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I ended up picking a halfling once or twice for one-shots when playing at the FLGS where some people use critical fail rules. Crit fails are a terrible houserule, and halflings are immune to them.

Are they planning to fix the stuff in D&D Beyond that hasn't worked for years, like making basic spells or class features like Mage Armor or Barbarian Rage actually show up on character sheets when they are in effect? Edit: Just realized this is a "WOTC update" not a "DND Beyond" update. My...

Before Tasha's. Tasha's has some good stuff in it, but it also has a lot of stinkers.

And yet most reviews of WOTC adventures seem to include "This needs work" or "This only makes sense if the party does X" or "This could be a lot better."

Pointing out that horses drastically improve strategic and tactical mobility is... well, historically accurate. It makes me want to make them more useful.

He just needs to take a long rest.

I'm currently running a high level game (Against the Idol of the Sun, campaign log is posted here and GITP). It has been my experience both with that, and with a one-shot with 14th level characters, that most PCs at high level can get hit by multiple fireballs and prismatic sprays and...

They keep getting HP at a fixed amount after 10. By 20 with 16 con they have 10+3 (1st level) 13 6*9+3*9 (2-10) 81 3*10 (11-20) 124 The plan is also for this to be higher magic in terms of item availability (Baldur's Gate II) so the fighters will probably have a couple of resistances each...

Almost all save-boosting abilities belong to martials and half-casters (Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Artificer). Diviner and War Wizard are the only full-casters I can think of who have ways to boost their saves on demand. At level 20: Con 14, Average hp using a d6 to 10, +1/level after that: 72 Con...

I'm cutting HD growth after level 10 in my next game. Too many things end up as non-threats when you have 230 hit points.

They made the right choice.

That is a great post. 10/10 well organized. Please link the follow-up whenever it goes up as well.

(I have no connection to the authors) I saw this on the DM's Guild. Production values look good, and it's certainly amusing. Apparently it made silver status (in the 3 digit order count) within 48 hours. https://www.dmsguild.com/product/432420/Honkonomicon I like it and want to get it, but I...

Do we really need yet another romance subplot cluttering up the story? IMO most movies would be better without it. This one was.

Monsters I have used from the OP list: Black Pudding - I put it in Castle Dracula (Castlevania) in a stream in the forest. Gelatinous Cube - showed up in a couple of low level modules. Mimic - In the Mage Tower module on DM's Guild. Player took off his helmet and put his ear next to the door to...

That was the other players at the table piling on with made-up lore because Edgin's character rolled a natural 1 on his knowledge check. Looking at the movie from a meta perspective like that excuses almost all of the nitpicks and it's kinda fun.

The campaign is posted for sale on the DM's Guild! 296 pages total, NOT including the campaign log. The preview packet includes a lot, including the campaign log up to Session 40. I'll update it with the full log once we're done, which should be around Session 43. Session 41: 4/1/2023 The...

It's definitely an ensemble piece based around a group going on an adventure. A movie like this lives or dies on the characters, and they executed successfully. General Thoughts SO many "D&D player crazy" plans. There were several moments where I went "Ok, that's the DM escalating the...

Basically, yes.

Yeah, that's one NPC though. I'm trying to get a chart to build most of them out for combat purposes. Creating PC-like statblocks with a few class features is a bit slower than monsters... although casters are worst of course.