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My group are on the Death House chapter now, which is great, but only because the situation has gone completely wrong. But as DM I am starting to find it all a bit repetitive now and am considering stopping this adventure and moving onto Call of Cthulhu instead of D&D. This group has been...

I played an ex-Paladin desperate to redeem himself. He held the line while the rest of the party fled. I didn't have to and he probably could have escaped with the others, but it's what the character would do.

I'm finding that after 45 years of playing D&D I'm starting to get a bit bored of it. The combat system and the reliance on tightly defined abilities is starting to get me down - maybe because my players are level 14 in this current campaign and it's all getting a bit grindy. I'm just setting up...

I used to run homebrew and they were fantastic. Then I ran heavily modified pre-made. Now I have many responsibilities and not much time so I run pre-made. The more homebrew the better the game, but in reality any D&D is better than no D&D.

To hit tables. It seems so amazing that something like that existed when the d20 system is so simple, and that THAC0 had to be developed in between.

Sounds more realistic to me. It takes me hours to unrage.

It's a while back now so I can't remember clearly, but I think it was in the bit where the wall rises up. The party had split themselves up exploring different close-by areas and triggered multiple encounters simultaneously.

Whatever is in the modules I use that they happen to find. Easy for this lazy DM.

It was just a one-off though - by the end of the session they were back in their old world with their normal DM

I have a couple of examples of this. The first is where in a game I was a player, we all got transported to another world that looked suspiciously like my campaign. At that point the DM got up, got into my seat and took my character and I jumped behind the DM screen. "You're in my world now...

The only issue I have with Tomb is the sense of urgency that is seeded at the start. This is an adventure where the adventurers should take their time and feel open to explore. There is so much more that my players missed because they were hyperfocussed on achieving the end-goal. They still got...

Tomb of Annihilation for sure, followed by Red Hand of Doom. Both had aspects that I have seen done in other adventures, but never as well.

Deviousquail's Clever Nickname (transmutation)- A curse spell for that takes an obvious aspect of the targets physical or personal characteristics and exaggerates them to a ridiculous degree. This deformity may be so exaggerated that it affects a creatures attributes. For instance, a creature...

I like how it is now. I just rolled up a barbarian and I liked how I could carefully consider the pros and cons of each weapon. Ended up choosing a greataxe and a maul. Lot's more to take into account than DPR.

You missed a trick. After novice it could have been: Basic Expert Companion Master Immortal *Only Master grognards or older will get this reference.