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Here's the next installment in my game. My game is currently in winter, so I've used a snowstorm to force the party to stay in one place so that I can sew some seeds and give the adventure a bit more depth. I also decided that they needed a bit of advice about how to tackle to various areas. I...

Yep, we had a character that rolled 18 strength, so of course it had to be a fighter. So the score became 18/65. Ah, the mythical 18/00 that apparently so many had. Not us. Anyhow, he also had a dex of 6 which meant we had a powerful but super-clumsy dwarf fighter. He was a bull in a china...

This was our standard way of doing it back in 1st edition. It led to some very memorable characters.

Nice write up. The entrance to the black earth temple is blimmin hard. My players had to make a frantic retreat as well.

I totally disagree. I recommend starting at first to get a good simple start while you are learning the basics. Sure your characters might die, but that is part of the fun.

Hey Rebbeman - excellent first post. Have some xp.

Here is the latest installment of my adventure log: https://deathgrind.obsidianportal.com/posts/return-to-the-village-of-black-pit The adventure has gone way off the beaten track in this installment, but I had a few things I wanted to set up: Reveal that villages are starting to get hit with...

My players stop reading now. My biggest problem with this Adventure Path has been the lack of motivation for the baddies - release the elemental princes and be evil just doesn't do it for me. I think I've found a hook that fits for my campaign and it may be useful for someone else. Right from...

What general dissatisfaction? Have you got any non-anecdotal evidence to back that up? I think the concentration rules are a good thing and I've seen nothing to make me think I am in a minority.

Here's my latest installment, in which the party are completely overwhelmed and narrowly escape with their lives. It really was very close to a TPK, but no-one actually died. That's the kind of game I love. At one point the party was split into 3 different groups, all of them in strife. Very...

I'd think thematically about the goals of each character, and how a dragonmark might help enhance their abilities towards that end. Because it is house ruled you don't need to worry too much about balance anyway. I actually don't like the ideas of dragonmarks giving you spells. It just doesn't...

I haven't gotten that far yet. They have just made their way back up to the surface of the Sacred Stone Monastery, coming up two separate stairwells (they got separated in the running battle). Helenrae and the rest of the cultists are waiting for one group up the top. While the other are just...

I'm playing an Eberron game at the moment. None of the players had taken on a race or class that were Ebberon, but one has a dragonmark. We worked out a homebrew dragon mark (as the UA version was awful) based on House Deneith and the characters background and motivation. It works well for our...

Just finished a new session with my group now. Like you it was in the sacred stone monastery. Unlike you, my group went downstairs, and then further downstairs, and they went without a plan. The party got separated from each other, everyone got blocked off from the exits and they were completely...

Not all of us live near a city. It would involve a lot of driving for me to participate and is prohibitive. At the same time, there is plenty of material out there without resorting to piracy (Arrrrr). The only reason I feel the need to pirate (Arrrrr) is so that I can have an e-version of the...

I'm playing the Starter Set, aka The Lost Mines of Phandelver with my 7, 5 and 3 year old. They absolutely love it. I am basically running the dungeon complexes only, with some narration to join them up. I'm not expecting them to have good roleplaying at this stage, but 12 year olds should...

I'm currently running Ebberon for Princes of the Apocalypse. The fluff is absolutely fine, and I'm happy to wing it with NPC dragonmark abilities, Warforged etc as they don't need to be particularly balanced. But Eberron does lack conversion for PC races, classes and dragonmarks. I found the...

Yeh, I've been without games for a few weeks as well now. A funeral, school performances and work have meant my evenings are taken. I'm getting antsy. I need to roll some dice.

And I'm in a different camp. I found the factions and the plot hooks really bad and they just felt tacked on to me. I recommend taking some time with the players for them to design their characters and their backgrounds, and then make some adjustments to hook them in based on what they decide...