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He forgot to add power trippin, player hating, killer DM's to his rant. Personally, I LIKE non expanding fireballs, non bouncing lightning bolts, and no critical misses allowed! Just because it pisses these DM's off so much, lol. They used these things to gleefully wreck characters for the...

I still say GO TO YOUR ROOM!!! should be the verbal component to Banishment.

True- considering how hard they leaned on Concentration as a mechanic for spells, I was flabbergasted that Spiritual weapon had just a regular duration. Even more so when I read the fine print, that said you can move the weapon- and get a second attack as a bonus action. One could also...

We got our butts handed to us... First room of the dungeon we get to this session- immediately post long rest- was the Hill Giant commons... ELEVEN of the brutes. Thief got dropped, and failed his first death save. paladin got beaten to a bloody pulp- down to 8 hp. Fighter beaten up...

I LIKE that idea!! He already uses Spiritual weapon frequently. Having it seemingly come out of nowhere? Priceless! WTF??? I was just minding my business- and all of a sudden this glowing warhammer appears, and starts beating me like a redheaded stepchild... SW is perfect for those...

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of putting an enemy BBEG in "Time out" until we deal with the minions, lol. Go sit in the corner!! We'll deal with you in a minute! The wizard actually took it as one of his 2 "free" spells. (for levelling up) He is, after all, an Abjurer.

I own the 5e PHB, Xanathars, and Tashas. Are there any others that might contain expanded spell lists? My cleric just made 7th level, giving him access to 4th level spells. Upon closer inspection, I noticed the available list of 4th level cleric spells is tiny! like 7 or8 spells tiny, and...

My experience is very close to yours, except we moved to 1e first, then added stuff from 2e. Switched to 3e, and Skipped 4e entirely, partly due to adulting- and the fact that we lived 1000 miles apart at the time, lol, and partly due to it straying TOO far from the core of the game. We're...

they assaulted the Dungeon of the Dweller. Made short work of the Stinking Troglodytes and ogres guarding the enterance- so quick, an alarm was never raised! (module even says the dimwitted ogre with the horn only remembers to use it 30% of the time, lol.) They then decided to follow the...

I ususally go for Defense, as a +1 to AC is always useful! Though my Paladin took Protection. He took the traditional oath, and really leans into the protector thing. He and his battle axe and smite/ smite spells, dish out a lot of damage, too. Dwarf Paladin of Clangeddin Silverbeard.

I've just spent a bunch of time with the lewt sheet from the last module. It, too was from 2e, and there were plenty of discrepancies... For example, the wand of fire can cast the Pyrotechnics spell- which no longer exists. So I'll just use the 2e version, and made the fx a DC13 Wisdom...

I do this all the time, including using adventures written for past editions. Some of my most recent pulls: Minotaur Lizards. (1E) I also had to pull stats for Elite and chieftain Troglodytes out of my butt, because nobody at WOTC bothered, nor did Troll Lord games (my favorite non WOTC...

Imo, it is a descendant of all of them- B/X and BECMI included. Or, more aptly, and evolution of them. We felt like 3e was a better representation of how we ACTUALLY played the game, vs TSR's RAW version- with a bunch of extras thrown in. Like the unified D20 system. This included, but...

That works! Thanks.

I'm currently preparing a 3rd party module : The Labrynth of the Dweller, by Dungeoneer's Guild Games for my 5e party. The module is for the 1e AD&D rules, so I'm going thru and updating all the monsters. It's a classic romp through a large monster filled dungeon! I quickly came upon...

As a noob, I would definitely recommend NOT worrying about "builds", and just have a look at the intro blurbs for each class in the Players Handbook- and pick one that looks interesting and fun to play. Same for races. We can all give advice- but YOU are the one who will be playing it. If...

hmm. a. Have to agree with Concentration being too all encompassing. Could be my TSR era heart coming out, but sometimes it just seems arbitrary and even petty. b. non mechanical, BUT: as I experiment with more(sub) classes, 5e's decision to list spells only by level , and class list is...

Exactly, that's what I was talking about. I was out of the loop from the end of 3.5 to several years into 5e, so When I started hearing about the sundering, the spell plague, Azoun dying, etc I was not too pleased. Esp to find out Mystra was murdered AGAIN, and why. So, I decided, like...

My thoughts about the 3E Realms setting book exactly. A very well done book. I ended up collecting a ton of the 3E Realms books. The reason I'm not too interested in the newer stuff, IS the lore. I've grown rather weary and jaded of the world shaking events that always herald a new...

That'll make it more fun to run encounters with these- I can actually describe them to the players! I've come across these before over they years, and the concept was just wicked and nasty enough to add tons of flavor- and really make players despise those enemies who created and used them...