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It was some sort of monster special ability, and there wasn't any concentration involved - although since this is our first 5th edition campaign the DM might have missed it.

I used Sunless Citadel as my introduction to RHoD; I gave the kobolds links to the Red Hand and it seemed to work quite well. I appreciate the OP was looking for shorter adventures, if you remove the second level and the plot elements relating to it then it needn't take many sessions to run.

In my Pathfinder games, the vast array of magical cloaks might as well not exist - even the ones that are interesting, very useful and quirky. Instead, everyone buys the best cloak of resistance they can afford, and upgrades it as soon as they can afford a better one, since failing saving...

I have that - picked it up second hand on eBay at some point. I'm not familiar with the Deryni books themselves, but it seems to be a good introduction to the setting. I've never actually played it. It's for FUDGE, which isn't very similar to D&D, but I don't think it would be too difficult to...

You could ask the player if he needs any help coming up with his backstory. If he doesn't need any help, and genuinely doesn't care about backstory and/or just wants to play a drifter who goes wherever the whim takes him, is that a problem for your campaign? As others have mentioned, the main...

Agreed, "compatible" with 5th edition D&D would be the obvious choice for a new game as it probably has the largest "built-in" market. If, for whatever reason, 5th edition is a bad fit then I'd suggest using another existing game system such as Savage Worlds or Fate. It's a lot easier than...

Me too! Perhaps I should have included "I'm a sucker for boxed sets" in my original list of reasons for backing a kickstarter. I'll almost certainly never get to use it in a game, but I'd hate to be in the position where my gaming group were demanding some mouse-based RPGing and I didn't have...

I've backed 115 kickstarters so far. I already have way more RPG stuff than I can ever use, so I back stuff that looks interesting or if I want to support the creator, or if somebody whose opinion I respect recommends it. I don't normally even read the updates, but if there aren't any updates...

In my headcanon, the Merchant Princes of Port Nyanzaru do not tolerate foreign competition. If they can impress Zhanthi then she could let them join her organisation, and they could potentially become highly valued subordinates. However, the Princes aren't about to let a foreign merchant...

As I understand it, historically a key function of guilds was to provide a barrier to entry. A guild structure could dramatically cut down on the number of people "accredited" to provide RPG content, increasing the salaries of guild members by preventing everybody else from working in the...

So how far is that? The topic isn't actually about waiting on tables, which obviously deserves a living wage. Do people deserve a living wage regardless of what they decide to spend their time doing? There has been more talk lately in the UK of a universal basic income, but we aren't...

Is that actually a problem? I'll happily write an adventure for you, free of charge, for any system with which I am familiar. (Seriously - if you want one, just let me know.) Gareth Hanrahan, on the other hand, will charge you the going rate. However, if you pay Gareth you know you'll get...

Did we ever resolve whether you could use a lance in two hands when mounted? Maybe I ought to necro the thread and find out.

As I understand it, 4th edition was a "blue sky thinking" RPG where, for whatever reason, the initial product was deemed unsatisfactory and discarded, meaning they had to start again but still meet the original publication date. So I agree with "especially unfinished to a detrimental degree"...

The UK has free* healthcare. The US does not **. That makes a big difference. Also, the UK has end-of-life care homes which, while not free, have a maximum cost of "all of your assets". I assume elderly Americans get what they can pay for and nothing more. *Free at the point of delivery, or...

There's a fifth edition version of Winter's Daughter available. I'm not sure how easy it would be to convert Black Wyrm to a "non-OSR" version, but it's a great adventure.

As the GM, party composition is not my responsibility so there can be no failure or oversight on my part. The players decide what they want to play; how they arrive at that decision (individually or collectively) is up to them. (I will, of course, offer suggestions to new players, and give...

Actually, Heart of the Jungle is a sourcebook, not an adventure.

My point was that sometimes I do worldbuilding without having an actual group to run it for, as the mood takes me. Maybe I'll end up running it with a group and maybe I won't, but until that happens 1) is not possible as I don't consider there to be any "play" in this context. However, I still...

University was the first chance I had to see an "outside" DM - all the other DMs I'd had were my friends, and we'd all had to learn the game together without an experienced player to show us how it was done. At that point I learned that I wasn't a very good DM, but that I was by no means the...