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Aw! Why ruin the surprise? Those critters are a FAVOURITE of mine to introduce to new players. Experienced players run from them screaming and generally dread them more than character death (PC death, after all, is only temporary, but gear, that's *important*), but newbies? They react to...

So, I'm just gonna say this, because this sort of answer comes up a lot - I get that this is the case with a lot of players. Just a few hours ago, I ran an encounter that was supposed to be a hard combat, that turned more into an extended skill challenge that the players blitzed through. PCs...

So, what do you think the ratio of encounters should be in a site-based adventure? Assume, for the sake of simplicity, that every keyed area belongs to one of four categories: 1. Social - interact with NPCs, etc. 2. Combat - Kill stuff. 3. Exploration - find clues, solve puzzles...

Converting modules is SUPER easy. I think, in fact, that this is the easiest edition I've ever been able to do it with, bar none. The only game that it seemed easier for me, personally, was Savage Worlds.... and that's saying something. I've converted a Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG adventure...

Oh, and if you ever come across a red creature with a propeller on its tail and a bunch of antennae, it's friendly. Make sure you send the most heavily armoured fighter up front to check this thing out. Especially if he's proud of his armour. I won't give you any spoilers, but I GUARANTEE...

So many questions, young padawan! Regarding Wizards and Staves: You can find magical staves, but they're pretty hard to get a hold of, especially at level 3. And when you do, they rarely make you a better fighter or anything like that. Nope, they usually just let you toss out fireballs or...

Hm. What I'd do, and this is just spitballing. First, I'd figure out what skills are involved in the challenge, and what success on those skills represents. So, for example, nature check is scouting land, etc. Doing that, I'd break each of those "events" into a little event that can be...

Please go bladelock. It's an interesting class, and seems like it'd be fun to play. Bear in mind that, until 3rd level, you won't have any proficiency with a blade, so you'll be stuck with a dagger.

Yeah, the fighter in the party I GM for is definitely not the damage type either. A Tiefling Battlemaster with the Protection combat style and his sole feat being the Inspiring One. He grants the party Temp HP each short rest, and uses his maneuvers to help out allies and grant temp HP when...

I've played those games. Drool aside, it was actually pretty fun! Rules are good and all. But when they become the be-all and end-all of an RPG, I'd rather drop the "RP", and just play a "G". Seriously, I did that all day today - a nice, competitive board game. I won, because I understood...

This. I get so frustrated with "Well, at level 19 *snort* according to my calculations, class x is woefully underprepared compared to class y, and is therefore no fun. *snort*" Seriously. Who cares? It's not a competitive game. It's not a game like, say, twilight imperium, where knowing...

I few that instantly spring to mind: Abishai Aranea Bodaks Caratyid Columns Cooshees Feral Gargun Living Wall Mercury Dragons Mohrgs Nagpa Necrophidius Ragomuffyn Shocking Lizards Sons of Kyuss Squealers Tasloi Xvarts Plus some creatures whose names I can't remember. The black pearl keeping...

So.... stupid people will be stupid people. D&D just happens to be the vector this time. If you can point at something and say that nobody's ever thought or done something stupid in relation to that thing, you've got one on me.

You know, if you item juggled once or twice, as the GM, I'd be okay with it. But if it was something you were doing every fight, I'd ask you to stop. If you insisted, well, I'd ask you to rethink your choices, or find another table. Item juggling is one of those super mechanical abuses that...

Me, I don't use too many tools outside of the game books. No apps, no special gimmicks. I wish I could get rid of the minis and battlemats, but my players would kill me (but we run gridless often enough). My only tool is my GM binder, which is filled with homebrewed random encounter charts...

I think of an alternative. Some effects in the game give you a bonus or a penalty to the roll. These exist so that even if advantage or disadvantage come into play, they still exist. For example, Bless gives you a bonus to attack. It's still there even if you're surrounded by zombies and all...

So, an update: The PCs will research this ferret in the next spat of downtime. Until then, it's "just" a mechanical ferret a la find familiar... just, all steampunk-ey and whatnot. I'm going to go with a variant on the "fill the ferret up with water from the pool" approach, making reginald...

Sure. And it's all good to say "nope, not for me!" I'll probably do the same - I'm not a huge fan of psionics, either. That being said, I find this looks a lot better than 3e, where psionics really were just a modified version of spellcasting that I HATED. Having the psion do its own thing...

Just seems a bit negative, is all. Especially on a D&D site, where everyone is always discussing new stuff, house rules, etc. Not to mention, this is a great way to release new game supplies to fans - "here, it's not finished yet, help us make it perfect before we try and sell it to you". So...

Mostly, a healer's kit is a tool that is usable in combat, and its primary function in the RPG is to be used in combat or related to combat. Because of this, it's in a whole different park than artisan's tools, which are what designers call "Ribbons" (ie, they're rarely going to be...