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I wish you had updated it, so to speak, right from the start. I bought the map, brought it to the local print shop, printed out a large version and had it laminated. The whole process cost me about $50. But I was excited to have this beautiful map of the Sword Coast to use in my games. Since...

The PHB and other supplements just give you options. You don't have to allow all those options in the world you create and run. Or you could. It depends on your world. I run the Forgotten realms circa 1372 DR, so Dragonborn and Tieflings, and a lot of the races from Volo's Guide to Monsters, do...

Twice this week this has come up. Once in a discussion on this board, and once in a discussion with one of my players. Do you use passive insight in your game? I don't, and I'll give my reasons below, but I am genuinely curious to hear other opinions and arguments for and against. I was fairly...

I don't think 5e deserved the blame. There was nothing keeping the designers from making the traps Insta-kill or asst least very high damage. 5e can be very deadly at high levels if the DM sets things up right and runs the monsters well. Sent from my VS990 using Tapatalk

That's the difficult thing about making a character tracker that works for everybody: Some things are more important to some DMs than to others. :)

I wanted to make my own character tracker sheet to put onto my own custom DM screen. I wanted something that tracked passive perception as well as languages (there are a lot of different languages in my campaign), as well as the god(s) the character worships (because that's also important to my...

My players are welcome to ask to roll insight whenever they want, but when they do, they tell me their modifier and I roll for them behind the screen. I usually want my players to do as much rolling themselves as they can, but this is one case where I think there's a lot of benefit to doing a...

I thought I saw it in there, in TFtYP. Maybe I am just projecting?

That's why I specified "not in my world." I remember my great-grandparents had keyholes in their doors you could look through. But anyway, I explain to my players early on that in my world there are no keyholes you can look through, and they stop asking that question. Sent from my VS990 using...

Did you forget to have demons appear whenever they teleported? I didn't see you mention that. Sent from my VS990 using Tapatalk

Usually when I get asked this question it is because they want to peer through the keyhole to see what's on the other side. I explain that that's not how keyholes really work in the real world, at least not in my world, and they usually get the idea and don't ask again.

It's what I am looking for, so I imagine it's what "some" people are looking for. I don't want a whole adventure path. I would prefer shorter modules, where I can place them within my own larger campaign anywhere I want. If you can give me 5 or 7 of them in one hardcover book, I'm all for it...

I've come to really appreciate Tyler Jacobson's art. He's done many of the covers for the 5th edition books. On the cover of Tales from the Yawning Portal, Durnan is holding a coin, and it appears to be hot or something, as smoke is drifting up from it. Is this a little tie-in to something in...

This is what I was missing. Thank you all for your clarification and suggestions. I like the hourglass idea. Sent from my VS990 using Tapatalk

I'm not sure if you are agreeing with my proposed change or not, but to be clear, the characters are not limited to 10 actions the way the trap is currently written in TFtYP. It takes 10 minutes for the room to be filled with sand. That's 10 rounds per minute, so that's 100 rounds, hence, 100...

Still way too much time. Can you imagine spending 100 rounds on any trap in 5th edition? (That would be like the entire play session.) Can you imagine any group that would not be able to find a way out of the box before 100 rounds pass? They'd have to decide to take a nap in the box for awhile...

If the DM is being that obtuse, well ... time to find a new DM. ;)

If they go back to the original Undermountain Level 1 instead of the 4th ed Undermountain, I'm all for it. And I hope they will. In 4th edition's "Halls of Undermountain" they cut out whole sections of the dungeon (and some of the best sections, too). In the meantime, I will do my own...

-SPOILERS ahead- I just got my copy of TFtYP the other day, and so far it's great. I even like the Tomb of Horrors, even if it is less dangerous than the original. Now, Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan holds a special place in my heart. My favorite trap from the dungeon is the sandbox trap. But...

Be prepared for your 2nd- and 3rd-level players to constantly be saying, "Oh, last night before the long rest I used all my spell slots to cast elixirs, and now I hand them out to my party members." Also, your second point is valid, except in campaigns where healing potions (and/or gold) are...