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Roleplay I'll provide players with a small list of common curses or sayings in their native language and encourage them to make more. Adds to ambiance and uniqueness of playing something different than others. I keep my own cheat sheet of those behind the screen for adding flavor. We'll...

Self-taught DM from the original Red Box. A few curious friends stumbled with me through some basic adventures. There's many "firsts" I can recall vividly, but oddly enough, my first DMing session with a group isn't one of those. Go figure. I must've stunk.

Prior to 3rd edition, you couldn't. If you wanted to add new spells when you went up a level, you had to find scrolls or other spellbooks.

That's our philosophy. While real life intervenes, as it did this week with a family illness, we always expect when game-day rolls around, we're a go.

I never tracked, but we're pretty consistent with averaging 3x a month, roughly 4 hours of actual gameplay each. That'd roughly translate to 72 sessions to get to 15th level. With the right group, I'm of the same mindset, though it depends on the campaign. I highly enjoyed Curse of Strahd with...

Low level were the formative years, so intentionally I slowed leveling. My players were relatively (2 years or less) new to D&D, and going slower seemed to help adjust to rules, knowing your spells, finding stuff in a book, deciding what character sheet you liked, and working on developing a...

1. Technically, the DM secretly decides monster actions first and may drop a hint if enemy intent is obvious or a PC uses an appropriate item or skill (e.g. one goblin is eyeing the lever near the door). In real play, there's not a lot of table talk and everything happens simultaneously. If you...

Conan the Destroyer 5 LotR 13 - 2 = 11 Willow 8 + 1 = 9 Krull 4 I got nothing to explain my choices. All will do.

Conan the Barbarian 9 - 2 = 7 Conan the Destroyer 14 LotR 17 Willow 11 + 1 = 12 Krull 13 Tough calls as they'd all be great choices, but I'm still a fan of the "halfling" wizard as it screams 5E. Conan Barbarian had a few ancillary characters with the most classic backstory of "BBEG killed my...

Oh, I know. Our bard player uses it quite often, and he comes up with some simply amazing insults, even when using it on trees. After 22 months of playing the bard to 15th level and the almost-end of our campaign, he still comes up with them on the spot. It's a great spell because it encourages...

Conan the Barbarian 18 - 2 = 16 Conan the Destroyer 19 LotR 26 Willow 11 + 1 = 12 Krull 15

Conan the Barbarian 26 Conan the Destroyer 32 LotR 33 Willow 18 + 1 = 19 Krull 23 Princess Bride 19 - 2 = 17 Adjusted Conan Barb to reflect @Shiroiken vote.

Your PC speaks a dead language and the other PCs hired him in a prior adventure. You decided to stay on. (Dark Sun setting influence) The PCs rescued him. Because his prior "pack" (kreen are lost without a pack to rely upon) is gone, he gravitates to the PCs and would defend them with his life...

Conan the Barbarian 34 Conan the Destroyer 34 LotR 32 Willow 22 + 1 = 23 Krull 25 Princess Bride 24 - 2 = 22 Princess Bride is one of my favorite books and movies, but as a D&D-esque film, you've got 3 fighters (albeit with excellent backstories) each off doing their own thing, a female lead...

Conan the Barbarian 29 Conan the Destroyer 29 LotR 32 Clash of the Titans (1981) 15 - 2 = 13 Willow 32 + 1 = 33 Krull 28 Princess Bride 31 Clash is really a one-man show, not a party effort. And who could forget this (BTW Willow is carrying his arcane focus...if that doesn't scream 5E D&D...)

Conan the Barbarian 31 Conan the Destroyer 30 LotR 34 Clash of the Titans (1981) 18 Willow 33 + 1 = 34 Dragonslayer 11 - 2 = 9 Krull 26 Princess Bride 28 What's wrong with Val's hair in Willow?

DMing (15th level Kingmaker, last session this weekend of 2-year campaign that started 2020) Human Barbarian (wild magic) Human Wizard (divination) Human Paladin (revenge) Human Bard (lore) Human Druid (shepherd)

Conan the Barbarian 33 Conan the Destroyer 34 LotR 33 Harryhausen Sinbad (1970s) 14 Clash of the Titans (1981) 23 Willow 35 + 1 = 36 Beastmaster 7 Dragonslayer 19 - 2 = 17 Krull 30 Princess Bride 31