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Agreed. I entered expecting to laugh. I left thinking this would be the perfect thing to show someone who wants to understand what D&D is. Sent from my [device_name] using EN World mobile app

You're welcome. Wish I could try it. My players don't want to give up their PCs...we played LMoP, then at level 5 started PotA and skipped the whole starting chapter. We finished that at level 11. Then they wanted to play Ravenloft...that took them to 13 and now we are two sessions into...

I think what bugs me about it is it is revealed way too early in most of these. SKT seems least guilty. But even that has 5th level characters knowing they are dealing with earthshaking events. I said with HotDQ that it should have excluded the whole 1st level party encountering an Adult Blue...

Just like last time this was discussed...it's going to fall to the DM to rule and be consistent. Sage Advice gave us what the intention is for the rules (an "attack" requires and attack roll so MI works on spells that require an attack roll). But if your group wants to say that the definition...

And you know the color of someone's skin color on an internet forum...how? Are you assuming it just because they hold a certain opinion? Stereotype much? Certain words have been used in order to establish superiority of one group over another. I won't list them here but it is easy to think...

You were probably looking at a player map. Sent from my [device_name] using EN World mobile app

I am thinking that rather than make Ras Nsi a yuan ti anathema I'm going to change the hydra to be an anathema. It will be the vessel intended to hold Dendar the Night Serpent and when Ras Nsi learns of the Soulmonger, he will see that as a way to channel Dendar into his creation. He will want...

This is probably what will happen in practice but I want to let them figure out how to skip ahead using all the resources they have available so that they can trigger the attention of all the NPCs that are around. Tonight they finished futzing around Port Nyanzaru. They spent a total of 3 days...

I'm not at all clear what in those two paragraphs you think disagree with anything you said or are untrue. Neither paragraph mentions any specific rules and both are intended to speak from a narrative sense. Sent from my [device_name] using EN World mobile app

I will confess I do this. I try to make a conscious effort not to and I remind my players frequently that they can just narrate what they do and I'll find the rules that make it happen. But some players enjoy playing through the rules as an interface to the game. It's like their...

Sounds like you have a plan. I agree...I wouldn't worry about rewards for good backstory...I've aleays found that if a player wants to have a detailed backstory then they will do it. If they don't then they won't and why should I care as the DM? As DM, in a homebrew campaign I will use PC...

Oh my gosh. At first I thought you literally meant to use the stat block FOR Volo. I just looked and was very confused. I forgot about the NPCs in VGTM.

I don't know their first action until it is their turn. The PCs opened the door. The people whose passive perception allowed them sense the witches got to go normally ad the wizard won init. I described what they saw: "You heard voices chanting but now see nothing" (and obviously they sensed...

And to detemine if you hear the cat purring in its sleep? Some sort of check would be called for. Sent from my [device_name] using EN World mobile app

It is just as reasonable that they don't hear anything. You have 5 heavily armed and armored folks waiting on one side of an oak iron bound door while the rogue clinks around with his lock picking tools. Hence the check. Those that do hear it certainly would not automatically know the number...

I think thats what the stealth vs passive perception check answers. Someone mentioned above that invisibility is not automatic stealth. That is correct...but it sure helps. It seems to me that it should allow the possibility of remaining undetected. Did the PCs hear them cast a spell through...

Example... Character A is chasing B down a street and B ducks into an ally using his full movement. A can't see B. There is sufficient noise from the crowd on the street and A's own running feet that A can't hear B. From the point A lost sight of B A has no idea what B did after that (though...

Cast unknowns. For PCs start out with a selection from the Basic Rules...Fighter, Wizard, Rogue, Cleric and Paladin or Ranger. Human, Elf, Dwarf, Halfling, Half-Elf. But as time goes by, replace them with more exotic choices. Character turn-over is a must. Death, swapping PCs in and out...

Typically we DMs call the first time a group gets together "Session 0". It is called that because no actually game play is planned for that game session. It is used to do some house keeping like: Describe the basics of the setting, general thrust of the campaign and set guidelines and...

A netflix/amazon prime show where a group of kids or young adults are playing D&D. Most of the on screen time is on the PCs in the game world but we get to see the kids playing and narrating the action and maybr learn a little about their lives too. That would totally justify the "Guardians of...