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Dungeon Masters Guide and Monsters Manual DIALS for (i) Gritty (Lower Starting Stats, Hit Point modification*, Slower Rests, HD usage, H-Kit Dependency, Touch Attacks*** etc) (ii) High Level (Encounter Design, Monster Modification, Higher Skill use, Setting Challenges, Terrain/Environmental...

@Maxperson audited the thread and it was found wanting. 😜

The very fantasy settings in D&D and other RPGs reflect a different morality than modern 21st century US/Western World. You cannot have deities (including evil ones) serving as known patrons of peoples and monsters (including supernatural creatures) with magic etc and think that moralities...

The fun I remember were the antics of my players and their characters. The fun thing I did as DM, I feel, was provide the platform week-after-week for us to play.

Yes, we had fun overall, it is the reason why we are still playing, but I can recognise that mistakes were indeed made by me, where I denied player agency in service of my own interest.

People often times look back in disdain or regret because perhaps in 30-40 years they have learned how do GM better, that mistakes were made back then, even while they were having fun with friends. Something will always be lost when you change your playstyle. The question is, is it better for...

Your question to @Hussar was not phrased if someone else would find things offensive. That is a shifting of goal posts.

Oh that action figure wants me to use displacer beasts again - brings the creature to life! :love:

I'm not @Hussar But generally speaking for my table, if a PC were to engage in an immoral activity within the game - it would have in-game consequences. It doesn't make its way into the real world and there is not concern for it occuring in the real world. The two most recent immoral acts...

I understand this thinking (and @pemerton made this point in one of the other threads and I do not feel he was wrong given his playstyle) but if we use the label in this way for all these games/adventures do we require further terminology, do you think, for more restrictive railroads either by...

So, I'm not sure how familiar you are with the AP but essentially each giant lord had a conch which the PCs needed only one of to proceed. They visited the obese hill giant chieftain who was trying to climb the giant hierarchy by consuming as much food as she could believing if she could...

Our current experience reflects the campaign to be sandbox, but the Adventure Paths that are merged within the campaign, which has other player-driven story tangents as well, follow a predominant linear design, but not entirely as it depends on the AP. Are there incidents of railroad, for sure...

5e is a very different beast to 1e 15th level rogue 8d6 sneak attack 15th level paladin 5d8 smite 15th level cleric sacred flame cantrip 3d8 If you're of the Knowledge or Light domains this become 3d8 + Wis Mod (Potent Spellcasting) If you're of the Life, Nature, Tempest, Trickery or War...

Oh I was not implying anything of the sort. My comment was merely to engage how much empathy does @clearstream expect players to have for 2 door wardens who are there to fulfil a cinematic moment - whether they had 1 hit point or 50 hit points, the empathy should not be dependent on the number...

Ah I missed that, I was referring to your example with Cronut the Barbarian (posts #22009 and #22010)

Fair enough. For me, an ogre is an ogre is an ogre - some have skill sets that are different and they have been labelled differently for identification reasons as they have different purposes within the game. Same way in RL we have a plumber, a hair stylist and a librarian - these are the same...

I have to wonder how that scenario would play out in 5e using the rules (no homebrew either on the side of the PCs or the monsters).

I'm of the opinion minions can be used for both. In @Umbran's example they serve primarily if not solely as narrative set pieces. In my next session's battle they'll be part of a mass combat encounter, and identified as minions, with less focus on their narrative role, but rather serve as...

A PC cannot 1-shot an Ogre easily. The minion with the DT can be 1-shotted. The point being that the attack needs to do a minimum amount of damage so there has to be some effort required by the PC. And it comes down to taste - so if I remove the DR completely you can imagine a wizard extending...

Thank you will check it out. Then this part of our conversation is over - but do remember you responded to me. I have been pretty transparent in this thread in how I would mechanically handle minions in 5e. My appreciation of the 4e minion concept or anything else from any edition doesn't mean...