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I can't recall if it was a house rule or an actual rule but I do remember that at our table in 4e you could never drop to 0 hp on a successful save. You'd drop to one instead. I don't think that woild be an unreasonable house rule if it applies equally to both pcs and npcs. I try to limit...

Maybe they did but couldn't figure out the riddle? For my daughter's game, they had to subdue the dragon. The kobolds and the party allied against the goblins but mid fight the kobolds turned on the party. The dragon (having already been defeated by the party once) escaped with the surviving...

A lot of good tips here, I think. https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/185-how-to-play-a-lich-like-a-dark-overlord

So far they travelled up the river via keel boats, stopped at camp righteous and explored the man and Crocodile shrine (and set off every trap), arrived at camp righteous, fought off waves of undead, attempted to arrest breakbone but killed him instead and are now heading off to find the shield...

I picture that scene in the movie Yellow Beard (I think it was) where the soldiers come into the tavern to find everyone dead but the blind guy who just says there was some sort of squabble...

I disagree. I use this solution...a player quietly handing another a die is not the same as a player interrupting another. But I also did list the aura solution...and the solution to just talk to the player. Or for the DM to maybe modify his or her approach to skill checks so only important...

If the problem is the cleric interrupting the flow of the game on every skill check then numerous solutions have been provided. My preferred method is just give the cleric player a brightly colored d4 and tell him to hand it to whatever player is currently under his guidance spell. When it...

Damaging cantrips that allow low/mid level parties to defeat the signature abilities, resistances or immunities of iconic monsters....like sacred flame shutting down vampire regeneration or acid splash vs trolls.

Agree. If you are reading a fantasy novel and every other paragraph the priest character is reciting some prayer it would break emmersion. If instead the author relates a few early instances that the chaplain is praying for his comrades and that it helps them overcome obstacles it would be...

So it will be less "immersion breaking" for the cleric to interrupt with "I cast guidance!" or "may the light of Wohoshivitz guide you!" everytime another player is declaring an action? That seems like it would be decidedly worse.

Do you do this with all PC abilities? When the monk spams flurry of blows do they have to act out an attack routine? If the bard uses bardic inspiration do they have to recite charge of the light brigade?

I would be inclined to agree. There are lots of very useful cantrips that get over used and overcome obstacles at no real cost...like damaging cantrips that get around monster defining abilities (firebolt or acid splash vs trolls for instance). Used to be that a lowlevel party had to spend a...

Lots of useful things get spammed in D&D. As a player I spam the message cantrip. The light spell gets spammed by my players. Attack rolls. Stealth. Searching. ELDRTICH BLAST... YMMV but after the player narrates a common ability 2 or 3 times everyone gets the point. With my message...

Last night my kids and I finished up Sunless Citadel (SPOILERS!)... The BBEG is a caster with a wand of entangle. Much to my amusement (and much to the annoyance of my kids), I had him cast entangle pretty much every other round. As soon as PCs would start to get free, he'd do it again...

Tomb of Annihilation Spoilers ahead! My group is 13th level and after mucking around the jungle they are finally beginning to realize they can just teleport to Omu. They have Salida with them. She knows they are there because of the Death Plague. She has told Ras Nsi about this and he is...

They ended up using detect thoughts on Breakbone and learned his plans so the Paladin ordered Ord and Perne to arrest him. "You have no right to judge me...". The paladin scored a crit on him then the warlock scored TWO crits with eldritch blast. So it got a little messy... With Breakbone...

My players (13th level) are arriving at Camp Vengeance in our next game (playing tomorrow). I'm going to try to really play up the Apocalypse Now feel of the place. They will arrive near nightfall. Along with the corpses from waves of undead attacks the PCs will find some non-undead natives...

Also consider one shots...an evil campaign is pretty tough to keep together but a one shot where you play monsters doing a "town or castle crawl" can be fun for a change of pace.

Wait...can't monks run up waterfalls?