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That's both sad and hilarious. Bossman needs to maintain his hierarchy by any means, and if that means paying someone else to boost his level in a game his subordinates play, then so be it!

I can't help with the numbers side of things, but Roman-era slavery did support some of your thoughts. Slaves were valuable, and killing them was viewed as wasteful; but so too was letting them run away, with facial tattoos used to identify those inclined to flight, saying something like...

Oh wow, that's actually a lot more generous than I was thinking. Especially good for me is the news that it's 12 characters in each of three campaigns; as I have 15 players across two weekly and one monthly game, I was worried that I'd hit a snag!

The idea that new adventures will launch with DMsGuild support already present is interesting. So we might be able to buy Tomb of Annihilation and straight away find some extra side quests on the Guild. I wouldn't say that it falls into the Day One DLC trap so hated by the computer game...

The current subclass options lack... flavour. I mean, they're good and obvious choices - Druid as Caster and Druid as Bearmonster - but they are not particularly evocative. It's a bit like the Fighter - the current subclasses are good but flavourless, meaning that future subclasses struggle to...

That's how I do it. I'd be sad if they went for Drow your boat.

Hah! Sadly, Drow are hidden behind the paywall for the moment, so I wasn't able to hear their interpretation on it. I'm not sure that I'm ready to have that particular assumption attacked!

Yeah, I noticed that. I suspect that my French player will wince at that one. A fair few of these are not the way I pronounced things - I went for Dwer-gar, and for Otyugh I just sort of made a farting sound for three seconds and ended with 'uh'. On the one hand, I'm a strong independent DM and...

I like it. It makes it a lot easier to hand out XP for treasure and events by reducing the numbers to a consistent 100; at the moment I'd first need to look up the EXP needed to level table, and try to decide what percentage of that I wanted to give out, whereas this streamlines that process...

I'd be interested in the "Thug" subclass concept, the chap who lurks and cracks people in the head with a club. However, it is admittedly a bit obscure as to how you'd handle that, since that is basically just a fighter with the Criminal background. Something akin to the Barbarian perhaps, where...

TL;DR: Replacing Iymrith with Klauth for a mixed RoT/SKT campaign? So last night I had my first session of Rise of Tiamat, after we ended Hoard of the Dragon Queen about a month early for various reasons. The first Council of Waterdeep was a monster of a session to prepare for: I must have...

You could get quite brutal and have the plot develop so that a major city (Silverymoon or Mithral Hall) gets attacked and destroyed by the Barbarians because of the characters. Then when the Good character's player comments, you can just quietly change the G on his sheet to N; after all, it was...

Uhm, over on Power Score he had a post about one of the Wizard livestream games, and it is apparently showcasing the start of the module. From what he said (I didn't read too closely) it starts with the party sailing into the hub city. In other words, it isn't a particularly set-in-stone...

At this point, you've spent more time worrying about these two guards than I spent reading that entire chapter :)

I believe that the person most responsible for pushing the "5e is failing" narrative has been banned, so that's probably why we haven't seen that viewpoint for a while, but do have memories of it being put forth. Sent from my iPad using EN World

Hey all, So today on Twitter, Chris Perkins was asked about a good non-Barovian Ravenloft module. He replied with The Created, a funky sounding option: "The Created, an adventure by Bruce Nesmith in which the characters are transformed into marionettes and trapped in a toy store. #WOTCstaff"...

Perhaps it's never come up, since they all got eaten by sharks? :D Probably also it's not that hard to leave Maelstrom, via conch or other tool, it's just hard to enter it. My main problem with Maelstrom is that it feels kind of small for the capital of the Giant civilisation, but then nobody...

Not being a fan of the franchise, I suppose they might have Transformers pegged as "Robots hiding amongst mankind to protect it", basically superheroes with tires. Do the films match that? I've only seen the first one, but it seemed to, more or less. As for D&D, I guess that they'll intrepret...

Yeah, I think that all those elements mentioned are fine. Seems like you wanted a discussion on a broad point, but picked a poor set of examples to open it with :)

You find it implausible that people find it easier to add up smaller numbers than larger ones? I can tell you that I myself do. I'm a Latinist, not a Scientist, so math isn't my strong suit. I'm reasonably sure that this exact reason was confirmed somewhere - that they sought to keep the game's...