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My players are on a mission to find and stop an ancient evil from breaking free. They know little about their mission though, needing to gather information. They are about to meet an incredibly old druid with great powers that holds valuable information about their destination; however, they...

How do you guys handle players with really high passive perception? I have one that got the Observant feat and high Perception already, giving them 21 Passive Perception at level 1... How the hell do I deal with that!? They spot everything at all times...

Hey there, my party is currently on a race against other adventurers to get a dragon hoard after the dragon was slain away from its home. The party learned that the hoard was hidden somewhere (Adult Black Dragon BTW) and every adventurer in the area also knows this. I have some combat...

I recently made one of my players into a Revenant (from the Gothic UA). We haven't had a session since so I would like to know if anyone has tips or experiences with PC Revenants.

They got sharpshooter feat and a artificer(gunsmith) rifle. Every single fight they use their movement to get further and further and further away to the point where I sometimes run out of map... Plus, they get so far away that no enemy can reach them and they end up not really getting damaged...

Hey there! So we just finished the first session in the new campaign. The players are level 10 were on a ship heading to the "New World", however that ship sank and they (plus 30 other people) washed up on some shore. They ventured into the unknown jungles of this new place and after fighting...

I got a bit of an issue... one of my players lost his character in the middle of a quest (they are traveling to a dungeon where a supposed artifact is being held. The character died in the middle of the trip when they were ambushed). He wants to use a new characters, but I am out of ideas on how...

First and foremost, I like to make death meaningful. When a character dies I want more than "I cast Rez, let's go." which is pretty much what starts to happen by now that my players are level 10. As such, I already use Matt Mercer's resurrection rules (resurrection is this whole big ritual that...

So I'm running Out of the Abyss (kinda, just using bits and pieces) and the party will be facing ogremoch's bane next session. According to the book, the elemental cloud can only banished through two different spells that the party doesn't have (Level 6 Paladin, Barbarian and Druid). I feel that...

So I'm running an underdark adventure right now (as you might know if you've seen some of my other threads). One of the party members is an Aasimar Paladin of the Crown who has been playing it up as the honorable and good knight of JUSTICE! He came into possession of a cursed greatsword (which...

Hey! I was wandering how you all calculate fall damage in special situations. For example: Last session my players ended surrounded by enemies on all sides while on a bridge (yes, a cliffhanger). Now thanks to their talk I know that they are planning to jump next session. When the barbarian...

So my players are currently in the UNDERDARK and have been traveling there for a while. This has led to 2 of them having permanent madness (which they seem to love), one of the mad ones having Mummy Rot and the not mad one has a cursed sword that makes him obsessed with it. All in all a pretty...

Anyone know of any way to make huge and larger sized encounters interesting? What I meant by it is that, say a party is fighting a Stone Giant...they are huge and by huge I mean that the players usually barely reach above their knees. Are there any cool mechanics such as, for example, having to...

I've never really allowed multiclassing...I view it as an excuse make ridiculously broke characters. However, my players always wanted multiclassing in our games (half of them are basically munchkins that just love making the strongest characters possible). After so long, I was thinking of just...

So my current campaign is set in the underdark and the characters are making their way to an underground city. To get there they encountered a dungeon with a mummy. An NPC promised to reward them if they rid the dungeon of the undead because they were a threat to her home. The players went down...

Anyone else find it adorable when a player taunts the DM by saying that their character "can't be killed" because they have countermeasures for everything? My friend made a Dream Druid and now thinks that with magic and transformations they can out-heal or flee anything. Thoughts on how I...

I run a game with two other friends, one plays a Lawful Good Paladin while another plays a Chaotic Neutral Wizard. These two budding adventurers (level 2) were on their main mission when a possible side-quest presented itself in the form of a map looted from bandits. The map pointed to a...

Greetings, I'm planning a major plot for my party which is integral to the personal plot of one of them. The plot involves several uses of creatures from the Elemental Plane of Air as the big bad is basically trying to break free from it. The Party is composed of a Battlerager Barbarian, an...

I was playing a one-shot campaign with a few other friends (some of them being part of the group I normally DM) when one of them created a level 10 paladin. So far, my group had little interest in paladins but after seeing this paladin in action they now love it. In one turn, this dual wielding...

What's best when faced with a situation where you want things to be subtle? The DM doing hidden rolls for the player, the DM telling the player to roll but not telling them why or the DM using passive skills? I know passive perception is very much a thing, I use it for when the characters aren't...