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I thought the dire flail was worse, but the double axe definitely was up there.

As others have said, you can use the tables in the DMG as inspiration. Last game I ran the players found a +1 adamantine warhammer. Looking at the tables, I decided it was a dwarf-forged weapon designed to fight golems. It gave off a low ringing hum (like a tuning fork) whenever a construct was...

I haven't really encountered this as a player or a DM. Players want to try to keep their allies up because spending your turn rolling death saves while you're unconscious sucks. As a DM I also inform my players that enemies will behave according to their nature. That means sometimes striking a...

Necrotic Damage doesn't reduce max HP by default, though most effects that do reduce max HP do necrotic damage.

A 10-minute hourglass sounds like a perfect tool for this encounter. Not only do have the "hurry up aspect" of a live countdown timer, but the bottom of the hourglass filling with sand would be a perfect visual for how much the room has filled up. (In this case you wouldn't run things in combat...

We haven't encountered the problem yet in a game I'm playing in where we're 9th level (well, there's been a couple issues of "I can't attune anything else" but other party members still had "slots" open.) My 5E conversion of Rise of the Runelords required the PCs to make some tough choices near...

I've always treated the weights listed in the PHB as "encumbrance weight", taking into account how awkward the item is to carry as well as any necessary scabbards/sheathes/straps/etc for actually transporting the item when not in use.

Well, Critical Role uses rolled stats, so it's not quite the same as point-buy, though they do get to pick which stat goes where. (Amusingly, the highest Intelligence in the party (20) belongs to the Fighter. Though his whole schtick is he's an inventor.) The barbarian player (he of the 6 Int)...

I would definitely consider sleep a different state than unconscious. A noise/touch/whatever can rouse a sleeping person, whereas someone who is actually unconscious won't necessarily respond to such stimuli.

Well, if they're being mauled by a wolf they're already taking disadvantage for having an enemy within 5' (unless they have crossbow expert, of course.)

We're doing something similar in a game I'm playing in right now, though they start at 5 minutes, then 20, then an hour. Seems to work okay.

You know, I didn't even realize that crossbows couldn't be shot from prone without disadvantage by default. As for being "knocked prone" I don't see a whole lot of difference. I guess maybe, if you wanted to be strict, you could force the character to burn 5' of movement to "roll into a firing...

I think it needs to be looked at in the term of scenarios, rather than individual creatures. Did the PCs encounter the cultist and stop the threat he originally posed? Then they get full XP for defeating him. The fact that he's taken up root somewhere else and started a new plot is irrelevant to...

If your DM allows feats, you could take Mobile for +10 to your movement. As others have suggested, you could carry throwing axes and make a ranged attack in the first round. Another option would be to Ready an attack vs. someone approaching you.

I've definitely given some thought to giving the ranger bonus spells. Their spells known is far too limited. I just haven't settled on an appropriate list yet.

Kind of off-topic, but I generally reward PCs XP for enemies they force to flee if it resolves the situation. "Runs to the next room to get help?" No XP. "Runs off into the hills, never to be seen again?" XP awarded. It seems unnecessarily punitive to make them hunt down and slay every single...

I will say, if you're concerned about PCs being able to come back from the dead too easy while running ToH just limit their supply of diamonds (assuming you're running a one-shot and not using it as part of an ongoing campaign.) No diamonds, no Revivify, Raise Dead, etc.

With that name I was expecting something that granted a bonus while using clubs and the ability to "call shot" a critical once per long rest. :P

I ran a 2nd Ed Dragonlance campaign that included not 1 but 2 minotaurs in the party. They laughed at pitiful humans and their 18/00 Strengths. That was the game where I realized I was way too lenient as a DM. (We also had a drow, despite them not existing on Krynn, with a thoroughly broken...

I remember that 18/00 was +3/+6. That's the only one that really mattered, right? :)