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That's something I had considered (pretty sure Drizzt did something like that vs Icingdeath... wait he doesn't have lightning bolts! Can't remember how he did that), how did you rule the stalagmite, btw? Dex save vs half, did you really fluff the damage up or?

So as I understand it, in order to make your virtual model, to then pay to have made, you need to pay for access to those CritRole options, which seems ridiculous since you're going to be buying the mini.. why not just charge more for the mini? Well, the answer may be... that they want to...

Can you elaborate on "forced casters to work more strategically?" A couple examples maybe? I'm also wondering how to get players to think that way, it definitely seems like a learned behavior... I've had some that would just repeatedly throw their hands up when the same tactic wouldn't work...

Someone expresses a concern about product ownership vs licensing for use, and your reply to them amounts to "nothing matters, we're all dust in the wind, enjoy it while it lasts."

Just a quote from a Let's Read on it: It doesn't read as particularly imbalanced.

As many here mention, the modern one would be Rise of the Drow- but beware, it is massive.

Relevant part from the Questing Beast video, though I think it's a worthwhile and relatively quick watch/listen: Later on he has both good and bad things to say about the long-form adventure in the book. Overall he seemed happier with it than he was with the one-pagers, though it still had a...

Yeah this probably deserves its own thread, but the Epic Destinies section really push the "OC" direction of play- that is, it's the players' world and the DM is there to help them live out their fantasies. Just like some players plan their character out from levels 1-20, now they can plan out...

I'm not sure what you mean re: convoluted or detailed adventures. DnD5e is primarily what I've been running. In-person the fanciest stuff I used were my hoarded horde of minis. I got most of the "juice" from my in-person interactions, face to face, and improvised most of it. I had lots of books...

The point that stood out to me in his review was that these adventures are linear, scripted back-to-back combat encounters; there are incredible one-page dungeons out there, the format is great, but these designers didn't know how to actually write good one-page dungeons. The bar he set for...

Yes, it is set up to seem scary/difficult to the PCs but, at least on paper, any decent party will blow through it. Paper tiger. But on-point, someone mentioned in another thread that a lot of high-level adventures tend to go combat-heavy. So maybe the key is to present more interesting...

I was surprised that it had no barrier to entry! I really did expect a feat, half-feat, or for it to be crappy without said investment.

In-person, my prep was like... 15 minutes of picking out minis, 5-10 minutes of writing down names and places, and 15 minutes of driving to the game and thinking about what could happen. Online I need to make it all nice to satisfy my own standards, that's like... 2+ hours per session.

Just a note that only half of them require any resource expenditure, and action economy's only a concern in an actual combat- which it seems like a lot of folk are not referring to here. edit: Although the above mention of a massive Spirit Guardians seems pretty crazy, and obviously would be in...

I imagine folk just don't like the idea that it'll become an expected/assumed part of 5e character building/planning. 5e14 multiclassing was meant to be optional, but now it's core- probably because it was so popular with players.. even though it was not taken into account when they were...