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You've got access to a lot of Dungeon Masters, game designers, and hordes of players here. Go for it. Best thing, no downvotes.

There might be no secret. They may just get along with your personality, regardless of whether your map is a single trail with impassable sides or your bad guy is a work of art. Personally, I think DMs need to be disabused of the idea there's a "right" way to a good game, or if you want to call...

Alternately, don't make the adult giants a foe that can be defeated by conventional means. They might grunt in annoyance at physical attacks, have skulls too thick for mental magic to penetrate, and treat them like noisy children. If the party wants something to play with, maybe they carry some...

Thanks, got some solid ideas and rolling with 'em. I usually try to be a week ahead of my players, not a day!

So short notice, as I procrastinated at the end of a year-long Dragonlance campaign (wherein we ran the original modules converted, with Level Up for characters), the players made it to the finale. And, while I have the "as written" part, it's not the climatic ultra-conflict boss battle that I...

Made me think of the Knights of the Dinner Table comic, gamer spoof. All potions have expiration dates (often written on the bottle). If an expired potion is used, it triggers a roll similar to the mixing potions table. Poor characters could also buy expired potions. It was meant to be silly at...

Brainstorm: On a natural 20 critical hit, roll a d20. If you roll a 1, the sword instead explodes into a 10d6 fireball centered on the wielder. The wielder is immune to this damage, but the sword is destroyed and will reform randomly on some other plane in 1 year. It's 1 in 400, but since...

In a long-term celtic-themed Kingmaker campaign, I had a calendar with yearly holidays, giving folks notice in advance of the big ones such as Samhain (precursor to Halloween) where druids proclaimed new laws and the ruler of the lands (a gamer) was expected to do some ceremonies. They came to...

...in our last Dragonlance (5E converted) session, the party brought a Dragon Orb into the heart of Sanction, epicenter for the Dark Queen's armies...and when things were looking really bad, almost used it, then chickened out (because they know the orbs are insanely crazy to control, having used...

1. Curse of Strahd, DM. Needed some heavy modification for Strahd's personality (based off novels including I, Strahd) so that the diary and understanding his motivations become the key to overcoming him + mods for Ireena and some other major players + adding a 4th piece to the tarot equation to...

Not an educator, but I recall my old town and the gaming store cooperating with a private school that rewarded its middle-school students with a weekend D&D session, if they met particular goals. Always packed.

AD&D 2E Rogue's Gallery, yep (not the 1E version). Hole punched to easily be added to your monster manual giant binder.

Savage Tides (3E, Dungeon Magazine, campaign) starts with the story arc of a noble lady (and her wayward brother). If you weren't invested in that arc from Session 0, you really don't have a reason to invest in the early adventures. And, with a little touch up, it's a riveting, fantastic story...

In honor of my current Dragonlance (original modules) campaign and Elmore. Here we see Gilthanis trying to convince the new hawt girl he met that he personally carved out this dragon peak for her.

Brass Dragon 7 (+) Bronze Dragon 7 Copper Dragon 8 Gold Dragon 7 - 2 = 5 Silver Dragon 9 + 1 = 10

Brass Dragon 13 Bronze Dragon 10 Copper Dragon 9 - 2 = 7 Gold Dragon 11 Silver Dragon 14 + 1 = 15 The classics battling it out, nice. Copper for your thoughts?

Brass Dragon 15 Bronze Dragon 14 Copper Dragon 13 Gold Dragon 10 Silver Dragon 13 + 1 = 14 Steel Dragon 13 - 2 = 11

Brass Dragon 16 Bronze Dragon 17 Cobalt Dragon 9 Copper Dragon 14 Gold Dragon 8 Mercury Dragon 1 -2 = 0 Silver Dragon 17 + 1 = 18 Steel Dragon 18

Brass Dragon 16 Bronze Dragon 16 Cobalt Dragon 13 - 2 = 11 Copper Dragon 18 Gold Dragon 12 Mercury Dragon 9 Silver Dragon 19 + 1 = 20 Steel Dragon 18