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So, under 2014 rules, you make the judgment that your PC thinks the ally running past him is an enemy (in order to justify the opportunity attack), and you declare that your PC is casting haste on this "enemy" with the intention of ending it so as to stun them, but then your PC presumably...

That covers the specific case of haste, but that's not the only buffing spell you might want to cast on an ally. There's cure wounds, protection from evil and good, enlarge/reduce, calm emotions, and probably a bunch more that I'm not thinking of at the moment.

If you like "Tomb of Tiberesh," I also recommend "Cat and Mouse," from the same setting. It's pretty clearly based on The Maltese Falcon.

Why would you want to buff a hostile creature?

One other thing I added to the Vanthampur estate was a large crate in the duke's study. When the PCs opened it, they found it was full of advance copies of her soon-to-be-published autobiography. I then showed them the cover (made by Reddit user banana-milk-top and found in this post): As I...

See these threads for more recommendations: https://www.enworld.org/threads/best-third-party-adventures.704785/ https://www.enworld.org/threads/could-you-recommend-third-party-long-adventures-or-adventure-paths-for-d-d-or-pathfinder.704080/ One adventure that I haven't seen mentioned yet is...

Personally (and I fully expect to be flamed severely chastized for this), I think it's a mistake to put this sort of consideration ahead of what makes most sense for the fiction.

In case you couldn't tell, I was being tongue in cheek. It does make me feel kind of left out of the lovefest, but that's my problem.

They really are leaning heavy into the cartoon. Too bad for them that I have zero nostalgia for it--the only episode I've ever seen is this brilliant reworking:

Things I've Changed: Chapter 1 My players are currently in the High Hall of Elturel in chapter 2. I thought I'd make a post about things I've changed. Some of these were my own idea and some I got from suggestions I found online or in supplements. Most of my PCs are native to Baldur's Gate and...

We're back to the "multiple definitions of railroad" problem, which always comes up when that term enters discussion. Some people use it to mean a linear campaign where one event leads to another and if the players try to wander "over there" and explore what's off the edge of the map, they miss...

Yeah, well. I'm already on record as being a heretic about other things that I'm assured are "integral to 5E design," so I guess we'll just have to add this to the list.

I can honestly say that the damage numbers are so far down on my list of things I enjoy about D&D as to be virtually nonexistent.

Damn, you mean I've been having ersatz fun all this time? I've gotta learn to get better at telling the real stuff from the forgeries. :(

A lot of people seem to love it, but the people who do love it seem to be the ones looking to replicate an OSR-style "simple, gritty, and deadly" type game. That may or may not be what the OP is looking for.

Is there a reason you can't just use the 2014 rules?

Are you saying Gygaxian Purple Prose is perforce the antithesis of weal?

The module tells the DM to "Roll dice behind the screen and frown.” That is meant to imply to the players that the monster succeeded on some kind of secret saving throw, suggesting that it might fail on a future attempt (even with the same roll from the players). Still, if the module writers...

In that video, it's blatantly obvious to everyone in the room, including the kid, that the people in charge are interfering. The advice in the module is supposed to make it look like a legit miss. What I'm hearing from you is that it is the fact that the advice expects the DM to hide the truth...