Scenario 3: If your players' responses make clear that they really don't care about the story or the characters, then you have to decide how to proceed: either give up on trying to intimidate the PCs or otherwise get character-based reactions from them, and play the light hack 'n...
The Common House Rule Involving Potions That Most Players Use In DnD 5E Image via Wizards of the Coast It’s acommon house rule in D&D 5E for drinking a potion to be a Bonus Action when used on yourself. This means that the character can still perform a regular Action that turn, such ...
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The dungeon regroups while the PCs rest: This is explicitly stated in the adventure module, although you might initially be at a loss as to how to make the dungeon recover without sending the PCs back to square one. Whenever the PCs take a long r...
Infuse Item is your core class feature. It allows you to create a selection of magic items and change them everylong rest 5e. The items that you can make starts out strong, and only gets better as you level. There are three popular schools of thought on how to use this feature, and ...
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you wouldn’t think that someone like Jack Skellington would work as a Lego minifigure, but actually quite suits him, and Sally looks pretty darn great too. The geniuses at Lego HQ even found a way to make the Mayor of Halloween Town work in Lego form. I’m kind of sad Oogie Boogie...
It's supposed to be easy to get that's the point. Most games don't have 2 months worth of downtime unless you give them that. I'm personally a big fan of the rest variant rule it would also make this not a big deal. I just had a player spend a week making potions. ...
A tool such as a forgery kit is used to make fake objects and little else. Thus, why would a character who has the opportunity to acquire one or the other want to gain a tool proficiency instead of proficiency in a skill? To make tool proficiencies more attractive choices for the ...
I've been running 5e for years, and the long rest mechanic is intrinsic to the game's enjoyability. No arguments here. Still, I have to ask myself: if long rest fixes everything, shouldn't our D&D worlds be pretty much utopias? Long rests do not fix things like disease and poison...