u/SoMuchSoggySand

So my players are interested in a more western themed campaign, and I feel like I could incorporate Western themes into Rime of the Frostmaiden. The ten towns are frontier towns and could be more lawless, and there could be economic opportunity with the mines, ivory from knucklehead trout, and chardalyn. I'm also gonna incorporate renaissance guns into the setting, though guns would have been a more recent development in the world. I was wondering if there were other Western themes/tropes that could be incorporated into Icewind Dale. I'm also wondering how I'd make the latter half of the book more western since it has a lot of fantasy elements.

So Lord Cassalanter led the players down their as a trap because the players managed to figure out they sold their children’s souls. I have 5 players who are 6th level. Bad news, one ended up staying upstairs to talk to an NPC from his backstory, and the other 4 barely survived what Lord Casslanter sent to fight them (4 bearded devils and a barbed devil). Lord Casslanter is at half health and would be going upstairs now. I dont know how to reasonably get my players out of this situation, they could beat any guards, servants, and probs Lady Casalanter, but they wouldn’t stand a chance agaisnt Lord Cassalanter. So is there any reasonable way that I could give them to escape or should I let them form their own plan and hope they manage to survive?

So Neverember knows my players know about the Stone of Golorr and may even have it. They're in Neverwinter right now and he plans on offering them noble titles and land if they combine all the eyes to the Stone (i'm doing the Alexandrian Remix) and give it to him. If they decline I want him to attempt to subtly assassinate them, something where he could claim he wasn't apart of it. I'm mainly struggling to figure out where he would meet them, since Castle Never is monster ridden and I doubt he'd have the players assassinated in the Hall of Justice.

I'm tired of the my AirPod Max breaking, I've owned a few and none of them last past 2 years, which is pretty annoying since I don't wanna spend $500 every 2 years. I want something open back because when I call I like being able to hear how loud I'm being. I also want something with a good mic quality for calls (don't mind if there's a little mic thing attached to it). I don't mind if it's wired or not wired, whatever is cheaper. I don't need groundbreaking sound quality, anything decent will do. Would prefer nothing over $100. I'm in the US so something around there.

Can't load my campaign tab or access any of the books.

In my earlier teen years I was easily able to stay up to 1am-3am in the morning and usually did, I've turned 18 recently though and now I've been naturally falling asleep at 11pm. I still like stay up late though so its caused me to sleep from 11pm-3am then be up till 5am and sleep till 9pm. Anyone know why this happens? Btw my sleep schedule is so whack because I've been on summer break.

I was wondering if these changes are balanced? I don't like how to default veteran from Icewind Dale is. They'd mainly fight monsters so why wouldn't they uses weapons that keep them away from these monsters. I also felt they should be good at taking down enemies before they can get close to them. I'm replacing their swords with a pike instead (ascetically it's a longspear), having them only making two attacks as their action, and someone who gets within 5 feet of them provokes an opportunity attack (copied from polearm master). I feel like this would better show they have survived through tactics that work against large monsters and hordes of enemies.

So in my current campaign the Cult of the Dragon is planning to summon Tiamat in Neverwinter. If my players were not able to stop this, what would most likely happen if they succeeded, or more specifically what would Tiamat do?

So I'm currently trying to run a campaign in Neverwinter but I feel like I'm not explaining the city enough. I want to give the players a clear idea of what each ward is like, or common things like how it doesn't snow due to the river or the effects of different factions. I don't feel like I'm presenting this stuff in a clear enough way and it leads to a lot of aspects of the city being easily forgotten. It may be because I'm trying to put to much stuff in the city that it's too much for my players to reasonably understand quickly, idk.

Looking for a ToA group. Ideally the group would meet either Friday evenings, Saturdays, or Sundays in the PST timezone. I'm 18 so I'd prefer a group between the ages of 16-20 years old. I've been playing D&D for about 4 years now and have been a player in and been a DM in a few campaigns. I'm mainly hoping to avoid any problem players and have a chill, nice group who enjoys all three core pillars of D&D (roleplay, exploration, and combat).

Hello! I’m a forever DM who has been dying to play Tomb of Annihilation (flowkirk is one of the few D&D modules I haven’t read 😅). I wanna form a group of friendly players & DM and avoid any problematic players (murder hobos, power gamers, people who don’t show up, or pricks in general). I’m looking for people who enjoy immersive roleplay, challenging combat with the possibility of death, and fun character dynamics. Since I’m 18 I’d prefer a group with an age range of around 16-20. As a player I offer fire session notes and memorizing my character’s abilities and spells. My discord is somegiddygoblin for anyone who's interested!

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Hello, next year I will likely be going to a community college in my city, and therefore will keep living with my parents. I have a few reasons I want to live with my mom full time once this happens. My dad likes being in charge (no problem with that, but I want to live somewhere I have more freedom and can grow to be more independent), I want to help my mom around the house (she's single while my dad is remarried), I want my sisters to have separate rooms (they share a room at my dad's house and if I moved out one could take my room; my sisters don't like sharing a room), and I am tired of going back and forth between houses. I love my dad and would still visit him and my step mom a ton, honestly I think being apart would encourage me to find more ways to spend time with him. My dad would be really bummed about this though, and I'm planning to tell him I can't do the back and fourth anymore and that it would really hurt my mom's feelings if I stayed full time with him. I just want to bring this up in a gentle way without it making him feel like I love my mom more than him. Advice would be very appreciated.

My players are going to be headed to Neverwinter eventually. I know I could try to just get them to go to Waterdeep or just use Waterdeep itself and just change the name, but I like Neverwinter as a setting a lot and find it more compelling than Waterdeep.

What I’m thinking is keeping the Cassalanters (changed to worshipping Tiamat for a player’s backstory, they’d have a winter home in Neverwinter thanks to the river and use that as their cover story). I’d also keep Manshoon, who wants to gain control of Neverwinter while it’s in this vulnerable growing stage.

I’m cutting out Xanathar and probably Jarlaxle because I don’t want there to be too many faction because I’ll be adding a few more Neverwinter specific ones. Of course we have Neverember, who is trying to find the stone so he can a locate the gold (it’s in Neverwinter). He wants this gold to fund imperial pursuits to expand into the surrounding region. There’s also the Son’s of Alagondar, specifically the extremists who want to fund a rebellion that will put who they believe as a true heir on the throne.

I’ll have a few more smaller factions but those are the four major ones. I’ll be using aspects of the Alexandrian Remix, and level it up a bit since my players will be level 6. Do y’all have any advice?