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Angrom strokes his beard and scratches his head, hmms and ahhs, as he studies the scroll, "To be honest Miss Ostergaard, the clergy of Dumathoin were a secretive lot. When we weren't fighting zombies, I scarcely ventured within the temple save for the holy days. It's something about protection –...

5e PHB and DMG often use "Strength check" or "Intelligence check" or "Dexterity check" in the general application of 5e's skill rules – which is that whether or not proficiency in a skill applies to a roll is up to the GM. The reason hardly anyone remembers or pays attention to that is cause...

I began playing D&D in '88 as a young kid, with a group using a mix of mostly AD&D 1st edition classes/races along with BD&D stuff for cleaned up rules – at least that's what I vaguely recall. And then the following year in 1989 2nd edition came out, and then my family moved and I started GMing...

Grappling, Pummeling, and Overbearing in the 1e DMG. I've tried several times to parse it over the years, hunting for the good hidden in the text, and after my eyes go bleary... I ultimately agree with Gygax's later assessment that it deserved to be discarded.

GM POST Angrom clutches the unconscious dwarf's hand as Logrim sets to work binding his wounds and keeping the dwarf from biting his tongue in the residual spasms from the lightning, "We'll get you home with your shield, Rurm, not on it." As Zeth ensures the zombies are given a proper...

I remember you broke base camp early to beat the storm... so I think you have not had a long rest. Yeah, when a party gets low on healing resources (and they don't have spare the dying), and you need to make DC 10 Medicine checks to stabilize someone, that's when having a healer's kit is worth...

Flaring to life, the glyph sends streaks of lightning erratically crackling between the floor and ceiling in fits and leaps. Arcing sparks leap from Ludo, incinerating the two zombies closest to the brave steel defender. Ludo attempts to take a staggering step toward your party, a horrible...

GM POST Jack’s illusory war horn distracts one of the zombies that shambles over to it slack-jawed. However, the burning zombie slams against Rurm’s attempt to recreate a shield wall, knocking the dwarf unconscious and sending his shield clattering with traces of fire clinging to it! The...

GM POST Brydum hesitantly brings the engraved horn to his lips and blows it – a deep resonant sound echoing through the temple's ruined mead hall. There is no discernible change to the building magical energy that Alma can perceive or the light fluctuations to the runic circle that Jack can...

Absolutely yes. And I want to mention to @VLAD the Destroyer also... I am not a stickler about enforcing action economy. If you want to speak, go for it at anytime. If you want to swap out weapons mid-fight, don't worry about technical sequence of "but I already used my one free object...

Remember when Xanathar's Guide came out and Chapter 2 had little rules clarifications – how to adjudicate simultaneous effects, falling rate, how to wake someone up/sleeping in armor/no long rest consequences, perceiving a caster, identifying spell (ok their answer sucked then but at least they...