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I DM published adventures. My reasons for this boil down to three things - legitimacy, DM interest, and time. Legitimacy - a published product will be tested (haha) and played by many people, so both myself and the players can feel more comfortable and 'part of something'. DM Interest - I like...

Read everthing in advance twice - as you never know where the players will go. I have mocked up a spreadsheet marking days showing weather/rainfall with each day split into three sections, and also randomly generating the encounters. I've included how many gallons a raincatcher can harvest in...

This is the DnD Forum. What you're referring to is Some Other Game :). (There are plenty with DR based armour).

As a DM, I can safely say that one of my firmest guiding tenets is: "Thou shalt not suffer a familiar (sent habitually into dangerous situations) to live. Least of all an owl". Just because they can disengage, doesn't mean they can't be IMPALED IN A HAIL OF CROSSBOW BOLTS the following turn.

For generic monsters I roll them. For named NPCs etc I take the suggested stat block figure Currently instead of rolling actual dice I'm using a spreadsheet with formulas that auto-generates the hitpoints for all my monsters. Cut and pasting the rows means I can 'roll up' a dozen monsters very...

Starting this tomorrow! Concerning navigation and the survival check to avoid getting lost - the DMG (p. 111) says the navigator gets advantage if they have access to an accurate map or can see the sun or stars. I plan to apply this to legs of the journey on the revealed part of the map, and...

Me too. I'm all at sea. OH I JUST GOT IT!!!

Sorry about the necro but I was searching for this exact issue. Thinking about this - 4mph is a ludicrously slow speed to fly. Yes, it's 'magic', but think about a brisk walk (4mph) - does anything seriously fly that slowly? The wind would blow you faster than that. I will probably just...

Questions on Charters of Exploration: 1) The NPC Guides in Port Nyanzaru. Presumably these guides are aware of the Flaming Fist demand for a Charter of Exploration. The book makes only one mention of this awareness or their attitude towards buying a charter (Qawasha). Would the other guides...

Yes, I see on looking again that the spell description says the duplicates shift position all the time to prevent giving away which one is real - that makes things more sensible

Hang on a minute - if Magic Missile is not affected by mirror image then the missiles must strike the 'true' target automatically, so anyone watching would then know which image to strike in future! Nah, I wouldn't run with that as a DM - I'd have the player choose which image(s) to strike and...

Did you guys have the Dragon Turtle appear between Port Nyanzaru and Fort Beluarian? I was going to avoid that if they go there, with the ship or canoes or whatever sticking close to the coast so they do not encounter it and have to pay out loads of gold they don't necessarily have yet. Aremag...

I did the same as this - Scarlet Moon Hall and then Curse of the Fire Witch (I also skipped the Long Road - a garbled and badly written side trek featuring more bandits? No thanks!). I got the players to Westbridge to meet some of the 'good' druids at Scarlet Moon hall who had fled there, and...

I like - no, love - your plan for the body of the Knight being a Knight of Samular who the earth cultists want to speak with. I'll steal that I think, in my PBF version (the face to face version already got way past there). So the knight can then be in Renwick's antechamber sarcophagus after...

I'm playing this in a PBF game. Thanks for the spoiler title thread.

As a player I'm interested in overcoming challenges and becoming increasingly more powerful so that I can attempt to overcome even greater challenges. As a DM I'm interested in seeing how the players deal with the challenges set in the scenario, and how they hopefully enjoy doing so. In both...

Thanks for the replies so far - it did occur to me I could let him try it for the drama, and then allow him to grab a ledge or overhang further down. I hardly ever cut people a break like that, and didn't want to set a precedent for super-heroics in future (suits some, but not my style of campaign).

No comment :) Well not really a spoiler that someone had Feather Fall - yes indeed!

The player - a lawyer by trade - insisted that the effect should occur for every attack throughout the one minute duration of the spell. As we all know, it affects the next (i.e. the first) attack that hits within that duration, and then the spell ends. It didn't even matter since the enemies...

Something that came up in my campaign over a year ago is still bugging me, maybe people here have some opinions. The situation: Thunderwave blasts a bad guy off the top of a tall tower. The bad guy uses his reaction to cast Feather Fall. As a reaction (after taking a hit reducing him to low...