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We're using the Lingering Injuries rules at my table, in this fashion: Once per session (only!), the player of a PC who is down and bleeding out may choose to take a Lingering Injury to automatically stabilize. Our table tends to be pretty deadly; we're old-school players who tend to enforce...

Picked up a copy on a whim, and didn't regret it. The two things that impressed me most about Paleomythic are... 1) The production quality. The artwork is stunning; full-color, evocative of the setting, and every piece as good as the cover or example included in the article. This is Tier 1 art...

I'm okay that the Wall exists in FR, but maybe that's because I view the FR a bit differently than some. For me, it is an evil of almost Cthulhu-esque proportions. Other posters have already explained why: it prevents non-devout souls from reaching their "destination plane" (as based on...

** SPOILERS ** A large portion of CoS is a re-do of Castle Ravenloft (i.e. the castle itself). Let's call if 30%. If they're intimately familiar with the castle, the location of its secret doors, how the crypts and teleporters work, and the general location of some of the chief antagonists...

That is not a CR 2 opponent, IMHO, regardless of conjure animals. If you only look at it's AC, HP and melee attack... it's tougher than a CR 2 ogre. +1 AC, +1 average damage, and +32 (!!) HP. Plus it has disease, immunities, zombie toughness, pack tactics, and a 5th level caster spell-list. So...

I'll add my vote to: "This is how I run it in my games too". In a "dungeon" adventure, the party usually needs to either clear an entire "level" (whatever that means) or retreat completely from the dungeon to rest in a "town" and come back later. By then, the remaining monsters have reinforced...

Love it, although HP should probably be 34 with an 18 Con (4d8+16)... :-)

Beautiful illos indeed... taken from other publishers like CD Projekt Red, Games Workshop and Bethesda. Which, one hopes, were authorized. Although somehow I doubt it.

So, some idle thoughts. Why would the ranger not be thematic? You gain bonuses on monster knowledge and tracking, favored terrain, etc. Monster Slayer allows you to determine a creature's hidden weaknesses by glancing at it, Horizon Walker allows you to detect nearby portals, Gloom Stalker...

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Lawful Evil, in my group. I've got several players who regularly go with CN characters, and it's frustrating. An LE character might get another player killed... but a CN character will often end the campaign. My players use the CN alignment for "teh lulz", as the kids sometimes say. Drink from...

Good point. Let me rephrase that: "What we do at our table is..." For my group, we always declare actions before seeing results. So, if a PC takes the attack action with Extra Attack, he has to declare his targets before rolling dice. If he's attacking two enemies (1 fresh, 1 wounded), he has...

I know. It was sarcasm. The first posted response to this thread was suggesting that making D&D competitive was a terrible idea. My response was implying that D&D *was* a competitive game, and it wasn't the end of the world. Classic modules like Tamoachan and the Slavers series were designed for...

Also, if you're worried about D&D being a competition game, please don't invest in many of the old 1e modules. You'll find score cards at the back of the A1-A4 modules (among many others), because these were used as competitive tournament modules. Groups of players actively competed against each...

Yeah. By reading the article above, you get a better take. He's a CEO of a multi-billion dollar company who doesn't play the game, or even know too much about the details, talking to an audience of investors who want to hear buzzwords. And, in the quote, he's specifically talking about both MTG...

Yes, because Rule 0. If the DM thinks that it's thematic, will create an appropriate level of risk/excitement in the game, and applies their ruling consistently... then go for it. "The gladiator hurls you away with one hand, and frantically stabs... once... with his spear!" Note that it...

...although, to answer the underlying question, my group has never been higher than 13th level in 5th edition. Not because we don't enjoy high-level play, but because they're always TPK'ed before hitting 14th level. We have a general group rule: if the campaign ends in a TPK, we always start...

Ogremoch, at the end of the Princes of the Apocalypse campaign. It ended with a TPK (five 13th level PCs). Oh, and Iymrith (ancient blue dragon) in Storm King's Thunder... but that one probably doesn't count, as the circumstances of the battle are a bit unusual. My guys didn't make it to the...

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