10...

Juan López, a prominent anti-mining activist, was gunned down in Honduras Saturday as he left a church in his northeastern town of Tocoa.

I decided to go with one large jar, sort of an amphora, containing the gold pieces along with a small venomous snake and to telegraph the presence of the snake by including the lid being punctured with tiny holes in describing the jar once the PCs were close enough to see them. I would call for...

I'm assuming the difficulties you've mentioned of avoiding poisonous insects or striking snakes are predefined in Torchbearer with the idea being it's harder to avoid snakes than it is insects. I think that's interesting with reference to the entry I'm working with in DMG, Appendix A, "Poisonous...

It's for a 5.0E game, but I wanted responses to the thread to be open to all editions. The situation itself is coming from the 1E DMG, Appendix A: Random Dungeon Generation, so I figured there might be a variety of approaches, possibly depending on edition, Haha, those are practically made for...

Ah, that's good. It brings it back to before the trap is triggered which is something I was missing to make it not a gotcha. I think I'll skip the spring loading, but thanks for the visual!

Yep, they're normal size insects/reptiles, so not much of a threat outside of the situation of blindly opening a jar with them inside. That's why I'm thinking about how to handle things if a player does just that.

Hello everybody, The situation is there are some ceramic lidded jars containing gold pieces and poisonous live insects or reptiles. How would you run this? I'm thinking of it as more of a trap than a combat but am open to ideas anyone has. Thanks!

This is what I found myself thinking during the blob monster sequence, or rather, why did they need to bring him so low? I get they're telling a rags to riches (to rags) story with him, but a blob monster? And in that coronation scene, he hasn't quite hit rock bottom yet. He's on the run, yes...

Just my impression of the character which the show has so far failed to live up to. In fact, it reminded me that no depiction of Sauron in any visual media has. Halbrand is my favorite Sauron (in TV or movies) so far, but that's not saying much.

At this point, I’ve only watched the first episode and found it as slow-paced as, or even slower than, season one. I thought the depiction of Sauron in the coronation scene was pathetic. He seemed so naive and unsure of himself whereas he'd been built up in season one as a powerful sorcerer...

Alberto Fujimori, Peruvian ex-dictator, died Wednesday at the age of 86.

Yes, I was talking about the sequel, Return to the Keep on the Borderlands.

I don't remember establishing any kind of a wider setting when I ran the original module in the early 80's, but when I ran the D&D Next version in around 2013, I set it in the "Dreadmarsh" area just east of the Yeomanry, influenced by the western Yeomanry placement in RttKotB. I've thought since...

Except for some armored bits like the small vambraces and what appear to be leather spaulders, I'd have to agree the leather bodice she's wearing doesn't appear to be anything like a cuirass. So I think this character is probably either a sorcerer or a wizard, although she could also be a monk.

@Shadowedeyes, remember the giant is prone giving you advantage on those attacks. You might get a crit!

I was thinking of something like this, which although it's used in the wikipedia article on gambesons, appears to be more of a 17th century buff coat, so I guess I'll go back to no armor in the picture, although, again, it does seem to be an attempt to depict a fantasy version of armor. I.e...

Although her shoulders seem reinforced (at least the one we can see), and she's wearing some small metal vambraces over her gloves, I wouldn't say this constitutes a "suit" of leather armor since she doesn't even appear to be wearing a breastplate of boiled leather. Therefore, I agree that this...