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Hmm. Have you got hold of the DMG yet? The options in there on pages 271-273 look to very much favour martial prowess - marking things, cleaving through creatures, massive damage rolls when a creature takes half its hp in damage.

The rules in the DMG leave open lots of space for good storytelling, I think. There's the spontaneous creation of legendary weapons as Kid Charlemagne said. There are also special ingredients, tools or workshops. The characters might seek out a demigod-smith (Think Hephaestus) to help them...

Have you seen the Healing Surge rules in the DMG yet? They might provide the option you're looking for

I believe the intent is that you work out a level for the trap based on the level of the party. That would be average level, usually :-)

I think nitpicking this sort of test after the fact doesn't prove anything. Sure, with hindsight, things could always be different. But characters are not universally built from perfect optimisation guides (and even where those guides exist, there are multiple opinions on what constitutes...

But not in the core rules. How well did they work? My 3e groups stick to 3.0-core plus the splatbooks (Sword&Fist, Tome&Blood, etc)

5 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Dungeon Master's Guide I only meant to look up a few specific things... several hours later, I've read the whole book. It's engaging, it's useful but most of all just skimming the chapters I could see clear places where it would help me be a better DM. What...

Not just what they do, but if and how they affect the monster's stats for CR-calculation purposes when you apply them. That's pretty damn lovely, really

Going by the guidelines in the DMG, a 20th-level character does not gain any further levels. However, the DM may at their discretion hand out Epic Boons at appropriate moments to fit the story, with advice suggesting that offering one every 30,000xp or so above the 355,000 needed to get to level...

It's also worth remembering that the way crits work in 5e is part of balance. Right now, one of the scariest things you can hear is "The rogue gets a critical on you" and that's a part of the class design - Rogues do massive damage if things work out exactly right. (Changing criticals would...

I did a one-off game based on this spell. Roughly, it went: "You need to sneak into the crypt of $big_bad and defeat them. Unfortunately, they can only be killed with this dagger... and they have magical alarms attuned to it. You will need to get past the outer alarms, into the heart of the...

The goggles suggested in this thread should have some cost to their use - disadvantage on Wisdom(Perception) checks looks reasonable.

So the drow have agents on the surface, and thus they will have to have solved this problem. Here's a useful possibility that's a bit drowish: Drow ointment of darkness. Applied to the eyes, it alleviates all the effects of light sickness entirely for 60 minutes. It's a standard preparation...

I think you might be surprised (sorry). Well, sure, if they formed up and attacked en-masse then yes, a high level party would eviscerate them. However, if they attacked in small groups and attacked a few at a time without giving the high level party time to rest? Especially if they can do so...

Well, as I said, everyone has the right to play the game the way they think is best. But since you framed the above as advice to me, I will counter with my own view ;-) Talking would be a free action (if such things still existed), on your own turn. According to the rules of the game, you can...

Apparently, nothing is missing. Huzzah! WotC have done the impossible and placated everyone, even before the DMG is released!

In previous editions, that's true. In 5th edition? Take a party of 18th level characters. Put them in a lovely, sleepy, average little town or village somewhere on the main trade roads. Have most of the inhabitants mind controlled/whipped into a religious frenzy/actually be cultists/convinced...

5 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Monster Manual Great art, great rules. Really flexible, with enough fluff to give ideas.

5 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Player's Handbook Streamlined rules. Better rules. More flexible, more support for roleplaying and better use of option space than ever before. Diversity of art and content should set a new standard to be beaten.

So as standard, everyone has one thing they can do with a Reaction - they can use an opportunity attack if there is a trigger. They could also create a trigger of their own with the Ready action. I have been allowing a couple of extra things that my players can spend their reaction on...