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If you can think of unarmored defense being mostly active, you can think of armor and shields the same way too. Armor doesn't encase perfectly, it has joints, weak points, and exposed areas. An armor-wearer would probably use that to their advantage, dodging, turning, so that close attacks...

I tend to use the standard array, especially when I'm not sure where I'll be playing the character. Unless there's house rules involved, every DM should be okay with letting in a standard array character. When I run games, I tend to prefer point buy. One group I was running for didn't like...

It's straining farther from "D&D", but you can steal elements from other more narrative systems, in that you ask *them* what happens. I don't know what system it's from, but I liked the idea of 4 granularities in rolling: 1. Roll really high, the player narrates what happens. 2. Roll...

If you're using an interactive map with a tactical grid, you may want to play fast and loose with the rules on it. Have PC and NPC/monster avatars, but only as a very rough guide as to who's generally where. Instead of having everybody count out squares, just say when you move, you can get...

So far the only older adventures I've modified to run in 5e have been Eberron. I started with The Forgotten Forge from the back of the 3.5 setting book, then proceeded directly to Shadows of the Last War. I was prepping to run the next one, Whispers of the Vampire's Blade, when Real Life...

So far the only older adventures I've modified to run in 5e have been Eberron. I started with The Forgotten Forge from the back of the 3.5 setting book, then proceeded directly to Shadows of the Last War. I was prepping to run the next one, Whispers of the Vampire's Blade, when Real Life...

A "better than nothing" option is the low-resolution super-pixely simple maps over at Fraternity of Shadows. Upon cursory inspection it looks like the keys match up, and they have a "player map" version without any traps or secret doors shown. At one point in time I counted the "dpi" of each...

I believe from what I've seen it's best if the PCs are not native to the area in which it takes place. Chris Perkins mentioned during the first Dice, Camera, Action livestream (could contain more info than you want) that they thought about having some player options for native characters, but...

I haven't read the whole book yet, but there's a small table near the beginning that shows the average level range of the various areas. I plan to use that to wing milestone levels. As in, once they've finished doing what's in the level 4 range and want to move on to the level 5 range, I'll...

One feature I always wished DTRPG had (and I've since given up hope they'd implement) is, when searching for adventures, I could specify a level range. From my limited frustrated experience, a lot of adventure modules bury that information in inconsistent natural language in the description, if...

Most of what needs to be said has been said already, but I do want to point out one thing. The 5e ruleset was designed as exceptions-based. So, all the rules you need to know about bonus actions are what you quoted, exactly--until you come upon an exception. Basic rule is you don't get a bonus...

Cool beans! I started my players on Death House already. Without access to the whole book, I used the Burgomaster's letters from I6 to draw them in. Glad to see that's what they went for here. I'm sure I can count on others to transcribe the handouts into something more readable, my eyes aren't...

There was a front page article about this very topic last week! Worth reading. http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?3250-Self-Publishing-What-s-An-Artist-Worth Short answer: No, you don't just grab stuff off of Google Image Search. ;) Quick start, look at the DM's Guild Creator Resource...

Others have replied with advising caution in how you approach artists and possibly rephrase your original request. I don't think I can do better myself, so I'll just agree with what's been said, and know you didn't mean anything mean by it. On to resources! "What is DM's Guild?" has a section...

I played in a 3e game where the DM handed out xp after every downed monster. Not after every fight, after every monster. I remember one of us leveled in the middle of fighting a pack of kobolds. Whole game stopped while that player rolled hp, chose new spells, spent skill points, etc. That felt...

The adventure is more "linked from" the Dragon+ than "included in". It's just a normal PDF and you don't need the Dragon+ viewer to access it. It took me a few minutes of browsing through Dragon+ to find it (including having to *read* things! ;) ) but Quickleaf has the direct link above. It...

For those who want to skip straight to the adventure, the direct link is http://media.wizards.com/2016/downloads/DND/Curse%20of%20Strahd%20Introductory%20Adventure.pdf - It's a regular page sized PDF, not requiring a tablet or the Dragon+ web viewer to read. It seems to be missing some...

Well, if you don't have more dice than you can ever use (yet), there's a good investment. Amazon has a few sellers of "pound of dice" (with at least 1 matching 7-piece set for around $20. Then of course with lots of dice you'll want a cool dice bag or three. Iirc you were under 21? So obtaining...

1. Not usually. 3. I don't care so much about sound effects, music, or a lot of post-production (though trimming for time or unrelated content can make it better). Most of what I need to be able to listen to one is a lot of pre-production setup. Preferably separate mics for each player running...

I'm definitely trying to aim for the latter. My words to them more specifically were that what I know of glancing the original I6, and the 3.5 Expedition, was that they'll probably be trying to seek safe haven in a town that's run ragged from a variety of monster attacks. Folks barricaded in a...