#dnd 5e

Went into a room with a bunch of armoured corpses around a table with an engraving about the Oath of the Order of the Silver Dragon, we notice theres a space over the mantel where it looked like something once hanged there, but is now gone.

New player's character Alain was like "hey I woke up in Barovia with a torn banner, let me hang it up"

Turns out the banner is the standard of Castle Ravenloft, you know the army that destroyed the Order & desecrated the Silver dragons corpse.

The revenants wake & say "why do the living trespass here" before seeing the banner & attacking us, roll for initiative, we'll pick this back up next session.

At a big table, someone floats a terrible plan and four other people vote it down. It dies in committee. Safe.

At a table of two or three, there is no committee. There is just you, your friend, and the word "trust me." Nobody to talk you out of it, no back row to hide in when it goes sideways. Every bad idea gets a green light.

And somehow those are the sessions you are still telling stories about years later.

The tide goes out too far, too fast. Then it comes back standing up like a wall — and there's a great white the size of a fishing ship inside it, wearing the storm like a second skin.

Sharkicane is a zero-prep 5e one-shot for 2-3 players, levels 2-3. You get one afternoon to move the town behind the seawall before the hurricane makes landfall with teeth. Hold the harbor, or run — your call.

Hey yall! Was playing around with the numbers for how classes are balanced and toying with making a rogue-variant in my Variant Class brew series, when I came upon a puzzle: Damage Per Round isnt just a measure of how hard you hit, but how often you hit! So, couldn't a class keep up with their peers not through pure damage, but by just having really consistent hit rates?

Thus, was born the sleuth! A detectivey, big brained martial class built on the rogue subclass chassis! Hope you enjoy :>

But I mean… Strahd being Mormon isn’t far fetched… and I also hate that lmfao

When a fight feels too easy, don't add more monsters — a small party just gets focus-fired, and someone's on the floor by round two.

Do this instead: keep the monster count low and give your one big threat a second, weaker turn each round, on a lower initiative count. Same monster, twice the pressure, none of the pile-on.

One monster, two turns. That's how you challenge a small table without killing it.