Role-playing Games Stack Exchange
Role-playing Games Stack Exchange

Most Popular

more tags
1500 questions
44
votes
6 answers

How do I keep my players from focusing too deeply on unimportant details?

A little bit of backstory. Me and a few friends from my job decided to play D&D 5e while we're kinda stuck in one place and were quite bored. So we got everything we needed and they chose me to DM. None of us ever really played but we got the hang…
Nep
  • 443
  • 4
  • 6
44
votes
5 answers

How can I develop my character's background when I know nothing of the game's lore and want to avoid spoilers?

This is a tricky one, and I may be painting myself into a corner in which case please feel free to tell me so in an answer but please also provide advice on how to get out whilst disturbing as little paint as possible! I'm 5 sessions into a new game…
RyanfaeScotland
  • 1,064
  • 10
  • 20
44
votes
10 answers

Randomly-generating weather for a sandbox campaign

I'm running a sandbox campaign and I've been looking for a method of randomly determining the weather for the day. Features I'm looking for: Low-to-medium handling time during play. Big tables are fine if they're easy to use. I'm fine if the system…
SevenSidedDie
  • 243,609
  • 44
  • 785
  • 1,025
44
votes
4 answers

Can a paralyzed creature targeted by an Evocation Wizard's Sculpt Spells feature actually succeed a Dex save?

Say a friendly barbarian is currently paralyzed. Part of the description of the paralyzed condition says: The creature automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving throws. Its friend, the School of Evocation wizard, casts a fireball in the…
Alex Millette
  • 5,761
  • 7
  • 28
  • 51
44
votes
12 answers

Players Develop Backstories Too Much

I keep running into an issue as a dungeon master where my players develop their characters a bit too much. By this, I mean that they'll write up things in their backstories or develop NPCs that aren't their own, and decide things that their…
Cooper
  • 9,566
  • 3
  • 38
  • 71
44
votes
5 answers

Which feat, Resilient (Con) or War Caster, improves the chances of maintaining concentration more?

The Resilient feat (PHB, p. 168) allows you to increase one ability score by 1 and gain proficiency in saving throws using the corresponding ability. In essence, taking the Resilient feat and picking Constitution adds a flat bonus to all…
mgillesp
  • 947
  • 1
  • 9
  • 12
44
votes
4 answers

How to avoid favoritism when only one PC pulls on plot hooks?

I've been DMing a campaign for a while, and it has gone great. Unfortunately, I've noticed a trend in my style that I'm struggling to nip in the bud. The whole party works together rather cohesively, but one player finds himself frequently talking…
Abigale Moore
  • 761
  • 6
  • 12
44
votes
10 answers

Can weapons get better?

I'm currently running my first D&D 5e campaign. Everybody at the table is new to the game as well, so nobody can really answer the question. While preparing for the game I was reading through the weapons section and came across the list of weapons…
macskay
  • 529
  • 1
  • 4
  • 6
44
votes
12 answers

Should I change the entire campaign to please one player?

So, I'm running my first ever dnd campaign - and I'm having a blast doing it. I've found a really great group of players, who are really accomodating to my newbieness, and I couldn't be happier with them going along with my crazy schemes. Overall, I…
Matt D
  • 2,707
  • 4
  • 22
  • 39
44
votes
10 answers

In what medium does D&D get played nowadays?

I'm 38, and I remember playing D&D when I was a kid, almost 20 years ago, but to my knowledge have not heard of or know how it is played today. Being that there is a stackexchange for concept it must have a good following, but where? Is it still…
Anthony Fornito
  • 583
  • 1
  • 5
  • 6
44
votes
2 answers

Does Heavy Armor reduce your speed?

I noticed in the PHB, page 20, under Speed for Dwarves: Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet. Your speed is not reduced by wearing heavy armor. However, I cannot find anywhere in PHB that mentions that wearing Heavy Armor imposes any speed…
NathanS
  • 78,934
  • 67
  • 381
  • 661
43
votes
5 answers

Does a shield count as wearing metal armor for Shocking Grasp?

If an enemy is not wearing metal armor but is wielding a metal shield, do you get advantage on the attack roll for Shocking Grasp?
Yuuki
  • 783
  • 7
  • 16
43
votes
4 answers

How do I introduce an inexperienced player to the FATE combat system?

One of the things that I love about the FATE system is how flexible it is; even given the less than crunchy nature of the system, you have options galore. That's given one of my players analysis paralysis: in combat, she can't really function all…
Chuck Dee
  • 18,313
  • 2
  • 48
  • 122
43
votes
7 answers

What's the purpose of the same page tool?

The same page tool has been mentioned on this site and I would like to use it if needed. The problem is that I'm not entirely sure what the purpose of the tool is. My first impression was that this was to be filled out by the group so that people…
SkySpiral7
  • 597
  • 4
  • 9
43
votes
7 answers

Is it stated in the rules to be standard practice to hide rolls in 3.5e?

I haven't been playing D&D for too long, maybe a year, but the DM of the main campaign I'm in always hides his dice rolls. I don't have an issue with it, but when I play with another group the DM leaves everything in the open, so I'm wondering if…
galois
  • 619
  • 1
  • 5
  • 8
1 2 3
…
99 100