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My son has been playing D&D with me since he was 6. His favorite part is the miniatures. When we're not playing D&D, he loves to take all of the miniatures and dungeon times and create epic battles using 50+ miniatures. Perhaps that's a draw for your daughter as well. There are some simpler...

Despite an initiative board, I still run into a fair number of my players not being ready on their turn. So, I've moved to just going clockwise. At the start of each encounter, we all roll initiative, and whoever rolls highest (it's been me each of the 3 times I've done this) goes first and...

I agree that the traps were too obvious. I played it essentially as written, but got around that in two ways. First, when they opened the doors, they saw a semi-fresh dead body of an adventurer on the floor and Splug (who had been with them, but ran away two encounters previous) was looting...

I'll be giving small divine boons at the end of _Keep on the Shadowfell_ in liu of some magic items. In my game, Sir Keegan was a paladin of Bahumut and he bestowed his sword, his Sunblade of Bahamut, upon the Dragonborn Fighter to help in completion of a quest to stop the opening of the rift...

In the KotS game that I'm currently running, the PCs released Splug from the jail cell in return for him telling them what he knows and helping out. Splug's motivation is only greed without any threat to his life. So, that deal started OK, but then he wasn't properly motivated due to the...

When I ran this portion of KotS just two weeks back, the first hobgoblin battle was a good one, as the spiders arrived late to the party just as they were finishing the hobgoblins (despite their high AC), and the spiders immediately KOed two PCs. But of course the PCs eventually prevailed. The...

You no longer need to pass the Herald exam to get DM Rewards. There's someplace on the WotC web site that says that, but as "proof", my son didn't take the exam, isn't a Herald, yet still got the Reward. When I first looked at the Herald exam, I was shocked that anyone was able to pass it as...

We had a 2-week break from our normal campaign so I ran the second half of Bloodsand Arena with the pregens, and it was really good. The arena battle was probably the best battle we've ever had (the line of sight issues due to the webs really added to it), and the skill challenges examining the...

I haven't and wouldn't disallow anything, unless it were larger than medium-sized. My table is more of a fun game and the "reality" of different races adventuring together isn't an issue. Someone even played a customized race/class (built with Monster Builder) one time, but they decided that...

While this Tomb of Horrors is for level 9, I saw another Tomb of Horrors on Amazon.com that comes out on 20 July. It is described as "This D&D adventure is designed for characters of 10th–22nd level and includes a full-color, double-sided battle map designed for use with D&D Miniatures...

Anyone who posts here is clearly an XP whore, which I would certainly never encourage nor participate in.

I just picked up the Free RPG Day Bloodsand Arena and it's a nice give-away and will certainly get people excited for Dark Sun, especially in conjunction with Encounters. It has a nice double-sided large poster with 3 maps (that have good reuse possibilities), two decent mini-adventures (though...

I asked WotC Customer support and got an answer. I was hoping for an actual rule stating that they do, but without a rule stating that that they don't, they do.

My 8-year-old son plays with me as DM (42) and others ranging from a mature 13-year-old, a bunch of 20 somethings, and a 35-year-old. He plays a Dragonborn Fighter, so the dumb brute thing is his character, but we've had to set him straight about not just killing everything. I even designed an...

If the person who is currently DMing doesn't have a PC, then that person could play the PC of whoever is the temporary DM for each session. That is, I think your current group has 4 players (each with a PC) and a DM with no PC. So, when one of the players becomes the new DM, the current DM can...

I found that on page 55 of the PHB, "Stance: A stance power lasts until the end of the encounter, for 5 minutes, or until you use another stance power." I didn't know that bit about only one stance, but it makes sense. Thanks!

Could you point out that five-minute daily rule? I did find this text on page 278 of PHB which isn't specific to dailies: "Unless a description says otherwise, you can sustain a power with a sustained duration for as long as 5 minutes. However, you can't rest while sustaining a power..." So...

I found the part on regeneration. On page 293 of the PHB is, "If your current hit point total is 0 or lower, you do not regain hit points through regeneration." I missed it since it was inside the bullet text. It still doesn't give a good clarification on Boundless Endurance, though...

I couldn't find the rule for this, but it seems that there should be one somewhere. Basically, do any conditions persist while/after dying (but not dead)? Here's some examples that came up today during a large battle. The first example is that the character is taking ongoing fire or poison...

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