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Why would that be an issue? A 5th level party in a dungeon designed for 6th-level would be fine. A chimaera isn't really a meaningful threat to a 5th level party.

Speak with Dead doesn't make the corpse reveal information it wanted to keep hidden when it was alive. Nebulous' wizard would presumably know this.

Ah, well. That's where you're going wrong. There is no right. Either the information is there in the surface thoughts because he's being reminded of it; his thoughts are distracted by something else and he's not really focusing on their questioning; or he's consciously focusing on something...

If you don't want to just hand over all the info too easily, then the familiar is trained in this kind of stuff; so he's keeping his surface thoughts focused wholly on something innocuous. Perhaps a puzzle or some repetitive mantra. Give him his save; and remember that then he gets a contested...

Isn't that the whole point?

Good idea. Terrible ideas; you don't want the players focused on book-keeping in a fight any more than necessary; nor do you Feels too 'gamified' for my tastes. I prefer to adjust treasure distribution in ways that make more sense in context.

I'm thinking I might resolve my 'what system to use for the next campaign' dilemma by taking bits that I like from 5e; bits I like from previous editions or OSR games and mixing it all together with a percentile skill system into one mishapen and poorly-designed mess of house rules. That sounds...

You get three scorching rays per one action. So your theoretical wizard will kill at least one goblin a large majority of the time; and has a little over a 5% chance of taking out three in one go.

Related to this, I'm bothered by the trend that worldbuilding advice for fantasy worlds seems to be the same as if you were building a world for a hard sci-fi game. People start thinking about things like plate tectonics and realistic climate distributions. Now, aside from the fact that all of...

We do multiple sessions per long rest in 5e, usually. You just need to change the character sheet (since the default one wastes a lot of space on irrelevancies but doesn't seem to care about tracking resources). Works well for my group as long as I keep track of how many rages the barbarian has...

By coincidence, I was just reading an old but relevant article by the ever insightful Angry GM

Let me give the perspective of a noob, as someone who only started GMing two years ago and prior to that had no exposure to DnD, I have never played the slightest attention to alignment in DnD; nor have I read almost any of the flavour text in the Monster Manual. See, I never played DnD...

I agree entirely. I don't bother with alignment in DnD because it seems pointless. But everyone has to pick an alignment when I'm running DCC, because in that game the cosmic battle between Law and Chaos is baked into the rules and nosy, interfering deities have a direct impact on play.

Probably not most, but it's very common among people who played Warhammer before they played DnD. And Warhammer orcs are the best orcs.

Neither. Each area on the world map has a set difficulty and is thus somehow gated until the PCs are able to handle it. They cannot visit Moria at low levels.

I'm finding myself a bit baffled how other people design their monsters or NPCs, to be honest. When you're putting something in your game, the concept predates the stat block. Does anyone really say 'okay, the stuff's been stolen by goblins. Let me go and look at the Monster Manual to find out...

This is how combat works in Mythras. So with a sword, you can keep an enemy with a dagger at bay as they can't get within reach. However, if you manage to close the range as the dagger player (through certain special combat effects or by exposing yourself to an attack) you can then get in so...

Well, it helps to believe that your favourite is objectively the best. I'm currently sat planning a new campaign, and I'm looking at this pile of editions, hacks, house rules, and even a bunch of percentile systems; and I am crippled with paralysis as to what the hell we're going to play. If I...

Today I learned that there are no nipples in the PHB. I discovered this after reading the content rules for DM's Guild, which forbid any depiction of nipples, regardless of gender. I was somewhat taken aback by this excessive puritanism, thinking that WotC's own publications must violate it...

I just ask them to tell me their greatest desire and their greatest fear. That way, they are fooled into thinking I give a crap about their stupid character ideas, and I know how to narrate spells like Fear.