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I accidently created the following topic [LMoP] New DM having issues with some Pregen backgrounds (spoilers) in the Older D&D Editions and OSR Gaming forum instead of the D&D 5th Edition one Can it please be moved?

Oh wow, thanks for pointing that out. I somehow made a shortcut to this part of the forum and thus created the topic here. Let's see if I can figure out how to ask the mods :)

I got some good advice on Reddit concerning the rogue. Might be helpful for others so I thought I'd share. http://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/2gda06/lmop_new_dm_having_issues_with_some_pregen/

No one? That makes me sad :(

I'm preparing to run LMoP for a group a newbies in a few weeks time. Just so you know, I'm completely new to DnD myself. I'm having some issues with the backgrounds of the pregen chars. It seems they were made after the adventure were written and don't fit in nicely everywhere. I mostly have...

I was wondering about that myself. Do you presume the PC's know everything about a monster and explain it to your players? (Sneaky Goblins = Disengage, Bugbear = extra damage, etc.) How do you handle this?

Interesting, that makes sense. Thanks :)

How is the damage dealing explained ingame? Do the words of the bards actually damage in/to the mind of the enemy with the use of magic?

Wow, nice post. Very helpful for a new DM like me :) I'm going to use this for sure.

But then your players know something is up when you make them roll? Shouldn't you always let them roll at least once to keep them guessing?

I'm new to DND and the Forgotten Realms and bought the book "Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms: A Dungeons & Dragons Supplement" I found it very interesting so far :) The FORGOTTEN REALMS is the most successful and widely known DUNGEONS & DRAGONS campaign setting ever...

Ok, so now I'm even more confused because I'm not sure if I was right or not. Can anyone ask Mearls so that I can use it correctly in my first game :D ?

Ok, I understand if you see it as an extra check. I was thinking more about the ambush situation in the Starter Set. My players see the dead horses. I ask them what they want to do. Most of them move forward or stay back, I use passive perception. One of them wants to move forward and look out...

So you can be worse at looking for something (get result of 1 to 9) than when you're not really paying attention / looking at all (minimum 10) How is this explained? Sorry if it's mentioned in your blog post, can't open that from here :)

Indeed, I understand that but let me rephrase another way. How can I get a group of new players going again after a possible TPK happens without losing momentum? In the event of a possible TPK during their first session I don't want to let them create new PC's for example. Perhaps I should have...

Out of curiosity, will you continue the story with them and how will you introduce the new PC's? Imagine that my new players get TPK'd in the cave, what is a way to keep the game running fast? They are kept alive and brought to Cragmaw Castle for interrogation after which they have to try to...

In the Starter Set Rulebook you can find it on page 15 "Travel" "Characters can walk about 24 miles in a day" No mention of fast or slow travel & difficult terrain here, to keep it simple I imagine. Moving one hex per day is a bit low. Looking at the top right of the map on page 5 of the "Lost...

I ordered a copy of "Ed Greenwood presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms" to learn more about the FR setting. On the first pages I came across something that made me think of this topic I noticed. Thought I'd share.

Thanks, very helpful :) One follow-up question. Could you explain further just to make sure that I'm understanding correctly? Did you for example perform a Deception roll and added a modifier. Then used this number as the one the PC had to beat with Insight?

Another nice play report :) I'm impressed by the quick improvisation with the doppelganger. Some questions if you don't mind. 1. How do you determine from which direction they approach the castle? You use the region map and see which part they would see first? For example if they are coming...