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I'd love to know what ideas others have for extending Wave Echo Cave. PCs are expected to be 5th level upon completion of Lost Mines of Phandelver (LMoP). I have a party of six PCs I'd like to raise to 6th level by extending the map of Wave Echo Cave. I was thinking it might be fun to...

How'd it go? I'm guessing you had to pull some of Strahd's punches. I've just been re-reading the 1e module and Strahd would just as equally dominate a party of low level AD&D PCs: a 10th level magic-user attacking as a 10 HD monster draining TWO levels PERMANENTLY each time he hits. Holy...

Yeah, except now I'm scrambling for a 5th level adventure. Sigh.

Yeah, you're right. Strahd is supposed to attack frequently before the party finds the artifacts. I've just run through the numbers and the 5e vampire will overwhelm a party of six level 5 PCs over successive attacks. It just will. And there's no way Strahd can stalk the party to take advantage...

Maybe post a screenshot of the layout using the average visitor's screen dimensions. Your web analytics app probably collects the data. I find the narrower headings produce a blocky "tombstone" effect on the page. The dark grey background with the dark blue type are just these dark slabs on...

It's unreasonable to only get one dose from a purple worm! It should be tied to the size of the creature.

The 5e vampire has such cool ideas. I'm really glad the first time the players face a 5e vampire that it's Strahd. As a generic vampire, Strahd can summon 2d4 warms of bats once a day (each a medium-sized creature). It's excellent cover for surprise and/or retreat. If the swarm's timed with an...

All things considered except that the existing and incredibly convenient 5e conversion is adapting the original AD&D, is for 5th level (next adventure, after Phandelver!) and has in-text stats blocks for all these encounters: key number Encounter p.3 1 Strahd k7 2 wyverns k8 4 gargoyles k20 1...

What are the 10 temp hit points? Where do they come from?

I've just added all the experience and modified for 6 PCs, including giving just half experience for single monsters. Assuming they kill every creature in the module, it's 13.5K xp each, which is enough to advance characters past 6th but still well shy of 7th (20k of 23K xp).

A straight 5e Vampire is CR 13 and 10,000 xp. A Warrior or Spellcaster Vampire is CR 15 and 13,000 xp; combining them would be even tougher. There are six PCs in my party, and they'll be 5th level after finishing Phandelver. I suppose they'd level up to 6th or even 7th before the climactic...

I was really looking forward to having Strahd cast spells, then I read the 5e conversion, which scales him down to a CR 13 regular vampire from a CR 15 spellcaster. To keep the caster variant spells my party would need to be higher level and I'd have to scale the other monsters too. It's already...

I bought it. It's mostly good. (I have no idea how Dwarves dug out the West side of the map, given that you need a submarine to get there. Must be where corridor 12 leads to ...) I'm thinking 500 years ago a Dwarven historian commissioned the Phandelver wizards to design a teleportation device...

Do you mean you stopped assigning experience points during Phandelver once the players hit 3rd level? (Doubt that would go over well with my players.) But Hoard is still a challenge when starting with level 3 PCs?

For those of us not running HotDQ, what adventure are you running after Phandelver? I'm considering this 5e conversion of Ravenloft. My only concern is a cramped battle map in that mansion. If I had the time, I'd convert the uber-fun Dark Tower and make Jaquays' delicious maps more...

I decided to scale on the fly for the first session and the only combat so far has been the ambush and Cragmaw Hideout. I increased goblins in each encounter by 50%, simple enough. I gave Klarg a second wolf and a third goblin, hard on the heels of 5 goblins in the adjoining room (rather than...

I've found the lovely Greenest encounter generator over at Detect Magic, but what else is available? I haven't DMed in years and years and could use any fixes the community's devised! I'm so rusty :( edit: this blog post has a nice roundup of HDQ ideas Thanks!

Thanks. Interestingly, the pseudodragon poison has a small chance of rendering the target unconscious, on a saving throw of 6 or less vs DC 11. I think I'll do something similar and house rule that if the saving throw vs basic poison is 5 or less (on the DC 10 con check) that the target is...

The Basic Poison is 100 gp for three applications, and it's the only poison in the PHB as far as I know. A creature hit by a poisoned weapon or ammo makes a DC 10 constitution check or suffers 1d4 damage. My question is, is the creature then poisoned as per the condition in the appendix? If...

Thanks! This is fantastically useful. One suggestion: consider converting the fractions in the CR column to decimal numbers. As fractions, they don't sort.