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So on Mike Mearls' Happy Fun Hour stream on Tuesday, he mentioned his thoughts on Action Economy briefly. "If this phrase comes up as part of the design process, we have probably done something wrong. If we're thinking of actions as an economic resource that are being spent, I think we've...

So I've been thinking recently about high magic worlds, and how to make them feel sensible. In the Forgotten Realms there are magic users running all over the place, especially in large cities. This could cause real trouble for the Watch, particularly if they're not trained to deal with it. So...

I couldn't see a thread had been made about this yet, so I thought I'd point out the new Roll20 module trailer for Tomb of Annihilation. Video here . It shows off a lot of cool looking maps from the module right at the start (you may want to slow the video to half speed and pause as the images...

So, my party are entering the sacred stone monastery for the second time (previously they were level one and just briefly explored the top level before legging it. Now they are level 5, and have dealt with Rivergard Keep, the water temple, Feathergale Spire (kind of), and the Sacred Stone Monks...

According to Mike Mearls's twitter, the D&D site and other tweets from participants there is going to be a new weekly D&D stream run by Chris Perkins! Details here. It's initially going to be the new adventure "Curse of Strahd". The players are as follows: Anna Prosser Robinson: Video games...

An interesting and very long thread on traps I'm going to try and port over to here slowly over the next month. Thanks to @MerricB for the tool to make this so much easier! Originally posted by kraleck: Are you a DM? Do you need a clever trap but have no time or imagination? Then do we have a...

I'm pretty sure I'm not going to like the answer, but what is the easiest/quickest way of saving large threads? For instance, there's a thread with close to 1800 home-made traps ( This one ) that's been going for the last 8 years or so, and it would be a terrible shame for it to be lost to the...

Sorry, didn't see this had been made, please delete.

Possible spoilers for HotDQ ahead. So my players are about to go on the caravan journey following the cult in chapter 4, and I've never really run any scene like this before. From reading the chapter it feels like running it how it's presented in the book would feel very forced for the...