The Next Session

Ep 58 Hostages and Holy Aura

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Next Session Help: Falcner1 has a scenario where the players are going to compete against NPCs for a spot guarding a ship.

KnickKnack (not real name) Has a player who is constantly taking hostages. Help!

Ask a GM: TheAngelWarrior7's player has a kind of gun and shoots it at an enemy point blank. Does it automatically hit? Should they have to roll for it?

Use That Spell! Holy Aura

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Next Session Help: Up-Above is making a Zoo Encounter based on the game Ape Escape and needs some help planning some combat elements.

Squidshellion wants some help with some Home Alone style encounters.

Ask a GM:  What if a vampire in your world was prevented from drinking any blood? - KiesoTheStoic

Use That Spell! Zephyr Strike!

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Next Session Help:

Jakemp1 asks “what are the pros and cons to having long hair?” A player used a magic comb to turn themselves into a pink Cousin Itt for the day mid-dungeon and needs some consequences.

Impossible-Wind9068 wants to turn the player’s ship into a mimic slowly over time and give hints / foreshadow the occurrence.

Ask a GM: AtticusSPQR wants to know if using a timer in real life to get players to make decisions is "assholey."

Search the Room!  Luck Blade!

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Next Session Help:

TheGingerRogue has a situation where the players need to remove a curse, but they want to spice it up a little.

Snivythesnek wants to know, “How do you handle executions and scenarios where people should realistically die in one swoop?”

Ask a GM:

Can fairies get lycanthropy? Well can they?  Submitted by The-Amazing-Biderman

Use That Spell!  Enemies Abound

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Next Session Help:

CremedelaGem is running an “urgent city maze type dungeon” and needs some guidance.

WahookaTG wants to know, “How do I prevent players from dying in an unwinnable fight?”

Ask a GM:

DinoHunter64 is shifting his game entirely online and would love some tips/ tricks/ resources for how to do a virtual tabletop.

Use That Spell!  Unseen Servant

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Next Session Help:

WhackyNudle has a player that doesn’t appreciate having consequences for using Charm Person on a shopkeep. Should they change how they rule Charm Person to keep this player happy? We say no!

Minimum_Fee1105 needs some advice on running a collapsing dungeon. He just fell into it!

Ask a GM:

Timp1mandi wants to know, when should you provide an encounter or battlemap?

Use That Spell!  Contact Other Plane

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Next Session Help:

Tuckster786 wants to introduce a player as a traitor, but they don’t know it yet. Bad idea? Kind of.

Des___ wants a giant sandworm to eat the entire party and make it a wormy dungeon, but then what?

Ask a GM:

Realistic-March-5679 asks if they can create Yandu style arrows (from Guardians of the Galaxy) using the Piercer feat and Animate Objects.

Use That Spell!  Steel Wind Strike

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Next Session Help:

ChemicalWeather’s party left the cleric unconscious in a dragon’s lair and wants some ideas for reasons the dragons wouldn’t outright eat her so she can be saved.

DM_Mularki needs some advice if Heat Metal works on Constructs and Warforged.

Ask a GM:

neildegrasstokem wants to know, “If I True Polymorph a man into a wooly sheep, and someone shears it, is there any change to the man once dispelled?”

Search The Room!  Hat of Wizardry!

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Ep 50

Next Session Help:

Jvosika is running a campaign where an entire village pledges loyalty to the players and start following them. What sort of shenanigans should they be up to?

Tobi6000 has a botanic science lab that can give the players some sweet upgrades, but he isn’t sure what those should be.

Ask a GM:

LivingIn3d wants to know how monsters and enemies should attack. Weakest one first? Most intimidating? Closest?

Use That Spell!  Vampiric Touch

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Next Session Help:

Dccowboy has a situation where the Axe of Alertness will always be alert. Will this render it useless?

Marshmallow049 asks “How to make dangerous poison in a world with magic?”

Ask a GM: 

BeginningEngineer95 wants to know some ways to use a smart device to control the lighting for proper ambience. Alexa roll for initiative!

Use That Spell!  Alter Self

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