DM: The ancient black dragon of unfathomable power looms in front of your small puny adventuring party. A sizzle can be heard as a gob of caustic fluid drips from its lips. You see the skulls of hundreds of adventurers MORE POWEFUL THAN YOU lining the walls. What do you do?Players: We can do this, […]
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“Fine, I’ll just have it back then.” Ros stated pointedly, holding his hand out to the back of the exotic trader walking away from him. He was feeling unusually indignant, and not nearly high enough to take this one in stride. He suddenly regretted his statement and wished he could go back a few minutes.
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“I would like to sneak down the hallway.” the rogue states.“Alright, make a stealth check.” says the GM.The rogue stares forelornly down at her newly rolled 11. There ends up being nothing down the hallway anyway. “I uh… head back to the group to tell them?” she asks, meta-hoping to rid herself of that roll
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There is a surprising amount of ambiguity around surprise and being surprised in Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition. It may come as a surprise to many that there is no ‘surprise round’ in D&D 5E. This is partially due to the fact that surprise was handled in various manners in previous editions. But it is
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In a recent D&D session our merry band of adventurers had found out that, high atop a mountain, a piece of a powerful staff was sequestered in an ancient crypt. But a rival gang of evildoers also knew and was heading there, so we set out to beat them to the prize and prevent the
