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On the topic of injuries, I would agree that the DMG injury chart is not great. I have my own custom injury chart and these are my tips for making your own. don’t make the results permanent. Instead of “losing a leg”, have them suffer a broken bone or a sprained muscle. Players won’t thank you...

So I play a round is 6 seconds for mechanical aspects like spell durations, but when I am narrating the scene, characters’ and creatures’ actions are narrated to happen one at a time, and often I will describe a monster doing something in reaction to what a character has done to it or one of its...

I try and play D&D as vanilla as I can, but the one place I differ is in the lore for my "evil humanoids". I like having monsters like Goblins and Orcs that are inherently evil so players have no qualms over killing them, but to do this I remove the human and biological aspects from them...

In my current campaign we re-roll initiative after 3 rounds of combat. It works really well accept in the cases were the 4th or 7th round is a “mop up” round, in which case I usually waiver the rule so the last enemy can quickly bite the dust. I do really like the 1d4 idea posted above though...

I think generally the most satisfying choices to give the player are tough choices, so I would say letting them switch between damage types sounds neat, but give it some drawback or requirement to make it a tough decision. Maybe they can only switch once per battle, or week, or until the next...

Seems like a great thing to write some homebrew rules for your own campaign. If I was doing it, I would try to keep the bonuses as small as possible to fit in with the bounded accuracy of 5e. Off the top of my head, having armour types that gives you a bonus of +1 AC against 1 of the 13 damage...

I would love a book on Neverwinter if only because the city has a special place in my heart. Although not reviewed favourably now or when it came out, I love the game Neverwinter Nights and have played it for years and years and years, (buying it again recently for my iPad).

I DM 1 campaign of 5e, usually one session every 2 weeks. I would certainly struggle to run more than 1 campaign. Actually, I would struggle to run this one weekly. Maybe it’s my inexperience, or maybe it’s because I like to do a lot of homebrew/planning/ things like map drawing, but I already...

Sounds like your next encounter needs to be a Hezrou riding a giant skunk commanding a legion of weed eels in battle :cool:

Haha, are there any iconic monsters you have never yet fought as a player or used as a DM, or is it mainly the more obscure monsters from the 1st edition you have never used?

After 2 sessions of downtime that featured no combat, I managed to get another monster heavy session in. (Although the previous 2 sessions were still very fun, they were busy performing in inns, visiting the Ancestral Plane with the aid of peyote rituals and exploring the 'night market')...

Lots of reasons! I love the iconic monsters like beholders, gnolls and gelatinous cubes. I love how much of a sandbox it is, how much variety there is in monsters and playable races. For me the rules hit the sweet spot of options and choices without being overwhelming I love the core gameplay...

Great idea for a thread, I am interested in seeing what people suggest! I have a number of house rules I am running in my current campaign, we’ll see which one becomes the must clutch out of them. One house rule I am having fun with so far is after every 3 rounds of combat initiative is...

A very interesting and varied list indeed! I’m going to add the numbers into mine, as that’s another nice stat to record :D Your players seem to do a lot of evading too. Are you playing quite a stealthy game, or have you set expectations that they may need to avoid a lot of fights?

Random encounter tables seem like a great way to get players to encounter many of the monsters in the MM, especially the benign wild creatures like Unicorns that I would struggle to put in an encounter otherwise! Out of interest, do you let the players see the random encounter tables you use...

I would be hesitant to state that deviating from Tolkien is always a good thing. There are both pros and cons when distancing your D&D world from Tolkienesque fantasy. The more changes you make, the harder you make your game world to recognise for your players. In addition, a big part of the...

As a player, do you think you have fought every monster in the Monster Manual? Or as a DM, do you think you have you used every monster in the Monster Manual? If not, what sort of percentage do you think you have used/fought? And do you keep any sort of log? These are questions that interest...

Another thing that has been toying in my mind, is the notion of setting difficult challenges for yourself as the DM to accomplish during a combat. We've already talked about establishing the motivations of your enemies, and this covers a lot of the same ground, but there is something extra I...

Thanks for the welcome! It’s really appreciated :D

Yes, the classic problem with morale comes to dungeons, where each time an enemy flees it makes the next encounter harder. One solution is the one Matt Coalville advocates for, which is the number of goblins in the next room never changes. If 2 goblins flee into the next room, the 4 goblins...