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You don't even need sanctions from the gods themselves really (and in any case, I don't think this warrants it). If you were an ordained minister in a church and you started badmouthing god and making fun of prescribed rituals, they'd probably ask you to take some time off. In the most extreme...

For published adventures, I usually make myself a little diagram of the major linked events, minor linked events, whether they're optional or mandatory and any triggers, hooks or clues that lead to that event starting. That helps me figure out which bits of the adventure I want to keep, which...

For this campaign we started with the old Dragonspear playtest. 4 deaths, and it was only by stupendous luck that we missed the seemingly intentional TPK at the end. Half-orc paladin (lvl2) who held off the charging black dragon so the rest of us could escape. My dwarf tank (lvl4) who went...

On the scale of evil where a 1 is stealing candy from a baby and 10 is, I dunno, making parents decide which of the two will kill themselves to save said baby, then killing the baby in front of them, then letting the other parent live? I don't think decapitating evil enemies and messing around...

Brilliant, thanks guys. On the Mary Sue thing, I particularly like this from the FR wiki: "Elminster also confronted the Overgod, Lord Ao, over his instigation of the Time of Troubles..." lol

I kinda figured he was like Hercules or Achilles - everyone knows about Troy and the 12 Tasks of Hercules, even if they don't know the detail of the story. What adventures do people know about where Elminster is the central figure? Or is he the fantasy equivalent of Kim Kardashian?

Everyone in the realms has heard of Elminster and his legendary adventures but what I'm wondering is: what are those legendary adventures? What would the common man on the street know about Elminster? (I haven't read any of those books by the way so I don't know what those adventures were).

Wait... waterdeep from neverwinter? Thats like a weeks ride! Lazy bastards! lol In my old realms campaign, I made the creation of permanent teleportation circles illegal without the permission of the local lord. No one wanted foreign enemies being able to drop agents in behind all their...

This is just a natural thing for people to do. If you don't want it as part of the game, ask the players to agree not to do it during the game. The rules for that particular game are what they are. There's no point in debating it during the game because they ain't changing! But after the...

So insanely easy to use they changed it!

The earlier editions weren't so obsessed with consistency, standardisation and balance. There were some crazy spells, crazy items. I remember one guy who used a Daerns Instant Fortress as a sneak attack weapon - it caused 1-100 damage in a big aoe on a command word.

I don't mind people taking the initiative, except when they try to use it in an oracular way. I had a PC go to a royal shindig, roll a dice and say "I roll 20 on my Intuition, who are my enemies?" When I said he would need a truly spectacular roll to tell that just by glancing at the room, he...

I know. Being a good judge of character fits under wisdom for me, not intelligence. +1 for the Mongo reference, lol.

I once played a 5 wis fighter. He didn't have the common sense of a gnat. "Hey this guy...what'd you say your name was again... Loki? Yeah this Loki guy really seems on the level guys, totally great and trustworthy."

For game stuff while in-session, sure people use their phones but meeting etiquette applies. If you have to take a call, leave the room so you don't disturb the session. Replying to the occasional text/tweet/fb or whatever is fine. Obsessive texting, tweeting, instagraming, FBing or playing...

It seems a bit mean OP, although I quite like the dishonest blacksmith npc actually. Not everybody in the game world should automatically look out for the PCs interests, and not everybody should have a red name over their heads to signify that. Theres the potential for some fun RP there. Also...

If he's a compulsive liar, it's not so much a question of what he lies about, since he lies about everything.. Basically whenever someone asks him a question, he makes something up.

I wondered what your angle was. :) Certainly makes sense for legendary resistance.

Whoa! You're outta control Bodhi! You gotta go down! :D

Pffft. In my next game, I'm banning the game and watching sports instead. I don't even need to ban the game to watch sports, but I roll hardcore. On the topic, overall dpr output for some classes will plummet so keep that in mind for encounters. Casters will really shine. You'll have less...