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Having just purchased it on D&D Beyond, and had a quick glance so far. It it looks interesting and am keen to incorporate it into my campaign asap. Plenty of stuff to mine for ideas in this one even if you don't run the whole thing. Dwellers of the Forbidden City was my first, and still my...

We always use 4d6-lowest , arrange to suit (I have done since introduced to AD&D back in 1983). We roll in front of the group. Occasionally I allow a reroll of 1 or very rarely 2 stats if really bad. I still prefer there be at least 2x 15s or higher (one race bonuses are added) even though stat...

For those (if any) opposed to more gay characters/inclusiveness of LBGT characters in D&D here is a speech from the NZ parliament in the debate prior to a vote to adopt legalising same sex marriages in 2013. The bill was passed and this is one of the best, and funniest, speeches made by an MP on...

So D&D is a children's game? Really? Since when? I know a few children play it but in my experience it mainly starts being played by teenagers or young adults and often at a time in their lives when people are exploring and figuring out their sexuality. I do not have any issue with D&D being...

No issue with imposing neo-colonial ideologies on the rest of the world though, those poor "developing peoples" surely western democracy is the answer to all their prayers... yeah right.

Recently my group got to fight an adult dragon, in the open while they were surprised (it came roaring down a gully they were creeping though). The dragon swooped down, picked up the barbarian and dropped him from a great height...splat. The rogue ran out on to the plains to help as did the...

Sam. these days I tend to turn wilderness/exploration section into a 4-5 room dungeon, which is how I prefer to do my wilderness exploration these days and gloss over the mapping and day to day stuff. I tend to preplan them and would do something along the lines of: • Combat encounter • Role...

The wars never happened in my game but have used them for inspiration of smaller wars/events. My game has been non-canonical since 1983. IMO canon doesn't survive the first contact with ANY Pcs, it is their actions, or inactions which will and do define the campaign and let it grow in most...

I' hadn't run WPM since the mid 80s but have been running it for the past few weeks/months (we had a break for a few weeks to try Adventures in Middle Earth. I had started by converting the original then swapped to the Yawning Portal version when it came out. I moved WPM further north into the...

One of the downsides of unlimited cantrips. How long does it take to burn through a door, now though is the question. Wood is flammable, sure but a dungeon door is not paper so I'd rule a heavy dungeon type door should be flame resistant at the very least- firebolt is not like a welding torch...

I still run my Greyhawk as heavily influenced by 20+ years of 1E (&2E) and having had run games in Greyhawk (at various times) since 1983. I allow all classes and subclasses in the PHB but not all races (only the 1E core races are allowed) and do have class restrictions (eg no dwarf wizards) but...

I've always been a fan of the 1E system of stronghold building and am using my own rules for developing strongholds/ domains. In my current Greyhawk campaign my pcs so far have: taken over Feathergale Spire and Rivergard keep (that latter of which was later ruined in retaliation by humanoids...

Whereas in 1E & 2E wilderness travel was damn dangerous and tended to be for mid level characters onwards, before that you explored near your homebase. Not sure what the answer is, I quite like the Adventures in Middle Earth system and intend to adapt their overland journeys rules to 5E and...

It seems to be working great so far, all my players have become "shadow point police" happy to dob in their companions when they say or do something they feel is worth of a shadow point check. Adds a lot of humour to our already crazy games. Stormdale

We've been playing AiME for the last few weeks and thoroughly enjoying it. I'm adapting some of the ToR books (The Darkening of Mirkwood campaign) to it and also some 5E adventures of my own. My group is enjoying the change of pace and and the games ME mechanics (journey's, shadow points...

Slight aside- and possible spoiler ahead. My game somehow got involved with G2 on Friday afternoon (a hook I threw the parties way and they bit) so did a rapid comparison of the G1-G3 version vs the TotYP one. Giant numbers are way down, I think I'll be adding more to beef the place up a bit...

With my guys it would take at least twice that time, maybe 3 times- they ted to get distracted easily and wander off in all sorts of random directions. Traditionally it has been used as a lead in to the Slavers series- not far off on the Wild Coast/Pomarj- but if you do the entire T1-4 then...

In that case don't! Run T1 and see where it goes from there. You could add elements of PoTA rather than T2-4 or it could lead into the Slavers series for instance. It doesn't have to be a megacampaign from the get go. Stormdale

I’ve run T1 (-4) several times, in fact my current campaign is a mash up for T1, RttToEE (I used their verison of the Moathouse) and PoTA which I placed in Greyhawk. Most enjoyable campaign was one where I linked all the pcs to the movers and shakers in Hommlet back in the early 2000s and using...

Well they did come out in 1978/79 or thereabouts. The whole hobby was amateur back then. IIRC your average 1E hill giant had 40 odd hps- Under 1E G1 was not that hard but G2 and G3- they were a different story. It is a great location and have had several great campaigns the steading was an...