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I think the truly challenging encounters in 5e are based on numbers of monsters unless the monster has legendary actions in which case it can be frightening solo. Giants are the orcs of high level D&D. A single orc won't frighten a 3rd level party, but a group of 10 sure will. Giants fill a...

We play it similarly in my group. You declare you are moving stealthily, but you don't roll until you encounter something interesting. We use this logic for other things as well. For example, a warlock had the false life at will spell and although he declared he was casting it every time it...

I think it's the Patriots, but I hope I'm wrong. Falcons have the better offense, but New England is very good. Patriots defense is much better unless Atlanta plays like it has the past few weeks. Score 31-27 Patriots.

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My $0.02 is that Wood Elf is the more optimized pick (Wis, Dex and Speed), but Hill Dwarf give you Wis and Con with a hit point buff but comes with a speed hit. It's not a terrible choice and would be an interesting RP opportunity.

B1 is the answer to both.

Vech is my character in this game and this adventure was critical as it reinforced one of the key premises of Hjorimir's world. Not everything we encounter or experience will be scaled to be something the player characters will be able to defeat. He had stated this before the game, but I...

Yes, it led to the Descent in the Depths of the Earth, to Vault of the Drow and then to Queen of the Demonweb Pits

I've always though that the hey-day was going to be my generation (those born in 60s & 70s) and that it would die with us as well. I thought that computer games had killed table top games. I'm glad I was wrong and that the hobby is attracting younger gamers. I'm really happy from the social...

Against the Giants is the quintessential D&D adventure of my youth, so I'm happy to see another generation of gamers get the experience of this great adventure. Forge of Fury was my favorite of the 3e dungeons so happy to see that back as well.

For pure damage, I think it's Eldritch Blast for the force damage type. For effects, the other two to consider are Chill Touch which you mentioned and Ray of Frost for the movement reduction.

Mutli-class characters are pretty infrequent in the games I play in. I can think of 4 of the ~30 characters we'd created in the games I've played in that were multiclass. Only one of those was a dip (2war/8sor), most have been true 50/50 splits.

The big benefit I see is that you get away from attunement of multiple items. Normally, a fighter can't attune all those different types of weapons so the warlock would have an edge. I'm thinking 7th level restriction is appropriate just to keep other melee characters dipping just for this...

We've done this for quite some time when all the classes got the same xp chart. We generally level based on story goals. We do have one DM doing regular xp. I think I slightly prefer actual xp, but I don't worry about it one whit.

Pass, I play a paladin to be a hero that people admire, not fear. I see some value for interesting NPCs here, but not for player characters.

For D&D encounters, miniatures for tactical reasons. For FATE, ORE and other similar systems, Theater of the Mind.

Never mind, figured out the issue. No avatars for non-supporters.

So if the fighter kills the cleric, what is the rest of the party going to do? Why would they continue to associate with a character who killed their cleric. Even if he does it away from the rest of the party, I would think the rest of the party would investigate how the cleric died and D&D...

I'm definitely taking the three cantrips - Mage Hand, Mending, Light. My reasoning is that these are three of the most useful spells in day to day activities. Never having to worry about the dark would be incredible. The ability to grab small objects at a short distance would be very...

Haven't seen this issue at all at our table. We are on the verge of starting our 4th group and we've had 1 half-orc. So far, all races have been available in all games, so there's no biases. For us, it's been the feat from humans that has attracted the most interest. Human - 14...