Recent content by the Jester

I use Bloodied Breath for (most all) dragons in my campaign.

I'd have to give the nod to the versions in the 4e Monster Vault. This was the product that, IMHO, reached the apex of D&D monster design.

I prefer the way monster roles were handled in the 3.5e book Dungeonscape- there are roles, and there are monsters, and the same monster might fill multiple roles. There's no reason a lich can't be a striker, a lurker, or a controller, depending on its spell selection, for example.

I'll take a look! Mostly this group is to give me an opportunity to run old adventures that either I haven't run previously or that I haven't run in years. So any suggestions for good adventures are fine. I do prefer adventures that aren't just one note, with a variety of encounter types and...

Hey guys, I am running a group that is basically playing a variety of canned adventures that I am converting to 5e. I would love suggestions for future adventures to use from any edition. The pcs have played and/or are playing the following: (level 1) the Whispering Cairn (Dungeon Mag) (level...

Buffalo and bison! And stench kine! EDIT: And depending on your interpretation, maybe catoblepas???

I enjoy them (canned adventures) but almost always heavily adjust them to suit my campaign. I really enjoy writing up adventures, but my playstyle is one where I follow the pcs rather than leading them, so I don't always know what to write. When the group has a clear next agenda, I try to prep...

There is, at present, only one remaining city. There was a recent chaos apocalypse in game, which the pcs staved off at great cost. Pre-chaos apocalypse, the city had approx. 40,000 people; now it is significantly reduced, I want to say to around half that but would have to dig out some notes...

It was good- fast-paced, starting in a combat that was last session's cliffhanger and ending in a confrontation with the adventure's BBEG (or one of them, anyway) that was inconclusive and resulted in the bad guy fleeing while the pcs fell back, both sides pretty close to defeat. For those...

When I'm running my game, the players roll for stats, but I review the array and if it is boring- which is completely subjective but includes results that are too good, too bad, or too middle of the road- I have the player reroll. When I'm making a pc, I prefer to roll stats in order and see...

Arch-devils and demon princes were considered lesser gods in 1e. They could definitely grant spells; there are specifically tons of examples of clerics of Lolth back then.

You are significantly increasing the damage output, and therefore the Challenge Rating, of bigger monsters. This may result in making many bigger monsters that are otherwise appropriate for low to mid level pcs shift to where they are only appropriate for higher level pcs to face, which may have...

My 'fix' would be to make the shield bonus apply only against the triggering attack, with the option to upcast one level to have it last until the end of the turn it activates, and to upcast it two levels to have it last until the end of your next turn.

Just to be clear, Hunger of the Unicorn is a reflavored Hunger of Hadar where you can't see because of the brightness, and the cold damage is brain freeze from forced ingestion of ice cream, and the acid damage comes from the intensity of the sugar content in all the cupcakes and caramel hitting...

Reflavored- "Hunger of the Unicorn".