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I would go with the one that you think others will now more. I have never seen Carl before, though I'm not into those books. I am watching the Alien show, but not sure how many at the party would know. Although it might just come across as something scarry and then be ok for Halloween...

Decanter of Endless Water; We managed to use this so many different ways over the years. We turned on the geyser mode to propel out rowboat, both to escape from chasing bad guys and to quickly cross a moat without being seen. We geysered the fire elemental endangering the town. We used it to...

I have not read all of the booklets and plots yet, but got the impression that the article was rather close to the books in that it just points to specific quests rather than more open.

Vampire Jelly Cube. I picture it reaching out to or drawing in a victim and biting them with a dissolving corpse head already in it. Might not be big on planning though.

Henchmen also go a long way to deter all these things or at least to make life more comfortable while doing it. A bit like in the movies where locals are carrying giant tents and things like tables and chairs for the rich explorers. Or at least like people climbing Mt Everest.

I have not noticed any set of tools in the new edition that gives advantage to CHA checks. I'm not sure I like advantage on things like opening locks since you are trained and have thieves' tools, but also not sure if a chainmail bikini should give advantage on Deception. Having moments of...

If he is a solo, I always liked having legendary powers that let you attack or do something between other players turns. Even like a beholder where at the start of each PC's turn, they roll to get hit with a ray.

Maybe casters should lose spells if they fail at casting them. Roll a 1 when attacking with fire bolt- gone until you relearn it. While we are at it, fail a save by 5 or more against fireball- all your gear and hair burns off leaving you in a loincloth. Fail a second time then lower your...

If you are looking to nerf big weapons or feats and such, I feel there are other ways to do this. You can just not use feats or houserule that certain weapons like polearms and great weapons cannot be used in 5ft hallways and things like that. Others pointed out the problems with breakage...

I guess is stands for Digitally Licensed Content... ? I had to look it up myself since it was not spelled out the first time it was used in the the thread. Google search did not event say what it actually is.

Generally the PCs just goes away if this happens. It would not be worth wasting time on making something up if a player did this to me. A better thing might be to make the PC a NPC or second character of a player. If you are petty, you make the PC, now NPC the fool that wanders into traps and...

A point on the number of players and scheduling. One idea is to make a set time that everyone knows about. Right now my group plays every Wednesday after the scout meeting. This means that my wife knows to not plan things on Wednesday nights. It has been the same for 20 years. All the...

I think that you need something you can sit down and start playing soon. You want to be rolling dice with something like a trail ambush in Lost Mines on your way to town. This means pregens over having to pick things to place on a card. I like the tokens and maps to help players visualize...

I read someplace, so I cannot take credit for it, that there is an art of illusion. The players will believe you if you do not show them behind the curtain so to speak. Don't tell them about the trap secret or the magic item they missed. If they run into a NPC and ask his name and you have...

Maybe the ranger can speak with rats to find them. The druid might poly into something with a good check like a dog.

I seem to recall an old Dragon Magazine article about this. Mostly about not interacting with the game and the DM will then react and make the game happen. The DM has this cool adventure planned and you say you cannot locate anything so you all want to just leave and go back to town. The DM...

What is the DC the DM is asking for? How many people are left in the party? Say you have have 4 other PCs and a DC of 15 to find, wouldn't 4 rolls even at -1 mean that the party would find some of them? You can always leave the dungeon and go to town to hire a few henchmen scouts. You...