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We’ve actually begun and had our first session. A good time was had by all! A new idea: I‘m thinking of moving the wizard‘s tower complex to a caldera within the island. Having it be yet another sea oriented location seems tedious and this way they get an opportunity/reason to explore the...

I also won’t be doing that but I’ve also changed critical hits from players so that they have some impact to the fight beyond just doing damage, for example if an NPC is using concentration to some effect against the PCs then a critical hit from a player would force that NPC to drop...

Agree with much of what’s been posted and very happy to see that combat during long rest has at last been clarified!

Happy to see they're reworking the DMG to make it more friendly to new DMs. It's ass-backwards at the mo :)

Sadly, I’ve finally come down with Covid so we’re not starting tonight as planned :(

Also thinking that the PCs might be suspected of being zombies themselves especially if they're bedraggled from the battle on the beach. Seems likely a fun roleplay moment with some Kobold guards on the path leading up to the Dragon's Rest.

Doing some more prep before kicking off the adventure tomorrow evening and it strikes me that the story could be made richer if both Sparkrender and Aidron had once been at the Dragon's Rest helping Runara with her research. Sparkrender came across some tempting secret and decided to pursue it...

At least my complaints are trying to be in support of new players. I didn’t start DMing that long ago, so the pain is still fresh :D

Surprised by the credit you give the adventure tbh. It's a fraction of the adventure content in LMoP and provides very little motivation to the players to actually engage with the quests except for some light incentives from the backgrounds. Not that I love LMoP but it's certainly got way more...

This is exactly what is missing IMHO. I was very happy when GiffyGlyph included it in their Trials system which is a variation on the Skill Challenges: https://www.giffyglyph.com/darkerdungeons/grimoire/4.0.0/en/trials.html

I haven't yet, but I will now thanks!

Perhaps I should have said space-fantasy?

I know nothing about Spelljammer, but I do like sailing ships and adventure. However when I look at Spelljammer art it seems like it's a bit too sci-fantasy for my more regular fantasy taste, and isn't sailing the Astral Sea kind of a super high level activity? I guess I'm wondering what kind of...

Isn’t this the “magic words“ hoop that we all say we decry?

Yeah, My group said they loved puzzles and so I added some logic puzzles to a wizard's lair and it was the least fun they had the entire time we played. Something about it being "on the clock" made the puzzles more stress than fun. I stuck with exploration puzzles (like finding hidden switches...

That could be it. I just want a fun little adventure over the first few levels that doesn’t try to be too clever and doesn’t have weird continuity issues. :)

Because it’s an easy way to make money? And it makes the entry point seem fresh? And this is the first real basic introduction to 5e. I’ve always been of the opinion that LMoP was actually an intro to 5e for current players, not an intro to D&D for new players. And you can see the difference...

I got told the same about LMoP when I struggled with it as a new DM, so I guess we’ll have to disagree. :)

Perhaps, but I can’t believe they gave this one even the barest play test! :D

Yep Yep, I think I really didn’t have a good plan for handling the random asides:“while in the market square I’m going to find a vendor of X” etc