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It depends on what you mean by "this works". When you use Shillelagh, you're using a bonus action to buff your weapon. When you take the attack action with your buffed weapon, you use different stats for attack & damage. Martial arts grants you a bonus action when you take the attack action...

Real answer: don't vamp people if you don't want to deal with them getting upset about being vamped. You're the DM, you can control it.

...nevermind. Misread the quote.

Whatever it is, it shouldn't be strictly superior to defensive style. Also, any bonuses must apply to the attack, otherwise they'd be all this debate about quantum grip scenarios.

I'm describing my weekly playthrough here, but we're still in Death House, which IMO is a great adventure (if a little cliché). I've read a little bit into the rest of the book, and a lot of the details seem fun. I like that no one is a straight-up good guy, and that even Strahd's origin story...

Despite being discouraged by the admins, you have to be a singularly sadistic DM to put a first-level character through the second half of Death House. Awarding XP by the numbers is all well and good as long as the math works out in the PCs' favor. Don't be that guy that sours a new player on...

/facepalm This is EXACTLY why milestone XP is vitally important to this adventure.

Might want to go re-read those spell entries a little closer.

The con save is DC20 and it's absurd. There's no fun in having Lost Woods-like mists if they neuter you before you have a chance to discover that you're stuck. I just ignore the mists exhaustion and rely on their deus-ex-machina features.

Some notes for session one: Curse of Strahd adventure hooks suck. SUUUUUCK. Here's my approach: * Have each character describe their day-to-day life in Faerûn * Once done, improvise a time when that character or the group of characters is alone * The characters are surrounded by missed and...

I started running Death House yesterday, and figured this would be a good opportunity to catalog some of the fun, challenges and issues while running. You can follow along via our Adventure Log, and I'll add posts here for interested DMs that want to compare notes. FOR SERIOUS, EVERYTHING...

The adventure hooks are the weakest part of CoS, in my opinion. Heres what I would do: * Have each character describe their day-to-day life in Faerûn * Once done, improvise a time when that character or the group of characters is alone * The characters are surrounded by missed and dumped in...

I was trying to find the actual rules on modifying encounters and I was unable to.

Yeah, I've been critical of a lot of stuff WotC does, but their approach to gender and sexuality has been pretty awesome. Even their art has come a long way from the old Boris Vallejo days.

Guys, stop saying this. It's false. The Basic Rules and the SRD have different subsets of the rules.

If Mi-Go, Kender and locations not on Faerun are all "setting neutral" then I'm hard-pressed to come up with anything that isn't setting-neutral.

BRB, editting The Wikipedia article on Bikeshedding to mention this thread as an example.

(emphasis mine) Looks like this should be different rather than additional.

I have several questions about the DMs Guide: How do Resurrection Madness and Vampirism interact? If a PC is turned into a Vampire during a session, and they somehow stay one for more than 24 hours, before taking the ... uh ... non-wish method of resurrecting, what happens? How do you run for...

Given that the Duelist fighting style gives you more damage and doesn't penalize AC, I don't see why someone would take this. Here's my thoughts from another thread: