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Splitting the party can be deadly. Going a little ahead is fine, but go too far ahead and you might be in big trouble. In my current game a character scouted too far ahead, was suprised by a pack of ghouls and killed in a surprise round. Not great, but certainly made the group realise that this...

You should try Numenara or Cypher System. It's a long time since I played these but I think they use that base mechanic. Good fun and you have a lot more narrative control as a player than in D&D. Worth a look anyway.

Running away is always a good tactic.

It depends on your story. If a story is completely character driven then killing off that character kills the campaign. If the story is event driven, then a character can die and other characters can pick up the story. My campaigns tend to have a bit of a mix of those, but I think that it is...

Cool. It should work. I have not seen that module, but the other WoTC modules I have seen all work that way.

Are you going onto the dynamic lighting layer and deleting the line over the door when a door is opened? That's the usual convention - block the light on the doors seperately (and with a different colour) so that you can delete that small section easily.

If you look in the roll20 marketplace there are a heap of different styles of templates you can use. The rest (particularly lighting ones) I just have small shapes that emit light that I pull out on the dynamic lighting layer, or if it is a spell the player controls, they pull it out on the...

I also use the 'reveal only on token drop' option, so that players can't scan the entire space without actually moving their token there.

I use dynamic lighting on Roll20 and it makes the dungeon crawling aspect of the game and anything that involves sightlines much more fun. In my current game, all but one of the party have darkvision and one person having to carry a torch makes it more difficult for the party to be sneaky unless...

I'd just always felt the initiative was how fast people react to situations - so being able to take a reaction before you are actually able to react just feels funny. I do use the rule as written though as it works for the game and it's not a big enough disconnect for me to worry about it.

And six years later, the rule still doesn't sit quite right with me.

I was 8 years old and my friend and I were really into Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks. We heard that D&D was like that only better so we saved up together and got the red box. It was 1980 - I'm 48 now.

I also try and tie all characters strongly into an overarching campaign, but I'm also happy to let them die. Stories change, prophecies can be wrong, players can do dumb things. I have not had any TPKs, but once it came down to a single die roll.

Most of my campaigns have started in small towns that have soon been left behind. This time I started the campaign in the city of Sharn in the Eberron setting and (surprisingly to me) the entire campaign has not left the city walls so far and it has taken them to level 7. It's only now with the...

Are you getting books sent to NZ? I've been nervous of doing so in the current environment as I'm worried that the books will just never arrive. Interested to hear from any other Kiwis that have been buying D&D books.

I've been playing for 40 years now. Started with D&D and have played with many other systems, but always come back to D&D - especially now that I have a young family vying for my time and attention. Why D&D: It's fun. Not all systems are. We all know it inside out, so there is no pain of...

While this has been happening, a Class V: Automated Infiltration System (V.A.I.S.) has been hiding in the merchants wagon. This was all part of the plan to get Vais close to the bridge so that when trouble occured he would be ready to help. Vais is a Boromar operative and known by Norm and...

A battle ensues, but you are able to defeat the cockroach larvae and spawn without too much difficulty so you make your way further into the complex, destroying eggs and larvae as you go. You find yourself in a warm, damp stone chamber with a stone table rising in the middle. Around the outside...

And last weeks game: ou go with Dresk to the location he has found, behind a market in Khyber's Gate amongst piles of trash. It looks like an ant mount with a massive hole at the top, 7 feet across. You secure a rope and Dusty climbs down, carrying the rope with him. It's an easy climb with the...