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<blockquote data-quote="Paraxis" data-source="post: 6519351" data-attributes="member: 13009"><p>Don't let your DM ran NPC outshine the characters in anyway. If I feel the need to run one to fill an empty role or to compensate for small party size, it is never the focus in any pillar of the game. Don't make it the social person of the party, the knowledgeable one, the exploration/detective, or the most damaging. Nothing kills player fun faster than feeling like they are second string to some DM's pet character.</p><p></p><p>If you start at first level, be very careful of what enemies you use some like the hobgoblins can get a good hit in and drop a PC to negative total HP and instantly kill them.</p><p></p><p>There are some good resources here in the download section on ENworld, good stuff over at the D&D reddit, there is an active Google+ community.</p><p></p><p>Here are a few of my favorite 5th edition resources.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://kobold.club/fight/#/encounter-builder" target="_blank">http://kobold.club/fight/#/encounter-builder</a></p><p>An encounter builder, lets you sort monsters by type and CR for seeing what you can summon with certain spells and wildshape forms.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://salty-ridge-7989.herokuapp.com/" target="_blank">http://salty-ridge-7989.herokuapp.com/</a></p><p>A spell index, again you can sort and filter by things like school, level, and if it requires concentration.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sageadvice.eu/" target="_blank">http://www.sageadvice.eu/</a></p><p>A collection of rules questions and answers to the game designers via twitter, with a nice search by tag feature.</p><p></p><p>Hope this stuff helps, and good gaming.</p><p></p><p>Oh, last piece of advice take all advice with a grain of salt especially online there are plenty of people trying to get you to play the way they do and anything else is bad/wrong/fun. The only thing that matters at the end of the session is if you and your players had fun, not that you played the way someone said you should or not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paraxis, post: 6519351, member: 13009"] Don't let your DM ran NPC outshine the characters in anyway. If I feel the need to run one to fill an empty role or to compensate for small party size, it is never the focus in any pillar of the game. Don't make it the social person of the party, the knowledgeable one, the exploration/detective, or the most damaging. Nothing kills player fun faster than feeling like they are second string to some DM's pet character. If you start at first level, be very careful of what enemies you use some like the hobgoblins can get a good hit in and drop a PC to negative total HP and instantly kill them. There are some good resources here in the download section on ENworld, good stuff over at the D&D reddit, there is an active Google+ community. Here are a few of my favorite 5th edition resources. [URL="http://kobold.club/fight/#/encounter-builder"]http://kobold.club/fight/#/encounter-builder[/URL] An encounter builder, lets you sort monsters by type and CR for seeing what you can summon with certain spells and wildshape forms. [URL="http://salty-ridge-7989.herokuapp.com/"]http://salty-ridge-7989.herokuapp.com/[/URL] A spell index, again you can sort and filter by things like school, level, and if it requires concentration. [URL="http://www.sageadvice.eu/"]http://www.sageadvice.eu/[/URL] A collection of rules questions and answers to the game designers via twitter, with a nice search by tag feature. Hope this stuff helps, and good gaming. Oh, last piece of advice take all advice with a grain of salt especially online there are plenty of people trying to get you to play the way they do and anything else is bad/wrong/fun. The only thing that matters at the end of the session is if you and your players had fun, not that you played the way someone said you should or not. [/QUOTE]
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