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The Dungeon adventure "Chadranther's Bane" in issue #18 is based on this exact scenario. I included a similar one in the 5e 2024 campaign that I'm currently working on. Note that changing one's size that much creates some weird impacts due to the height-mass discrepancy, but I sort of hand-wave...

All of this. I recently wrapped up a campaign where the group had reached 17th level, even though I had enough content for another level or two. Combats took forever and it was really hard to create challenges for the group without gimping one or more of their abilities (there were six players...

According to the 2024 PHB (p. 221), a herbalism kit can be used to craft healer's kits. The Hermit background grants proficiency in the herbalism kit.

I would probably just say that the rogue automatically escapes notice unless the nearby creatures had the ability to perceive invisible objects. I wouldn't expect a cloud of mist to make noise or leave tracks, which are the main ways you can detect the presence of an invisible creature. If they...

My groups have five or six players and they are quite skilled with the game mechanics, so I'm used to having to upgrade monsters a bit already. I am currently running one 2024 game that I built using the 2014 Monster Manual and I haven't noticed any issues, but it's pretty low-level at the...

Modern VTTs make it super easy; I use Fantasy Grounds for my online games. For my in-person game, I use a fold-out wet-erase game board. I print tokens for the monsters on cardstock and draw the terrain with markers. First session my players used dice for their minis, but now almost all of them...

I try to present uses for using cash in my games, such as buying property, hiring retainers, and the like. I don't generally have magic stores per se, but usually the local temple will have a few potions or scrolls for sale, and those tend to scale easily to the party's level. 5e 2024...

If a rogue was crouched behind a flat, upright rock, and a creature moved to a spot where they were also behind the rock, with no possible cover bonus for the rogue, I would say that the rogue is no longer "something that isn't obvious" per the words of the Search action. Of course, it depends...

Saturday morning is my online 5e 2024 game, it will be session 18 in our current campaign. This one's set in an island city-state where the player characters are members of an adventuring guild trying to gain fame and fortune. We play in Fantasy Grounds. My in-person Sunday 5e 2014 game only...

I would have picked the first three options if I could; I selected 1 and 3. D&D has a certain nostalgia for me, as I started playing with the Basic Set in the early 1980s. I played a lot AD&D and a bit of 3e, then skipped 4e entirely (though I do have the core rulebooks). When I came back into...

I see line of sight as something that the DM has to adjudicate based on the particular circumstances, since there needs to be (for me, at least) a middle ground between "hiding characters can walk right past guards in the open" and "sentries have always-on 360 vision that instantly detects...

One of the first house rules I added for my 2024 game was that you can lose stealth/the Invisible condition if you leave cover and enter the line of sight of a creature able to perceive you. It's "can lose" since the circumstances can dictate what happens (i.e., the target's distracted, their...

I am giving each of my three groups the option to switch when we wrap up our current campaigns. One group has already made the switch. I am currently building a campaign using the new rules which may influence the decision.

I took the number and quote directly from the book, page 121. I will withhold judgment until I see published adventures from WotC that were specifically designed for the 2024 rules. I guess the first real test will be the new starter set, but I don't imagine this stuff will be too much of an...

I didn't see anything in the DMG to suggest that magic item crafting is an optional rule. Ultimately it's another one of those things that's up to the DM. An average party earning book-standard treasure based on the tables in the DMG should have no trouble manufacturing whatever they want...

1. If a character with a Passive Perception equal to or higher than the DC approached close enough to the door to notice any signs (e.g., scrape marks on the floor, a slight gap in the blocks of the wall), I would give them a hint. Otherwise they have to make an active check to find secret...

I was more worried about the armors that let you cast shield or other super-useful spells 6/day, but thanks for the heads-up on the rings of resistance and the vicious weapons. I would probably add a house rule limiting rings to 2/person, but it probably won't be an issue in my campaign, as I...

The grell and fire snake are in the book (the latter is classified as a type of salamander).

The adventure anthologies w/conversions of older content seem to be a popular choice; I imagine they're easier to make than creating something from scratch. I'm not complaining; I've used content from Ghosts of Saltmarsh and Yawning Portal in multiple campaigns. If I had to guess, I'd say that...

I would suspect that 95%+ of the time that orcs have appeared in a D&D game since the game was first released in 1974 it was in the role of villain that the player characters were supposed to fight and kill. Half-orcs have existed since the 1e PH; I don't remember the exact language from that...