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Darvus Andar, Paladin of Helerion Battle is joined. Doubt is gone. The needs of the moment are focus and discipline. Darvus unsheathes his falchion and moves with determination at the skeleton. Darvus takes a double move towards the skeleton, but with his armor, will come up short on...

There's a reason why the most celebrated Old School modules are the most deadly and merciless. A module with no chance of failure is perhaps enjoyed for a moment, then forgotten. The deadly ones are memorable. It may be that in future years, chapter 1 of HotDQ is remembered quite fondly.

"Easy mode" should have to do with system complexity, not coddling adventures. Just as much as I got sick to death of 3E's system complexity, I got sick of 4E's assumption of player success. Why are we even playing if there is zero risk of failure? Screw that, I'm done with it. PC's beware, and...

I love it! I really do. Monster stay blocks and presentation are the best I've ever seen. But there are a couple critical, crucial things missing that I really can't live without as a DM: Robust monster creation guidelines. It's got a few pages that give a couple tables for size and hit dice...

Seems to me like you did "old school dungeon crawl" right! B-) EDIT: I think 5E is turning me into a homicidal RBDM. I'm making "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor" my new theme song.

It's the "no offense" that really softens the insult here. Your opinion is subjective, and it's one I disagree with. I want (no, NEED) the spells to be in alphabetical order because as a DM I'm going to be looking at them more than players; who generally look at them when it's time to level or...

Throwing in an unbeatable encounter provides and better incentive than any other I have known as a player for self-advancement: the desire for revenge. It doesn't matter how small Cyanwrath figures into the written adventure; to the adventurers, dealing justice to him has become a raison d'etre.

I went a different tack with Cyanwrath. I played up his lawfulness and fair-play, by making him more a "slave to honor" than anything else. I like all my villains to have at least one admirable quality so they are less cartoonish and more 3-dimensional.

First attack didn't down her, second attack did, so that didn't factor in. And correct me if I'm wrong, but a second attack on a fallen enemy doesn't inflict damage, it just adds a failed save. Or am I mistaken?

The entire first chapter takes place in one night, from sun-down to sun-up, in a blazing, ransacked village. The kobolds retreat with their loot in the dawn.

I was not going to use the spear. The opponent chose a great sword as well, so I felt it was apropos for Cyanwrath to use his as well. Also, I wanted to emphasize the deadliness to raise the stakes in this campaign. In this, I feel the adventure was a great success.

Cyanwrath gets two attacks, and the second easily cleared the Instant Death threshold.

Alternate campaign title: "The Adventurer's Guild Rejects"

I've played in a couple sessions of a custom campaign, and I supposed from that experience that 5E was going to be another super-heroic game. Tonight I took a stab at running it, using HotDQ, Chapter 1: Greenest in Flames. Holy crap. In every fight, at least one person went down. In every...

Darvus Andar, Paladin of Helerion Darvus catches his breath against the crumbled stone wall. "Ok. Let's do this!" He pads around the corner, but in his haste trips over a stone. CLANG!!! rings out from the impact of his armor on the stone as he stumbles and slams into it. No time. He's...

This is largely mythical. The "Wild" West was not nearly as violent as we romanticize it to be. Carrying guns into town was routine and universal. Shooting in the streets, of course, would be very much illegal. Now, larger, more cosmopolitan cities like Dodge City and Wichita actually had...

Darvus Andar, Paladin of Helerion Darvus says, "I cannot in good conscience send the dwarf and the cleric in alone. I insist on an equal share of the danger in the initial charge."

I don't believe this is correct. Ryan Dancey was the father of the OGL, and TSR effectively ended existence when it was purchased.

Holy thread necro, Batman! I think the evidence is clear that levels 1 and 2 are definitely "apprentice" levels, and things can get pretty dicey for PC's (very analogous to 3E in numbers). Starting at level 3 yields 4E style power-level and hit-points, so hopefully all parties should be...

The "what am I paying them for" argument makes no sense to at all. The entire point of playing PnP over an MMO is the DIY imaginative aspect. Most of the game is from you and by you anyways. I mean, you don't ask them to make your characters, do you? Your NPC's? They don't do anything but...