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Are any of them carrying caltrops or ball bearings? If this is shaping up to be a hide/seek/disengage encounter, those might be worth using to slow the troll down.

This looks like fun. I'd love to play in a campaign in this setting! How did they handle the weight of Stone full plate armor? Lava Leap looks like it competes with Thunder Step. Bolt of Ush is like Teleport but without error and with Style! I'd take it. This is what you use when you're...

No, no, you've got it all wrong. Athas is the guy who picked up the cold sword in that game with the orcs (the one with the dwarfs and goblins and magic and stuff) and then became the lord of the undead on an iceberg after killing a bunch of elves. I really don't know any Warcraft plot after a...

Some of it may also be a question of definition. Castlevania games get listed as "Horror" even though, at least through the NES/SNES era, they were "Platform and kill monsters" where the monsters happened to be themed around "serves Dracula in a massive castle." Very little true horror, at...

I changed both GWM and SS to provide +2 to damage. They still end up better than a fighting style for the price thanks to the other benefits, so they are worthwhile without creating a major numerical imbalance.

This comment caused another thought to percolate up: Not everyone uses D&D Beyond or online encounter builders. Whatever replaces CR needs to be something that can be used without a computer/phone or calculator to be truly useful. The current way to use CR, per the DMG, is: 1. Look up your...

I think instead of just a number, it would be useful to include a role with it. The role names have probably been done to death since 4e so I probably do not need to give examples, although it would help if there is a melee/ranged tag to go with it. Monks are melee controller (stun, knockback)...

If the module expects them to run into a couple of enemies with 70hp and make it be a big battle, that's on the module writers. It sounds like they didn't write robust enough encounters to deal with 20th level characters. Meteor Swarm is a nice AOE against squishies, but any of the martials...

Yep! Try running an encounter with 3 different types of Spider, a common low-level beast foe. Giant wolf spider 330 Giant spider 328 Phase Spider 334 The NPC statblocks are sorely lacking. One of my to-dos is a 1-2 page chart covering generic stats for the different armor types (unarmored...

Please get rid of the box that has the minis in it. It's already crushed and will collapse unless it's top-loaded in your moving truck. Real boxes aren't super expensive at Lowe's/Home Depot/etc. and will survive being stacked 5-6 high much better. Be sure you pack boxes full to the lid and...

The defensive attack-redirect is pretty situational. It works best in small, crowded rooms with allies around. I ran an NPC enchanter through my Goblin Defense module, and it got no good uses out of the reaction because the goblins were spread out, shooting from cover, etc.

All Fighter.

Yeah, it's the invocations. +2.5 on failed skills is pretty meh, but is a bit of an edge. Teleport to the warlock or to the talisman wearer from anywhere on the same plane at 12th level lets you benefit from someone else teleporting. +d4 to a failed save is nice about 10% of the time. 10' push...

As I recall from my History of the French Revolution & Napoleon class 20 years ago, the average lower-class Frenchman in the 1780s spent 80% of his income on bread. I'm assuming this was urban wage-earners rather than farmers who grew their own food, but yes, that is indeed a subsistence-level...

Depending on your subclass, I would say level 14 is a pre-capstone. If you go Zealot barbarian, hit point damage no longer kills you. I had a player who played one from 3-17ish (dropped due to RL stuff) and had a blast. I do run a more high magic item availability campaign. He went with a...

Do characters that are not full casters also get the ability to develop epic strikes / epic abilities? Or are nice epic things only for those with access to 9th level spells?

"Are you sure you want to do that?"

Yeah... if you're the DM, you get to try every kind of character you want against real live intelligent opponents who will ruthlessly exploit your mistakes 4 brains vs. 1, and you also control what items you have and even what dragons do. Real ultimate power is yours!

This got me going down the Etsy rabbit hole, and I found some nice D&D monster tokens to add to my collection. Thank you!

Thanks! The post above about Twists is a great idea. #1: Chimera, CR 8 by itself. Easy encounter, and no ranged options except a breath weapon, and no CC. Easy fight. No threat to anyone except players who choose to stand next to it once it's grounded. Too easy. #2: Gorgon, CR5, giant CR...