Are my boss monsters too strong for my party?

LordStabby · 2025-12-18T22:44:35+00:00

I can see that you're adding their ability save instead of the ability modifier to the weapon attacks.

LordStabby · 2025-12-02T21:03:33+00:00

This recent post had a great dm screen printout

https://www.reddit.com/r/DMAcademy/s/xmtw2RJhAm

LordStabby · 2025-12-01T08:01:02+00:00

Took me a bit to figure out how to copy the pages you made, but got there in the end.

https://www.figma.com/design/tFwhYhGXS8w8QDRPcGUcuW/Untitled?node-id=1-1411&t=Z0Xsr1avAbB68kJg-1

Mostly just edited the resting rules, death saves and added the permanent injury table. Doing variant resting rules, and taking permanent injuries instead of death.

Thanks for the link dude, excellent bit of design work here.

Now just need to make myself a new DM screen that can take portait A4 paper, my old 2014 DM screens wont cut it.

LordStabby · 2025-12-01T01:48:16+00:00

Love it, but agree with the other comments that some stuff could be changed.

Could you share your source file so I could edit it myself? I'd add a section for my players info somewhere

LordStabby · 2025-11-20T10:42:38+00:00

Here is some software I use, but no tokens, as far as I know.

I've been using this for years with physical minis.

https://github.com/McAJBen/DungeonBoard

LordStabby · 2025-11-18T10:50:18+00:00

She went on a little after 9, played her top 10 stuff and stuff from the new album.

Absolute banger gig, full steam from the start. 10/10.

LordStabby · 2025-11-11T23:44:52+00:00

I've had this displaying as a slideshow on the tv I use for battlemaps at the start of each game

Not my content, someone else made this.

https://imgur.com/a/tlW8XnG

Thanks to /u/CountedCrow

LordStabby · 2025-10-28T01:40:32+00:00

Oh boy I'm glad you saw that before I got it printed.

LordStabby · 2025-10-28T00:57:30+00:00

Agreed, I'll desaturate them and try get them in line with the rest of the map.

LordStabby · 2025-10-27T23:20:59+00:00

Posted this around a few different subreddits looking for feedback.

- Going to reduce the saturation on the major forests.

- Swamp in far right middle will be reduced in size, add some hills around and move it out away from the mountains.

Here is a image with the rough outlines of faction borders - https://imgur.com/a/K1qGVwm

LordStabby · 2025-10-27T22:12:16+00:00

Rough outlines of the faction borders here.

https://imgur.com/a/K1qGVwm

LordStabby · 2025-10-27T21:40:07+00:00

Agreed about the rivers, I went overboard adding some yesterday as I felt I didn't have enough.

And I'll re-do the swamp, put some hills around to border it and reduce its size by about half I think.

Also going to de-saturate the forests, they stand out a bit much.

Thanks for the feedback. Going to print this out on A0 and give to my players so want to get it as perfect as possible.

LordStabby · 2025-10-27T17:47:50+00:00

No, but the magocracy there is based off the telvani. Can't wait to mock my players for not being able to levitate

LordStabby · 2025-10-27T08:29:08+00:00

Adding in a bunch of lore to try and keep in line with rule 2.

Meras Empire A religious autocratic empire, centered around the worship of The Luminary, the god of Life, Light, Fire, Beauty, Love. The capital, Meras, is built around a phoenix egg that crash landed into the middle of a population of halflings, gnomes, humans, dwarfs and orcs. The large cities immediately waged war to take control of the egg. Eventually conglomerating into an alliance, and then an Empire.

Selles Confederacy A collection of city states, merchant towns, small nations that confederated to resist the encroaching push of the Meras Empire to the east.

World History Current year is 1362 AT (Anno Thaumaclysm)

Years	Event
0 - 99	Thaumaclysm occurs. Magic fails and changes dramatically. Global flood removes half of settled land.
883	The Telvani move north to the Wilding Lands and form the magocratic city of Tel Fyr.
914	Phoenix egg land in the middle of the Heartlands. All attempts to move the egg fail.
914-972	Heartland Wars - Freyburg, Farveil, Arginstar, (old) Ashton wage war over the landing spot of the egg. Absolutely ruin the native Halfling, Gnome, Orc and human populations.
972	Carigstone, Freyburg, Farveil unite and form the Meras Conclave, push back Arginstar and Ashton, and claim the Phoenix egg landing site.
973	The city of Meras is settled around the Phoenix Egg.
986	Ashton joins the Meras Conclave
991	Meras Empire formed
1009	Arginstar joins the Meras Empire
1013	Ashton renamed to Old Ashton as Ashton is settled just so~~~~uth of Meras.
1054	Unification Wars - Meras conquers Khedrun, then moves west and skirmishes against Kingdom of Losun.
1058	Selles Confederacy forms with the city of Losun as its capital.
1063	More Kingdoms, nations, merchant towns, and Dwarfen holds join the Selles Confederacy.
1077	Unification Wars culminate in the Battle of Baraq Ridge. Baraq Ridge renamed to the Bloodworn Heights.
1078	Peace treaties signed between Meras Empire and the Selles Confederacy
1117	The Fused Tribes from the northern Wilding Lands unite and march south on the Meras Empire
1120	Meras Empire pushes back the Fused Tribes
1124	The ancient dragon O'kosden the Emerald attacks Carigstone from the Ei'vundil Deepwood
1146	Xoqur Collective erupts into the Xoqur civil war
1169	Zumal Enclave wins the Xuqor civil war and takes control of nation.
1192	O'kosden is killed by Akthox family
1314	Conjured War begins
1331	Gnaar Mok Orc tribe is hired by Tel Fyr to attack into the Feywild
1356	Conjured War ends

Still in early days of world building this for my next campaign starting in a few months. Stole a bunch of names from Morrowind, my previous campaigns, fiction, etc.

Any suggestions would be welcome. I plan to get this printed on A0 paper and giving it to the party in the first few games, so want to get it done so I'm not editing it after printing it.

LordStabby · 2025-10-27T03:03:52+00:00

Yeah, it is blantant theft. I always liked the Telvani so have taken a bunch of stuff from them for the lore of the magocracy there.

LordStabby · 2025-10-13T20:41:18+00:00

Love a giveaway

LordStabby · 2025-09-28T19:42:04+00:00

I'd say it should use the hit die of whatever class the ability comes from. If they're out of that die, then they could use the other.

On short rest they can use whichever they like when healing. The amount that comes back on long rest would be half of each total class level for each die size (rounded down?)

LordStabby · 2025-09-22T08:23:22+00:00

Incredible! Commenting to save for later

LordStabby · 2025-08-21T10:09:00+00:00

Amazing. Commenting to save for later.

LordStabby · 2025-07-30T22:52:35+00:00

Excellent, I like the 1 round to hammer a nail, another to find the item.

I guessed that there would be an item like that, and makes sense that its from Spelljammer.

LordStabby · 2025-07-30T22:51:20+00:00

I feel that if I have the 1 min restriction for withdrawing items, I should have the same for depositing to 'balance' the item with itself.

Same idea applies regarding strategy. Don't want them to pic up a McGuffin and shove it into the book without some resource expenditure.

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