House Rules

I run an “open-world” campaign. I have quotation marks on open-world because, yes, I control the information my players get and the problems they encounter. And yes, if they go in a direction I don’t want them to, I have the power to put something large and scary in their way to push them back. […]

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