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u/JoeNoble1973

They have some cool low level powers/abilities, character has started to flesh out. Useful if you want to avoid Lvl 1 and 2 Baby PC grinding.
u/JoeNoble1973

Trienne Tallspruce, local forester. Lives outside of town. Early 20s, all thats left of her family after an orc raid when she was a teen. Tough, strong, and independent.
u/JoeNoble1973

Excellent work!! Strahd is one nasty bugger, no joke.
u/JoeNoble1973

Spell ranges and interactionsbecame more clear to me.
u/JoeNoble1973

Strahd von Zarovich has some hit and run tendencies; if THAT big bad can guerrilla attack PCs, your main can do the same!
u/JoeNoble1973

Get out of my head
u/JoeNoble1973

This is excellent advice. Laying out an entire world and populating everything isoften pointless. The players will go off on a tangent or whimsically shatter your carefully planned encounters. Plan for what theyre likely to run into soon, and worry about the rest later. As DMjust roll with it
u/JoeNoble1973

Im a player in my Tuesday group, and the DM for a different Thursday crew. Im a happy lil DnD nerd! I was forever DM before my Tuesday group formed, so Im really enjoying being a PC again! I think it makes me a better DM; creates empathy for the PCs that I probably lost over the years as just DM.
u/JoeNoble1973

Sporos, human Paladin. 1983
u/JoeNoble1973

A fine ideabut thats the beauty of D&D! WHO KNOWS what the players might do?! And the DM can justmold the world/action around their unexpected decisions. He can go any number of ways with it. Im with you, they should eventually have an are we the baddies? moment, and they can face down the BBG at the climax. You lied to us! (Party attacks)