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My experience fighting a lot of Dragons from Tyranny of Dragons is they're pretty weak by themselves, even with legendary actions and lair actions. There's one encounter that involved two Dragons and a bunch of lower level NPCs which was quite hard, we had one PC drop (mine) but made it through...

I ran a Balor fight against a group of 15th level PCs. It was basically a test from a high level NPC champion to see how tough they were - they were asking to ally with him. It was summoned down into an arena to fight them to the death. Fire rained down from the sky into the arena causing...

CR generally becomes less accurate and meaningless as you level up. It basically depends on party composition, resource levels, etc. I have found a lot of the higher tier CR monsters in the MM very weak against high level PCs, however stuff made purely using the DMG rules tend to be a lot...

Yeah. Albeit my groups wiped out or infiltrated the upper keeps without needing to rest. I let them rest there subsequently. They have the Knights of Samular helping them guard Feathergale Spire, and the Zhentarium moved in and took over Riverguard keep after they cleared that out.

You could do some serious damage by summoning enough giant badgers with a few CR3~ evil Druids. Just using the average damage rules from the DMG (instead of rolling) you could swarm a party and do about 40DPR against each character with enough of them. Or use them as sappers to burrow under...

I let them rest in the keeps, I harassed them in the temples with escalating encounters - unless they found an obvious secret/safe spot. In the fane of the eye I made a bee-line straight towards them when they tried to rest and made it obvious that the prophets were getting visions of their...

I've ran a game up to level 19. Levelling is MUCH faster from 11-16. Easily noticeable. Slows down after that though. As a player I also find levelling quite slow level 4-11.

If you get mobbed you will still go down pretty fast. Monsters can use the 'help' action to get advantage, and if your DM is like me (I play a high AC character) he will still roll a lot of crits against you. ;) I'm running Princes of the Apocalypse at the moment, and a lot of monsters in there...

I have it and I enjoy it. They changed a lot between 3e, 4e, and 5e and its good to get a lay of the land now. I also love all the new subclasses. I am looking forward to playing a Bladesong.

The whole premise that the Bear Totem Barbarian can out damage a Berserker Barbarian because of Reckless Attack _ Polearm Mastery is highly flawed and only valid in theory land - not real game land. The real answer to this question is "It depends". Running Tyranny of Dragons as is for example...

Again, I used to think Bear Totem was awesome, but I don't now. The actual time that resistance comes in handy is rare. Usually it's other party members who are low on HPs who desperately need the fight to end NOW rather than the Barbarian. 90% of damage you're taking is standard B/P/S - at...

You're putting way too much emphasis on this whole bonus action thing and your claiming not getting access to Totem abilities is a 'cost' but discounting other Berserker abilities like immunity to Fear and Charm. The Berserker in our group gets good use out of GWM bonus action on kills for...

Not all Totem barbarians are guaranteed to have those feats. And now you're getting quite expensive in terms of feats - assuming you probably want to take GWM as well, which is pure awesome combined with Bless. You could go Human, but then you can't see in the dark and have a whole host of other...

The extra damage for that one BBEG fight is far more important IMO than the extra resistance that Bear Totem gives you. That extra attack when the Barbarian has frenzied has literally saved us in some really tight situations - an extra ~15 damage or so per round is an extra 45 damage or so per...

We're going through Tyranny of Dragons (currently at Rise of Tiamat) and once through the entire campaign did our Berserker Barbarian actually get close to death - fighting one of the Dragons. In other words, the Bear Totem abilities have been basically wasted, maybe with the exception of less...

Thanks for the breakdown. I like the idea that spiritual weapon etc actually target a space and not a creature, thus they do not qualify for twin. I also think in our groups we will adopt a ruling that basically makes the twin wording the equivalent of 'must only target one creature for the...

In other words, spells that target one creature at a time, but can target different creatures over their duration. This has come up in our recent games (Favoured Soul in one game, 9th level Sorcerer in another). I've had a search on the forums but didn't find much. We've ruled "No you cannot"...

I am a computer gamer AND D&D player. I enjoy games like Diablo for what they're worth. However I am disappointed in this game. It was advertised as a D&D game, and while I can understand changing some things to make it more MP/CRPG friendly, this game is basically a mix of Diablo and Divinity...

Do they require attunement? I've found after a while wands get forgotten about because of attunement.

We've been using Silence + Barbarian Grapple against casters recently. Pretty much shuts them down completely, which is good because we don't have access to counterspell etc.