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What's very interesting to me is that I see a lot of cross contamination between LU and WOIN. Would love to eventually see a whole adventure path, maybe set in ellissar, converted to WOIN. There was also a similar "porting" for Zeitgeist, but only the first adventure came out unfortunately.

I was rereading the rules and found an interesting passage in the equipment section regarding resistances and vulnerabilities: Given that there is a vulnerability effect in the Hex magic skill, it seems that one single application of it would completely remove a monster's SOAK. This combined...

I think in this case the descriptions are very clear: Unlikely Wield: When you engage in two weapon fighting, you can use the third weapon to make an additional weapon attack. Two Weapon Fighting: you can use your bonus action to attack with a different dual-wielding melee weapon that you are...

Cool! Are all adventures new? I think I have all numbers of EONS but I don't seem to find them.

I'd really love to see some O.L.D. sessions. @Morrus I'm thinking the launch of the next WOIN starter set would be the perfect occasion to do some live streams of an O.L.D campaign, just as the other live streams shown at enlive. WOIN is really a fantastic system for me, and I thin it would...

Seems cool! Some of the ship's attribute are the same as those used in N.E.W. Will there be a backport to WOIN or some cross-contamination between the two?

I cannot give you a general guideline, but in a sticky post about encounter building guidelines @Morrus specifies that it is expected that both parts fully employ tactics, including LUCK dice. Maybe you can decide that goons cannot spend the LUCK dice if the encounter should be an easy one, or...

It's not me it's clearly written in A5E rules... The point is, that was barely an encounter, due to the surprise round and the 3 crits in a row from the PCs side. If the dragon even got one entire turn, the group would have probably been toast

I was referring to "Epic". That's what I was referring to as a tag. The table you linked refers to "Epic" monsters, which are unofficial both in o5e and LU. On this we agree, but we disagree on the final result. I checked it. It seems a very convoluted way to get a TPK (as the link itself...

That's a different topic altogether. FWIW, it's leaps and bounds better than what WotC published, both in terms of guidelines and as monsters. It seems WotC may backtrack a bit on their own approach with the next edition of D&D, where something they call "iconic" is strictly stronger than other...

They redid the entire CR computation and monsters precisely because o5e's guidelines and monsters were completely messed up... Elite monsters are not a thing neither in o5e nor LU, so it's hard to judge the value of that table. That said, there's no way a reasonably statted normal monster of CR...

I think you're either homebrewing or using rules from previous editions. There's no coup the grace or helpless condition in 5e or in LU. The closest I can find is unconscious. The combat is swingy for two related reasons: 1) the resolution mechanic is handled by a single dice roll, which...

I think the CR system does not, and can not, consider also the surprise round factor and everything else your players may do before the combat starts for both parts. Your group was aided not just by the suprise rounds, but by the 3 crits in a row. The swinginess is not in the CR, it's in the...

What's this table? It seems wrong (or at least not compliant with LU) in many aspects. Also, normally 4 level 9 PCs have very little chance against a CR20 monster, barring extreme luck, surprise rounds and excellent preparation

I interpreted it as Accuracy Bonus, the level 2 Ranger class feature

I would do that myself, but that's why I quoted the RAW.

I agree with what you said overall, but at the same time it's clearly stated that Silence grants immunity to thunder damage. The emerald dragon's breath is thunder damage, not psychic or psychic/thunder, so RAW it's correct. But based on the description of its breath weapon, more than on its...

By the numbers, if we ignore the fact that the CR of the dragon is pretty much twice the average PC level, this was a medium to hard difficulty encounter (1/3 < 17/36 < 1/2). The rule about not using monsters with CR higher than 1.5x the average PC level is mostly about swinginess of combat to...

@dave2008 summed it up quite nicely. Also: several magic items recharge at dawn. Would you change that too? On top of that: If I wanted a grittier campaign (let's leave realism entirely out of the equation with D&D) I may use 3E's rules for recovering HP (1/level/night, 2 if there's someone...